I have been using Linux forever. I’ve used Red hat, SUSE, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake, Ubuntu and now Arch with KDE. Part of the fun is trying different distros.

I’ve currently settled with vanilla Arch with KDE (Gnome get it together) and a bunch of flatpaks for user software stuff. I really like rolling releases these days. Just keep the core install minimal and tight.

Also the Arch forum community is top notch.

With that said I would start with package manager and desktop GUI you like and then go from there.

Hopefully in Arch already

Article for the sake of having an article.

Pretty good! I’m liking kde. It’s very user friendly and you didn’t have to tweak the crap out of it.

Depends. Ha ha

RPMs at work, Debs for my RaspberryPi devices. PacMan (Arch) and Flatpaks for home.

Flatpaks are great. I install my core os and gui with the base package management. All my user side packages are Flatpaks. I then use Flatseal to lock down and modify Flatpaks as needed. What’s great is running programs like wine without installing a ton of dependencies and then locking the install from parts of my computer I don’t want it to have access to.

I really like Gnome Boxes but they’re no 3d acceleration for Windows installs yet, right?

Fork time!

Isn’t this like complaining about what type of toilet paper somebody uses? Who gives a shit?

Flatseal is good, just not official.

Steam Deck is using Flatpaks so…

Endlessly reading on social media that is not a good from Linux “gurus”. LOL

It’s been great for me, but I wish it had a official gui for permissions management.

The issue with Linux is getting middle management to support it. I’m my experience is based on them laying you off and hiring somebody else. Linux is great but management needs support contracts.

Angry Linus is the best.

Are there more than just Steam Deck?

Nope. I have to know how fix everyone else’s computer.

This is like removing a safety feature in your car. Like removing seatbelts or maybe anti-lock brakes.

Bottles works pretty well

Just get whatever. Part of the fun is hacking it to get it working.

I have a cheap Acer laptop with AMD and it works great. I’m dual booting with Windows. I do remember having to struggle with the install though. I had to turn off secure boot and can’t remember what else. Good luck.