“dear we have guests coming, bring it the fine china”

Mission center is the true task manager replacement

Tried this myself, performance differences are non existent. In fact I noticed more regressions on speedometer than improvements.

Don’t bother, use Floorp instead.

Just hold your breath silly

This, you should always default to your package manager for app installs. I believe it’s available on their Ubuntu repos

Linux mint is a really easy and simple starting point. Fedora and openSUSE tumbleweed are a tad more advanced but allow more selection on your desktop environment (mint uses cinnamon, while Fedora and SUSE have both KDE and Gnome options) and thus can potentially support things like variable refresh rate and, when it gets support from KDE later this year, HDR.

For peripherals, if it’s razor or Logitech, it’ll just work and have community apps made to configure them. I personally like Keychron’s stuff so that’s what I use and that’s fully Linux compatible, it does require some setup to work though. HDR is unsupported for the time being, but variable refresh (gsync/freesync) is in the KDE Plasma desktop environment under Wayland. On the topic of Wayland, if you want to make use of this new display protocol you’ll need an AMD graphics card, as NVIDIA has been slacking with their Linux drivers. NVIDIA is getting better but it’s not stable enough on Wayland for the laymen. In the case of only having an NVIDIA, X11 works fine, but it’s just missing some features.

Also you won’t need JavaScript, 90% of what you do will be through the GUI (depending on the distro), especially once you’re set up. I know Fedora needs to enable rpmFusion, NVIDIA repos if on NVIDIA, and install codecs for hardware accelerated playback. Mint doesn’t have these issues for the most part, though you’ll want to enable flatpak’s and consider disabling snaps. Mint already includes a graphical installer for NVIDIA and includes the codecs needed for hardware accelerated playback

My sweet summer child, I will see you in 5 years when Valorant cheating is as bad as CS:GO cheating at its peak.

Kernel AC circumventation will only improve, as there’s many cheaters putting money in this technology. In 5 years this stuff will be commonplace and mean that these solutions will be ineffective.

I also like hearing good news about Linux. With how negative social media can be hearing some good news, especially about something I like is just a generally nice change of pace.

Hopefully talking about it more will interest more people in the project and possibly interest more people in contributing

Touch typing does in fact require teaching. In the UK alone, only 20% of people can touch type fluently (https://touchtypeit.co.uk/just-how-many-people-can-touch-type). In the US, I saw a stat somewhere that was even lower at 10%, but I can’t find it again. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s accurate though.

There’s no need to learn cursive, it serves no functional purpose that typing cannot match. Other than your signature, which… you have to learn how to do separate to cursive anyway to protect yourself from fraud by making it as unique and as difficult to replicate as possible.

So you are incapable of writing print, at all? 😐

This, Amazon gift cards can be used online to buy any gift cards you want. It’s our go to gift for that reason in our family

I highly recommend you try Linux Mint or Fedora, both are simple to use, stable, and well supported.

I personally use Fedora for development and gaming, but you might enjoy mint more for your use case

Only office is what I use for school and it’s excellent, otherwise the full MS suite is available in the browser.

Highly recommend against Manjaro for anyone for any use case

See: https://manjarno.pages.dev/

I can corroborate the article from my personal experience, Manjaro is a terrible OS with constant stability issues

Manjaro user?

You need the game scope session, which there’s only a package for Nobara and I think Arch too but don’t quote me on that

And the session will require you to log out, which can be a massive pain in the ass.

This, waydroid is excellent, I use it all the time

Are we not intelligent?

Well… there’s an argument to be made there.