I’ve been using Linux between 2018-2020 and on and off between 2020-2023 and regained daily status on November last year. It’s been great, but some things like lacking a proper office replacement (Only Office (FOSS), FreeOffice (Free as in beer), and WPS Office (Free as in beer) are all getting closer) are a bit limiting. Some stuff like lacking VRR and HDR were annoying (getting fixed now) and gaming has been improving. Game compatibility sometimes is a bit of a sore spot, but it’s been getting ever easier and honestly, haven’t had issues with NVIDIA drivers under wayland
Fedora isn’t all that easy for a complete noob to install NVIDIA proprietary drivers
They still haven’t an arm64 version :( such a build was apparently considered but ultimately not made
Hanna Montana Linux, just for giggles
How recent is your computer? Debian based distros, due to their focus on stability tend to have quite old packages, namely kernels
Manjaro has had a few flaky things happen with their organisation, so I wouldn’t trust them, Endeavour OS is apparently a decent alternative to them.
OpenSuse is apparently pretty good, am yet to move to Linux for gaming (will next month when I build myself a new machine lol, might go with fedora, which is what I use on my laptop)
It’s about once a semester (the updates) and I’ve only personally seen one, but it was fairly painless. Regarding your other questions, no idea
Something with KDE would be ideal for you. I personally use fedora, as it has a very modern yet fairly stable software cycle with one major release every semester
Immich! Am still testing it, but it seems to have most features I need, like an iOS client with automatic backups and even server side face recognition ( your server naturally)
I think the FOSS drivers support it? https://mesamatrix.net/ Seems to say that it’s supported, ut I’m not sure
Fedora. Because it’s the best supported distro on Apple hardware :P (running asahi here)
Hopefully some of the money saved from paying Microsoft will be put in the hands of Libreoffice and Linux devs
Maybe on 40 with a bit of luck
Unfortunately, I have a Mac, so currently stuck with fedora asahi, and poor old KDE :P. Tho 6 is gonna be sooo good
I wanna see cosmic so much. The whole hybrid graphics thing looks sweet
Quite excited with cosmic! Seeing more competition in the DE space is always fun!
Can confirm! Proud M1 user of Fedora asahi remix! Check out asahilinux.org!
Im supposing you want some prebuilt, right?