I am glad that you are at peace with your workstations now, but just for updates on current situation in Linux Desktop world:

1. Mostly the same, but now you can just turn switchable graphics off, so to only use Nvidia.
2. Now we can use stable pipewire which is 3x times better
3. Have not seen a delayed arch update problem in a while.
4. Now it’s fine. In Build steam browser still sucks tho, and turning hardware acceleration is an ass ton of problems even now.
5. Depending on your laptop and configs, some Linux oriented laptops can live for 15 hours on stock
6. It’s easy with Cups and HP drivers, even trou Wi-Fi
7. Now there are tools that can configure external monitor management. Also, Wayland is good with these types without configs
8. We still don’t have Microsoft Office
9. Flash works with emulators like Ruffles

Glad that Linux have noticeable progress in its lifespan

I was installing Linux normally, but messed up the partitioning, so instead of root, boot/efi and /home. I mounted root to Efi, so every change to Root doubled to EFI and so one. I wasn’t aware of this until some months ago my /dev/sda1 with / was over the space limit. So I went to check, noticed that /boot/efi is like 30 GiB in size, casually wrote “rm -rf boot/efi/” and because my root and efi were mostly linked and copied each other, the command run as if I ran “rm -rf /” and borked my install.

Be careful with partitioning, or better yet, don’t partition manually ar 2am