I mean I get your point, but it seems like at the current point in time, "Gaming" distros also happen to be the distros that produce the least amount of weird issues and headaches for someone new to Linux, especially if you're on Nvidia. Bazzite in particular has been incredibly smooth sailing in a way I've seen no other distro achieve so far. And it does have a non-Gaming sibling distro if you don't want that stuff.
The y axis doesn't start at 0, making it look like the change has been a lot more drastic than it actually was (even though it's still very bad). I think that's what they're referring to
if you run into any weird edge case issues it's much more likely that someone else has already been there and discovered solutions
While that is true, the amount of those weird edge cases that you'll get varies wildly between distros. In my experience so far on a somewhat comparable rig to OP, Bazzite has been the only one that actually just worked out of the box and had not a single hickup, while any other distro I've tried (Pop, Fedora and Arch) all had several issues that required troubleshooting.
So, I guess, for someone willing to actually understand Linux, learn, and troubleshoot issues themselves, your advice is the way to go, but for the relative who wants their system to just work and would call me anyway at any sign of trouble, I'm recommending Bazzite (or Aurora, I guess) all the way
You could try Davinci Resolve. It's great, professional-grade software, runs natively on Linux, and has a very generous free version and an inexpensive, one-time purchase studio version.
No, not while the system is running. The base-layer of the OS is fully read-only.
An update doesn't write to the existing system, it creates a new one that will be switched to on next reboot. So the current system is not actually changed, hence the term immutability. This has two benefits:
atomic updates: either the upgrade is successful and you switch over to the new system, or it isn't and you stay on the untouched current system. There's no way to end up in a broken OS because an upgrade went sideways.
rollback: the old version stays untouched on disk, so even if the upgrade was successful but something still turns out to be broken after you boot into it, you can just switch back to the old, known-working system
In my Linux experience so far, Bazzite is the first time things have actually just worked out of the box and I haven't had to fix a single weird issue
It's immutable with atomic updates, so much lower likelihood of the base system getting messed up, and it's super easy to roll back to previous versions if something still manages to go wrong
Updates happen fully automatically in the background, you don't even notice it
You don't ever need to touch the terminal in normal usage. Everything is set up so that you can find any software a normie would need through the built-in app store. Flatpaks are great
If you object to the gaming focus, there's a variant that's just for regular desktop use and doesn't have the gaming stuff preinstalled, but otherwise comes with all the same benefits
The one thing I'll give you is that it's a young distro and hasn't proven itself to be reliable and still available in the long term, but honestly, given all the other benefits, I'll take that chance
wouldn't RGB already include different temps of white?
Well yes, but actually no. You can produce white-looking light with just RGB, but the quality is going to be shit. Sunlight is made up of the whole spectrum of visible wavelengths, while an RGB will only produce a much sparser spectrum with strong peaks at green, red and blue, and not much else. Looking directly into the light you might not be able to tell, but once the light bounces off colored objects things start looking weird compared to natural light. That's what rgbww lights are fixing by adding wider-spectrum white LEDs into the mix. For white lights, there is a number called the Color Rendering Index (CRI) that tells you how closely a light's output spectrum resembles natural sunlight. CRI 100 is perfect sunlight, less than CRI 80 is already pretty crappy looking light.
Heard a lot of praise for it and tried to test it the other day, but noped right back out when just trying to create a folder in the dock was horribly buggy and repeatedly resulted in having a duplicate of one of the app icons in it showing on the home screen, weirdly overlapping the "at a glance" widget, and when I tried to fix it the folder just disappeared. Not sure if I was doing something wrong, but that wasn't very confidence inspiring. Stock Pixel 7, so it's not like I'm using a particularly unusual setup either
Hey I'm not saying getting on planes is unproblematic. But nuance is still important. Having a ring camera is specifically and actively harmful, and not doing it immediately improves things. The impact that any individual or a small group of people can have is magnitudes higher than by not flying. Things can be different levels of bad and pretending they aren't doesn't help anyone
Okay but in that case, at least the ones you go on are different from the ones dropping bombs. You're not enabling the bomb-dropping by getting on a plane
Gonna second this, judging from your other comments, you will very much like this game (just don't confuse it with Outer Worlds). Go in as blind as you can, but if you feel like you're just not "getting" it and at risk of bouncing off, this video might help you: https://youtu.be/msABa06aiT0
A feature that will not do anything unless you explicitly press a button to start using it is quite literally opt-in, though? Opt-in doesn't mean "I won't even know the feature exists without hunting through the settings". It just means that it won't start doing things without your consent. Presenting a way to provide that consent in a more visible place than buried deeply in the settings does not make it opt-out. It might be a bit annoying to you, but it has no effect on your user choice or privacy, especially if there's also a way to globally hide it and any other features like it, including new ones that might be added in the future.
Ah, okay, gotcha. Yeah that's fair. Not something I've ever really used, so wasn't aware of that. Your comment read to me as if Windows as a whole just didn't support drag&drop.
Or maybe you're overestimating the amount of people who actually used that. Spending effort on something that less than maybe 1% of users actually use and that is not load bearing to any important workflows is hard to argue for when you're a corp that is only concerned about its own bottom line. It's a pretty rational business decision, even if you (and I) disagree with it.
That's a bit outdated by now, Störerhaftung doesn't apply anymore for other people's action on your WiFi