Chimera Linux on the way home about it’s just a little bit of a side of the house for a while now I have to

Depends on the distribution. And how used you are to windows.

Imo, for the easiest possible experience, choose fedora and use it sorta like desktop android.

I’m biased towards TrueNAS scale, because in my experience, it’s been really rock solid, running on bare metal. It also allows you to setup things like Nextcloud/Tailscale/ a lot more, in 1 click from their “app store”. It’s also got all the virtualization bells and whistles. As for ZFS, again, just like everything else, it’s been rock solid and setting up a ZFS pool is pretty much done for you when you install TN Scale.

As for remote access, I’ve always personally done it via a local Wireguard server and can’t really compare it to tailscare or whatever cloudflare does… Because I’ve never used those.

If you need a GPU just for encoding, go on the 2nd hand market and pick up a used Nvidia RTX 2000/3000 card. Intel Arc could also work, but it’s a bit quirky afaik…

Bash

Generally, no. M$ office has some pretty invasive DRM, so your best bet to running it on linux is to run it on a windows virtual machine

Truer words have never been spoken before

It’s kind of a bad habit of mine… yeah, i got no excuses

Did you just, not read the OP and come straight to this person’s comment to argue with them based off the least charitable interpretation?

Yeah, kinda

it’s a good pick

LMDE isn’t Debian. It’s based on it, but removes a lot of the headaches, found in Debian.

Not only that, installing flatpak is also a thing. PPAs also work differently on debian, compared to ubuntu… And if the beginner has too new of a hardware setup or wants to game at all, Debian is gonna throw them for a loop.

There is a difference between Debian and Debian-based. I wouldn’t recommend Debian itself, because it’s got quite a bit of post-install setup (installing sudo, setting up flatpak, installing network manager, that kind of stuff). Linux mint is one of my go-tos when it comes to new users though…

The best advice… Just use Linux more… It’s the only way to get familiar with it

Debian is a terrible choice for beginners

1. GNOME has an entire extension ecosystem. Look up “gnome extension manager” on flathub.

2. Yes, Linux can be more problematic on some laptops. Especially ones with realtek wifi/Bluetooth or Nvidia/Intel hybrid graphics.

3. Yes, try EndeavorOS.

4. Linux gives you the full power to delete whatever, whenever. You can delete anything and everything you want without needing any workarounds.

5. No. Linux by default gives you root access. It’s a thing you just get. In fact you need it to update most* distros. You don’t need to “root” Linux. Root privileges are a given on most distros.

6. Install the other DE’s package from your distro’s repos, logout and the login interface should have an option to change your DE, the next time you login.

7. It’s… Complicated. TL;DR Wayland is the more modern display server that most distros and desktops are in the process of moving to. I’d suggest using it over X11, wherever possible. As for docker, that doesn’t really matter for desktop use.

Windows 11

I’ve imaged an entire 128GB SSD to my NAS…

Wayland for better or for worse is still in development, it’s actively changing and a lot of developers can’t (or don’t wanna bother) keeping up…

Do not use PlayOnLinux, it’s been dead for a long time. Use lutris/bottles instead

I want you to imagine an electronic device. Congratulations, you’ve imagined a device that runs some form of Linux…