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openSUSE Slowroll and Secureblue are my favorites ATM. Slowroll for gaming, Secureblue for mobile device. Both are hardened for security because that matters to me.

It is definitely a Firefox fork, the images of the UI are near identical to Firefox, and the one with addons shows the option to search addons.mozilla.org

Ubuntu is a corporate/popular distro. It wouldn’t make much sense to move to do as when it lacks much of the functionality of sudo and isnt in a memory safe language, which is Ubuntu’s goal with replacing user space software with Rust.

Sadly it only works on Google Pixel. I’d recommend LineageOS, but the images aren’t signed so you can’t lock the bootloader.

GrapheneOS

eOS is just Android, so Android apps work.

That aside, eOS has a history of being often behind on security patches and updates, so it is highly recommend to avoid it.

Sad but understandable. I saw the donation button but I don’t have spare money atm.

Thank god. It is a fantastic game.

glibc == gnu C library

It is the standard C library used on GNU/Linux systems. Basically, it is very important. I’ve also heard that the code is a rats nest. I wish standard distros would move to musl libc.

Manjaro was buggy in my experience (used it for a year), and seems to be a well hated distro at this point. I am not suggesting that will fix your issues, just mentioning. I had a friend switch from Windows to Linux for the first time and Bazzite was the one that worked the best for their Nvidia card. As the other commenter said, dual booting on the same drive with Windows makes it a headache to manage.

Yeah, I’ve seen them called guard or guardian models.

And I dont deny that. There are a lot of programmers, and not all had eduction on designing secure software. Even with the knowledge and experience, what if the programmer is tired or makes a similar mistake. Only one mess-up away from a potential vulnerability or instability of the app and system as a whole. I need more experience with C to form a better opinion.

I do not agree with the Dev who stepped down.

But on the topic of C, I wouldn’t measure the quality of a language based on its adoption. C is a relatively old language and therefore benefits from getting wide-use before other languages were born. It will never die because who would ever want to rewrite every project in existence in another language.

Memory safety is very important since it has consistently been one of the largest sources of vulnerabilities throughout software history.

C is not a bad language, but it has flaws. Performance at the cost of safety is not a good trade-off in most scenarios. There is no such thing as a “perfect programmer” who won’t make mistakes.

Run FreeTube on Linux. It is an alternative YouTube client that is open source and ad free. YT sometimes changes which could break it temporarily. It has been working for me for a year now.

Basically, its a customization of Fedora Workstation with Steam, Proton GE, and some system tweaks for better gaming support.

Linux Mint is built on top of Ubuntu, which itself was a fork of Debian. Ubuntu is not something I would call a “clean base”. It is clunky, slow to adopt new technologies, and very (Canonical) opinionated. Linux Mint actively works against its Ubuntu base by removing Snap and other Canonical weirdness.

Tumbleweed and Leap offer the option to add or remove ANY package from your system before you even install it through their GUI installer, actually 2 GUI package choosers for either simple or advanced users. I don’t think it is accurate to suggest that Linux Mint is minimalist with its packages, especially when comparing to openSUSE distros.

I will not argue against Linux Mint being user friendly, it is pretty good. But “not bloated”, especially when comparing against openSUSE, is inaccurate.

How is Linux Mint less bloated? Linux Mint also suffers from poor Wayland support and isnt a (semi-)rolling release distro like Fedora or Tumbleweed. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone other than people who are tech iliterate. Even then, I would still suggest VanillaOS or Fedora Workstation. I used Mint as my daily driver for a year and it was fine, nothing amazing.

Bazzite is a good distro, I convinced a friend to move to Linux from Windows 10 and Bazzite was the only one that worked well with their nvidia hardware.

Fixed

Where? Have a link?

Since SteamOS isnt available on desktop, check out these distros instead:

Bazzite (the best option)

Nobara (another good option)