once it’s all up and running you’re going to need to be comfortable in the terminal to sort things out.

The tagline of the distro is “A terminal-centric distro with a vibrant and friendly community at its core” So I’m not sure that is something to complain about, and is by design of their team.

To me it isn’t designed as a beginner distro just a preconfigured arch with a nice gui installer and defaults that work for nearly everyone.

Unless your buying a superspeed pci-e gen 4 drive you really don’t even need a heatsink for most drives.

Im in the same boat, I like my pixel 6 pro, but less about device issues, I’ve had my fair share of them. To me google has left me pretty sour, and as someone who has been a huge android and was a fan of Google services. I just can’t give a company my money when they cancel and sell off the services that I loved.

Pretty sure I’ll be buying my first iPhone if I like the looks of the new 15.

I don’t recommend galliumos anymore, it is an abandoned project and hasn’t seen development since 2021.

If your Chromebook is compatible you can flash a full ROM bios and convert your Chromebook to a normal laptop and run full Linux or depending on the device windows 10/11.

https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices

Wouldn’t it be easier to just view the cameras through the interface of your CCTV recording software? I personally use Shinobi for recording, and run Frigate for object detection and notifications through home assistant.