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Pretty good unless your game doesnt enable anticheat support for Linux like the battlefield games or fortnite for example. Performance per game is either on par or better than Windows. Game support can be checked on https://protondb.com/

Varia is a download manager written using GTK4. Simple, easy, and best of all speeds up downloads significantly on most sites. There also is a extension for Chromium and Firefox, but I haven’t tried them.

Website’s style breaks without 3rd party scripts permission. Not that that’s indicative of the quality of the distro, but I don’t like websites that depend heavily on Google, Cloudflare, and external CDNs for scripts since it makes the website less secure.

I’d pick openSUSE Slowroll. Easy, monthly updates, comes with YaST system tooling.

It will have some challenges but the documentation is decent. If security matters to you, it has better protections than any other Linux distro (Qubes OS isn’t technically a distro). If you have a problem, first check to see if it is a Secureblue issue then check if it is an upstream Fedora atomic issue.

Secureblue eliminates many attack vectors. It is also recommended by PrivacyGuides. Worth trying if you can find davinci resolve as a Flatpak or Fedora RPM.

I personally like GNOME/GTK. I think it is easy, but I recommend deviating from the default. The extension “Dash to Dock” is good for a former Mac user because it makes all the pinned apps viewable without pressing the super key.

What I will say about KDE is it can be whatever you want it to be. It is feature rich and its customization is unparalleled. You can customize it into looking like MacOS. I personally think Qt apps look ugly, which is why I go GNOME. KDE also has there ‘K’ naming scheme for apps, which can be confusing to new users who are looking for “Text Editor” when they should be search for “KWrite”.

Both are good. Maybe set up two VMs, one with KDE customized a little to look familiar to a Mac user, and the other GNOME. See whether she has a preference for the look and feel of each, especially the default apps because she will end up interacting with them a lot.

Alienware should be Dell I think. Is there a security tab in the BIOS?

Secure Boot settings should be under the Security tab in the BIOS.

You should be able to enroll the Secure Boot key for Bazzite and keep it enabled. Instructions: https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/secure_boot/

I am using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I’ll try enabling Wayland using the environment variable for a game when I get on later.

I dont get flickering on my OLED on GNOME with VRR. Odd.

It requires rootful containers, risqué.

Ubuntu Touch is still a Linux distro. I was referring to how Linux-like the experience is.

Not really a Linux distro. Based on Gentoo but not really a Linux distro, just like Android.

Zorin is too walled off IMO. Too many features locked in Pro version.

Fedora KDE edition or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed/Slowroll. Otherwise could try Aurora.

I avoid Ubuntu base because it is slow to update packages, and the inclusion of Snap packages are a no from me.

Probably just has it run at login in the background.

WEAK. WASTE 17HRS AND UNCOUNTABLE AMOUNTS OF DATA BY FUCKING AROUND. 40 BILLION SUCH CASES!

Idk if it is related but I found that my LCD monitor dims through the GNOME setting, but just not my OLED.