worst case you can install w10 once now and years from now you can just run a Windows live usb if needed

I don’t like MSI as a manufacturer, but compatibility is not a real concern if not muleheaded about it.

“so far” is not a meaningful timeframe, give it half a year…

Basically no one is using powershell on Linux. zsh is popular and i’m using fish.

This not yet scary, scary starts when malicious actors take over orphaned AUR packages…

That’s incredible.

Imo whatever problem you had is probably way easier to solve than managing an Arch derivative medium term… Anyway I wish you best of luck.

Bunsenlab Linux I suppose, but do know if it’s the single core atom version web browsing will be very slow and YT will only work in 240p after spending 10 minutes loading and you gotta use Chrome.

Mine has a Windows XP dualboot for retro gaming and Office 2007 flies on this thing. (Though it’s not very compatible with newer versions of office)

Retro gaming is the best use case including ps1 emulation. I’ve been thinking of putting native dos on it, because some dos games are lagging in dosbox. (like imperium galactica 1 and even Prehistoric 2…)

Bluefin/Aurora is the most sane option in that space, stock Silverblue offerings are lacking a few essentials.

Because Linux +firefox is like a fingerprinting wet dream, I may be the only one in my locale. (maybe not anymore, but yeah)

Also Librewolf by default reports Win+Firefox.

Statcounter considers me a Win user due to the Win user agent I’m using, this is not a rare behavior in the Linux space…

Probably not significantly less secure than Xorg itself, I wouldn’t mind using in your place. DE security is usually not a huge problem, if someone can exploit these vulnerabilities usually you are quite bonked.

Remember most of what happens on screen is xorg, the wm is a simply interacting with xorg and other parts of your DE are simple user level programs like the panel etc…

These days it’s mainly snap and how you can type apt install and the system will do snap install instead, for firefox for example.

Read the arch wiki if you are in doubt, go through manual install once for experience, follow the arch wiki guide for that too.

Arch wiki is life, YT guides are basically useless for this.

This true for most people, but Calc is limiting for certain use cases.

New users shouldn’t be recommended to use Arch flavors.

it’s embarrassing but for me it’s thinkfan. Instead I wrote my own solution in bash.

I don’t think it would be great for a pie hole on a gigabit connection. (if you have s slow connection then it’s good ofc)However there are use cases it’s good for. Print server, smb server, kitchen radio with Pyradio, retro gaming etc

Immutable distros like Silverblue or Bazzite are the only path I see that can work for normies. However flatpak itself has to mature more, theming anomalies need to be dealt with somehow for example.

Mint is only good to ease a technically inclined person into the linux world.

You have to reboot yes, however only once. The step where you boot into your snapshot is redundant.

You are making it unnecessarily difficult for yourself. Rolling back a snapshot that you made before the intentional messing around is less effort than rebooting twice for seemingly no reason. Booting into a snapshot is not sandboxing, it’s not an added layer of security against a malicious package.

I assume CUDA will operate with the proprietary user space driver.