It’s between konsole and kitty for me. Both are great.

Chimera Linux is actually really nice. Been daily driving it for a little bit, and as long as you don’t have an Nvidia GPU, it should work just fine.

I’ve tried FreeBSD and in my experience, it was just like clunkier, worse documented linux. I specifically remember having issues with wifi drivers not working and drivers as a whole being a huge pain. I’ve also tried setting up OpnSense in a VM (for testing purposes) and that was just as clunky.

I’ve also thought of trying TrueNAS core… But the way I see it, it’s just clunkier TrueNAS scale without proper virtualization and with more limitations.

And those my thoughts on FreeBSD. Clunky.

E: All of that and it’s just licensed under the wrong license… I like the BSD license, I just don’t think it works for an OS.

Chimera Linux. You’d think that a distro using its own bsd-like userspace and dinit instead of systemd is janky and unusable, but it’s been one of the most painless experiences I’ve had.

Genuinely recommend trying it if you don’t have an Nvidia GPU.

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.

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

How to choose your 1st distro:

-Have 1 monitor: Linux Mint

-Have more than 1 monitor: Fedora

-Have a potato PC: AntiX

At 1st it was arch, used it for about a year and a half, but dropped it after they broke grub. Then I went to fedora for a while, which I like a lot, however I’m running Gentoo atm

I wouldn’t virtualize windows with 8gb ram. Also, gaming on a VM normally is not possible, unless you want to pass a GPU to it, which isn’t possible on a laptop. I’d say dual boot. Have a your main linux system where you do your work stuff and a windows one for 2 games that don’t run on linux. Though, unless you play those few games, you’ll probably be fine even without windows, as most games tend to run fine on linux these days.

You know that RedHat controls Xorg, right? Like… X11 is a RedHat thing.

I dislike Wayland

Why?

RedHat bad

What does that have to do with Wayland?

RedHat BAD!!!1!1!1!!!

Average Wayland hater

I’m not usually one to blame the distro but… as another comment here has stated, “Most stable manjaro experience”. Try EndeavorOS, it’s manjaro but not bad.

Try Vesktop, it’s had seamless audio screenshare on pipewire for a while

Unless you are using like a 64GB drive, not really. Ig flatpaks are as bit more annoying to start from the terminal

Haiku is cool, though I have a hard time believing you actually use it for something…

I played Apex legends on a VM, before it worked on linux and never really had issues with AC. I’d just say that if you wanna play games with an intrusive AC on a VM, you should just accept the risk and roll with it…

Just… Install arch?

Definitely go with an external nvme enclosure

Just use TrueNAS scale