That’s because Kate is an IDE, not a note taking app. KWrite is the text editor

I truly believe Nobara to be better suited for gaming than Bazzite. I don’t really get the hype. But then again, to each his own distro.

To me it’s Zorin. It’s the easiest to use when you come from Windows

If you want to repair your computer, look at the specs of RAM first. If it’s LPDDR then you know it’s not gonna be repairable because it would be soldered. If it’s DDR the computer might be good to repair and upgrade.

Laptop tends to be harder to repair in general. Those who can be repaired tend to be costly.

If you want to know if it can be repaired and to what extent, connect to a VPN in France and browse the models. They are required by law to display a repairability index so you know how much of your laptop can be replaced and how easily. The higher the number, the better.

My recommendation would be to buy a Dell or a Thinkpad. Those things perform well and tend to last longer, even when they tend to be costly when new. MSI is a shitshow, don’t fall for their laptop scam.

If you want to limit or stop the wiretapping go for a Linux distro (Zorin for anything or Nobara for gaming) rather than Windows.

No it just works as long as you install the drivers…

Linux is free…

To have the most secure machine possible, you might need a hardened kernel but you absolutely need to have SELinux (or equivalent) rules set up.

The easiest way to have a go at this would be to install OpenSuSE (any version will do, they all ship with SELinux ootb) and follow guides on how to setup SELinux permissions.

More than the camera : 24hrs of battery life tops is what you should expect.

I… Well… Thank you !

I have been soloing Linux for 5 years now.

But tbh, I have had almost no issues regarding suspend/hibernate on Windows. On Linux, on the other hand… For starters, hibernate never worked for me.

He said he’s not a tech wizard. Arch, even with archinstall, asks you to be at least an apprentice tech wizard.

You can expect your computer to function properly.

You have had many answers, all of them revolving around Debian / Ubuntu. Yet it doesn’t give the “like-windows” esperience. It’s More like “slightly windows-flavored Linux”.

For a more Windows-like Linux, which helped me transition easily because I retained muscle memory, is Zorin OS.

There is nothing locked outside Pro version that you can’t get by installing it manually :)

Bro is thick. He just wants to hear sorry bro, can’t be done to justify the fact that he’ll be doing this by hand, because he wants to.

Syncthing has been discontinued on android (but a fork exists)

You should be able to do it. I dual booted nobara / arch / windows in the beginning

None ! That’s the greatest thing. Take the time to read the welcome message (you know that window that come when you first boot any distro) and follow any instruction. It should work out of the box.

Okay, I had the same problem with a 3060 laptop. The easy answer is : your next distro should be Nobara.

These errors happen because your computer does not use your Nvidia GPU but the AMD one. There is no hardware acceleration.

In Nobara, everything comes preinstalled and preconfigured. I didn’t have those problems anymore.

(If you fancy masochism, you can also go the Arch or NixOS way)

In the case of NixOS, the question would then be : “How much pain in the ass is it to install NixOS, really ?”