Ex-technologist, now an artist. My art: http://www.eugenialoli.com/
Here are your choices to try out yourself and see if they can do what you need:
And for Android:
My husband, who mostly codes in assembly these days (he’s mostly retired so his hobby is old atari, amstrad, and spectrum computers), went from VSCode, to Sublime, to now Kate. He prefers to use 100% open source apps, without strings attached. VSCode is nice, but it has lots of weird stuff in it that aren’t necessarily up to the spirit of open source. So Kate works perfectly for him, although VSCodium would do well as well (it’s just that Kate has better syntax highlighters for his weird assembly). Also VSCode/ium is using about 250 MB of RAM, while Kate about 45 (and Sublime only about 32).
I use Linux since 1998 or 99 (can’t remember precisely). I’ve tried everything. From Arch to Gentoo and RH to Debian. If you want stability, you go with either Debian, or Linux Mint. I personally use Debian-Testing (Trixie) on my main PC (it’s very stable, unlike Sid or Arch or other rolling releases), and Mint on my laptops. I’ve found peace that way.
That’s the point. That systemd is convoluted, so a gui could help. And yes, for everything. :)
I personally would like a systemd gui. There have been several attempts in the past, but none is maintained.
OnlyOffice is the best I think…
That’s why I don’t use rolling releases (except debian-testing, which is actually stable). Because these kinds of things are bound to happen 1-5 times a year.
Wayland is not as advanced as android’s system, so i don’t see why not use android’s. The license for it is fine.
Unlike what people reply here out of ignorance, your thinking is correct, meaning, that Google has already done the hard work to create a TRULY modern OS, with proper usability, security, and yes, a way better compositor than wayland (in fact, android has the best compositor in the world, compared to ANY OS). A properly modified desktop OS based on it (better than Samsung’s DeX for example), that is also able to run normal Linux apps, would be a huge winner.
I’m using Cinnamon, I find it better when using a customized Cinnamenu applet (instead of the default app launcher).
For Windows users, Linux Mint is the best option.
As a watercolor artist, who sells prints, the printing was a bigger problem for me.
Anticheat is kernel compromise. No one should be using games that use that, or OSes that allow it.
As for fulfillment, unless you need very specific apps to do your job, I’m sure it can be fulfilling with the right DE and distro. For me, I’m using Linux since 1998, and I still prefer Mint over Arch, for example. It just works.
That was true in the past. But in the last 10 years people have stalled their PC upgrades. That’s the real reason why they don’t move to Win11, because they don’t want to buy a new PC. And that’s where Linux is going to get that market from MS.
The only reason I don’t like snaps is because they don’t include all functionality. For example, I couldn’t print with Gimp and Darktable snaps.
That is normal in software development. System76 thinks that they will reach v1.0 early next year, but in reality, this won’t mature for another 2 years or so.
Better apt quick!
He’s not a Russian asset, he simply feels that if the whole world is run by tyrants like him and Putin, then he would somehow he could do whatever he wanted, because it would just be as simple as cutting a deal/buying the privilege (same with the Trump mentality). Musk is the embodiment of why becoming a billionaire needs to be outlawed.
Honestly, I’d go with ubuntu, just because lots of llm tools work with it, and because it has good support for dgpus. I personally use debian, but for your case, i’d go with ubuntu.