Because your argument was
When Linux mint has been here. Chromeos has been here. Steamos isn't special. And normal people can absolutely use the options that were here before it.
Correct.
That's NAWT TRUE.
Yet... it DOESN'T. Because Wayland is FUCKED IN THE FACE.
I love how RHELDOCS-20023 is less informative than no documentation at all. I challenge anyone to determine whether it was written by an Indian or a (slightly more human, more human-like reasoning) AI. My money is on Indian.
I booted a game from steam with PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 to force hdr and it caused my controller to stop working. Truly a magical piece of software.
honestly it's also great for old people. And people who have a PHD in some esoteric field that constitutes the entirety of their knowledge.
It will 100% have passwords and usernames stored in plaintext and fed to AI raw. I guarantee you that this by the end of the year we'll see the first major case of AI leaking actual password databases since you can already prompt some of them to shit out stuff they are not supposed to. I know of at least one very large company that uses RHEL as its standard employee workstation operating system, and there are already courses & certs that study pentesting AI & ML applications, so it's only a matter of time until someone somewhere finds a way to exploit them in the wild.
Depends on the user and the era. I was pro-GNOME until 3.40, but I got on the GNOME 3 train before the Mint spergs forked Cinnamon. I switched to DWM because the GNOME fags started making random, meaningless UI changes (regressions) and I realized it wasn't going to get better any more. I'd generally recommend LXDE these days unless you're a poweruser.
You sure you didn't mean Plasma? Seems like you meant that since you mentioned Spectacle.
He switched from Gnome to Plasma and accidentally called it Proton because he had games on the brain. Everyone hates Gnome but it's the default in most distros because it has a consistent release schedule that helps with distro development.
Gnome 2 was great, especially in that early KDE4 era where that was a buggy mess.
Not even the Gnome devs use Gnome.
Don't psyche yourself out. I set my 70+ year-old father up with Cinnamon on a Raspberry Pi 4 for a DC-powered rig for his camper and he's been almost entirely been fine with it. Had to show him how to change audio sources once, but his new solution to audio trouble has no issues. He only uses web browsers on the rig, though!
I feel like I should rate you deviant for this...
Libreoffice and Onlyoffice (not Openoffice) are basically drop-in replacements for Office365, you can try them on Windows before you switch if you'd like. If you need Adobe you need Mac or Windows, although things like Photopea or Gimp can do image manipulation. I've heard Photopea is better than Gimp but I don't know if that's still true for Gimp 3. Kdenlive can do video editing, but it's not great, Davinci Resolve is on Linux, but it doesn't work on every system. Single player games mostly work great on Linux through Proton, and I'm pretty sure older games often work better on Linux since Proton is more compatible with older Windows versions than Windows 10/11 are.
