Yes

All over the place…

Jokes on you, my system is (mostly) -O3

Usually KDE, but I’m messing around with qtile atm.

I’d still recommend dual booting, just in case…

I’d say dual boot. Jumping ship from windows to linux without it is very hard, especially if you enjoy playing a windows-only game or rely on windows-only software. A virtual machine can work for some basic software, but you need to do GPU passt trough to the VM to be able to game at all, which is a… let’s just say not insignificant amount of messing around and configuring stuff.

Android studio?

Chimera Linux is also a pretty cool independent distro…

Natural scrolling is wrong. Mouse, touchpad, doesn’t matter, it’s wrong.

Most people do not know the meaning of the word “Feminism/Feminist” and use it to describe crazy people on twitter…

It’s kind of a bad habit of mine… yeah, i got no excuses

Did you just, not read the OP and come straight to this person’s comment to argue with them based off the least charitable interpretation?

Yeah, kinda

it’s a good pick

LMDE isn’t Debian. It’s based on it, but removes a lot of the headaches, found in Debian.

Not only that, installing flatpak is also a thing. PPAs also work differently on debian, compared to ubuntu… And if the beginner has too new of a hardware setup or wants to game at all, Debian is gonna throw them for a loop.

There is a difference between Debian and Debian-based. I wouldn’t recommend Debian itself, because it’s got quite a bit of post-install setup (installing sudo, setting up flatpak, installing network manager, that kind of stuff). Linux mint is one of my go-tos when it comes to new users though…

The best advice… Just use Linux more… It’s the only way to get familiar with it

Debian is a terrible choice for beginners

Mine’s an 8GB. At least for my use case (web development/design) it’s plenty…

I got this M3 air earlier this year… It’s also my only apple product and so far it’s been great. 0 driver issues, 0 slowdown, 0 screwing around. It just works…

1. GNOME has an entire extension ecosystem. Look up “gnome extension manager” on flathub.

2. Yes, Linux can be more problematic on some laptops. Especially ones with realtek wifi/Bluetooth or Nvidia/Intel hybrid graphics.

3. Yes, try EndeavorOS.

4. Linux gives you the full power to delete whatever, whenever. You can delete anything and everything you want without needing any workarounds.

5. No. Linux by default gives you root access. It’s a thing you just get. In fact you need it to update most* distros. You don’t need to “root” Linux. Root privileges are a given on most distros.

6. Install the other DE’s package from your distro’s repos, logout and the login interface should have an option to change your DE, the next time you login.

7. It’s… Complicated. TL;DR Wayland is the more modern display server that most distros and desktops are in the process of moving to. I’d suggest using it over X11, wherever possible. As for docker, that doesn’t really matter for desktop use.