Seriously I can’t help it to see it in any other way. At the least I’m trying my best to not to be the part of it.

But it is really tough to live with a conscious.

Are you talking about the .keep files?

If you are looking for stability with latest updates, then Gentoo. But I won’t recommend it to a distro hopper.

Besides than Arch and Mint are my general recommendation.

• At the least Nvidia hardware gets full support for Linux. Which in turn would help me run Wayland on daily bases.
• Ease at implementing secure boot for Linux.
• Torification/I2P being used as standard to use and adapt applications running on linux for internet access.

Its a repost from linuxmemes IIRC.

Rsync

Is the EFI entry available to boot into windows? Did you made a new, separate ESP for grub?

Well, now you know. That’s the reason I joined so many communities related to FOSS and Linux to get to know what cooking :)

IIRC Kubuntu/Ubuntu and DSL in 2003-5ish, and IIRC programs were compiled on the local machine back then.

I mostly sticked with Windows cause most of the 3D packages are on Windows (I’m a 3D generalist). Was exposed to centos variants while working in the industry.

After covid, I had a lot of time to get back onto GNU Linux.

On their site it says you need Western Digital Dashboard, which requires windows. I’m not sure/haven’t bothered myself as of now on Linux.

I’m using WD. No issues.

My experience with windows:

• Requies a monthly reinstall just to squeeze better performance.
• I pay for a licence and I still don’t own a copy of windows
• unnecessary services running in background without my concent, and I had no control over them, eating up resources.

My initial experience with Linux:

• I need to study it to know my way around.
• applications behave as intended and are reasonable with provided resources.
• I initially started out with a destop environment which came with some extra software I didn’t need (subjective).
• experience was quite stable.

My current outlook towards Linux:

• My system is configured and equipped with tools I only need. No bloatware.
• Gives me a better idle temps than windows.
• FOSS has lot of talented software which got limitless potential. Your imagination is the limit.
• Better security and no surveillance.
• Nvidia drivers, and its respective tech needs to be fully adopted for Linux.

I personally prefer appimages. What are your thoughts about it?

I got a five year old g502. I have no issues on linux or piper. I more willing to use piper than LGS to configure the mouse.

Next year it might go up to 10%? Privacy is a serious concern these days.

Windows is a liability. I’m forced to use it because of the propriatary nature of the games (and tech) I play.

There is nothing awesome coming out of Microsoft.

Needs to run well on Linux

AMD.