I tried PopOS and the pop store is not the best, and gnome is too foreign for someone coming from windows.
And also, too fiddly to make it work with a number of third party extensions vs the customization being built in.
KDE is heavier but also seems more streamlined and Cinnamon is fairly decent too.
I'm doing exactly the same ๐๐
Bias is inevitable. Whether it is AI or any other knowledge based system. We just have to be cognizant of it and try to remedy it.
I bought an old business HP 3500 Pro ans have been running jellyfin and a number of socker containers from it. Plus it is quite upgradeable since it's just a pc, and cost me just 100 CAD.
Would Calibre Web fit the bill maybe?
I figure you'd pay via google pay/apple pay on mobile and FB doesn't wanna take the loss for those fees.
Apparently also leaked quite clumsily with Anushka Sharma in India. That back camera bump is ginormous.
I've landed in the same boat. Debian is quite usable as is. And fairly familiar when you've been using Ubuntu/Mint for a bit.
Also, by your definition, Skyrim and Witcher 3 are also Shovelware.
Which, I want you to think hard about for maybe 1 min.
And the stock dip is unlikely since they're doing gangbusters on the datacenter front. Nvidia has enough gas in the tank to weather the hit from low consumer Gaming sales.
I'll be holding onto my 1060 6GB until it croaks.
Pikmin 2, Subnautica, Dome Keeper on the Steam Deck, Zelda TOTK on the Switch and revisiting Civ V on my main pc.
I totally see your point and I tried GNOME first to have a uniquely Linux experience. I do agree with you. But the inflexibility of GNOME by default made it a much harder flip. I tried it with PopOS too, after using Debian for a while.
Plus tbh, I don't think with still how much you need to use the terminal for linux, anyone would be mistaken in the transition. Windows has kludge from the 90s for their settings and linux still needs terminal.