My brother in Christ, I've borked Linux systems with a misplaced text file =D

1. The only other things that stick out to me are distro philosophy and release schedule. Like, do you want a completely community oriented distro, a corporate one, one with LTS-style releases, or rolling releases? These things may or may not make a difference.

2. The best way imo is to install Ventoy to a USB drive, then load it up with ISOs from distros you are interested in. Then you can boot into their live sessions and test drive them. But ultimately, you can almost always get Linux software running on any distro. The differences are whether a distro comes with something out of the box, or if it even has your desired apps in its official repos.

3. btop, Steam, Discord, Firefox. These are all available on all distros. Things like the file system browser - I don't care as much and just use what the distro provides by default.

4. Run a package update then install whatever other apps you want. For me, also set up auto mount of a couple network drives provided by my NAS.

5. You should not be concerned about this unless you are building things from source.

6. Probably... I used and gamed on Kubuntu for 2 years and had an excellent experience.

no

Jacob Collier as another serious answer.

How do I get involved in this?

On Hyprland for a few days now and feeling the same way.

Criminals also use things like public restrooms. Maybe we should gate those behind background checks.

The insinuation that website users somehow have a responsibility to watch ads so that the website's 3rd party content creators can make money reads like a case of Stockholm Syndrome. YouTube are the ones paying the creators, not me, and can change the terms by which they calculate creator payments at any time. If YT decides that now, ads viewed during the hours of 7pm to 10pm result in higher creator payments, where is my role in that? Am I now obligated to prefer viewing ads during that time?

Plenty of content is uploaded to YT by people who don't and never will get creator payments. Do I have to watch those ads?

My contract with YT is that I control what data is downloaded by and presented on my PC, not them. That Silicon Valley has decided that everything is free, but with ads, is unfortunate. If they're unable to fund their business or their content if I use an ad blocker, then it seems to me like they're pretty fucking bad at business.

Honestly that little reboot icon in the sys tray is sort of like a loaded gun pointed at me

Feeling this. When I first started I wondered why some of the senior devs worked an hour+ later on most days. Now I know - sometimes it's the only way to get anything done.

Lol, what do they expect to be done about this? Is the government supposed to force Facebook to show their content, yet also pay to do it? I hate Facebook but I'm so glad they're doing this because link taxes are fucking stupid.