Well technically Mint has one terrible default nowadays that is hidden unverified Flatpaks.

the best way to help a non-enthusiast use Linux, is to maintain their system for them, so they don’t have to.

Uhh that’s a very unpopular approach. Nobody wants to do that.

Nix? Nah better stay away from that one.

Another thing that’s needed is icon labels or alternative text. Apps like LibreOffice suffer from icon-heavy UI which is hard to understand and remember for new users and even for me without any explanations.

No. Old UI is terrible. The newest UI with extremely rounded corners is bad too but I’d much rather use it than old stuff.

It’s not very stable though. It failed majorly in my case.

Minding wallpapers if they’re not questionable or illegally obtained sounds like a symptom of a disorder to me. That’s my answer.

The real thing is: can you update the microcode of older CPUs? If not then it’s a marketing strategy.

BIOS doesn’t matter for gaming as long as you don’t use modded GPU drivers.

KDE always gets more stable after a lot of minor updater. But it can’t be completely stable and then big updates ruin everything anyways. KDE has a ridiculous update model for a serious project. There’s not enough testing.

Way too boring.

I’m sorry but I can’t resist mentioning it. Manjaro implemented quite sus telemetry recently so you should keep it in mind when choosing and using it.

I can’t define one favorite distro. I change my daily driver sometimes but it’s always something Arch based, even though I think OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is the ultimately best distro/base.

FYI I try it on Arch Linux.

But it’s very stable if you don’t mess around with those things and just use it.

I personally don’t consider it stability at all. I guess everyone has a different definition of it.

KDE has never been stable for me. I can find a bug within 10 minutes if I search properly. On the other hand, GNOME is stable for me as long as I don’t use sus extensions.

EDIT: just create a very wide vertical panel and try to move a clock widget in and out of it. Sometimes it’ll just disappear and often it will crash Plasma.

Everything You Wanted

Is decent stability included? I very much doubt so.

I think they are but Mozilla is not profitable and will be an expense source. Idk if it’ll make Proton negative but it definitely won’t improve their business.

Well all it’ll do is make Proton lose more money.

That’s the Mozilla paradox right there. A company like theirs cannot survive on the market without breaking their own ideals.