ArsonButCute

In my neck of the woods spiders need to be identified before I can let them stay. Just last year I found multiple widow spiders and a brown recluse in my apartment building, goodness I'm glad to be out of there.

I don't even like fedora ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just thought it'd be easier.

Buddy I've got my pronouns in my username please don't misgender me.

Additionally, your response is needlessly hostile. You've offered no additional information and have chosen my comment to be a naysayer on presumably only because it is the top comment on the post. You've contributed nothing but vitriol to this thread.

I couldn't give two shits what distros people use, and I'm not a fucking shill. OP wanted a suggestion, I gave 4. I used tobhse Fedora because it's easy, with a large community, and with the bleeding edge release cycle the newest libraries became available more easily without enabling testing repositories or using sketchy PPAs that haven't been vetted.

If OP weren't noob, and weren't someone who has already broken a mint install three times I'd have recommended that use something Debian based or Arch based, but they are, so I didn't.

Historically yes, but this appears to not exactly be the case any longer.

Reference https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues/284

There does appear to be a way to do it, from a cursory glance at the above it seems that Fedora and Windows need to have separate EFI partitions, I'm not all that invested though (I don't use these distros nor do I dual boot) so I don't really care to look much deeper.

Piswaßer

People seem to love bazzite, is it all its cracked up to be?

I'm happy with my lmde htpc/server/gamingrig/clusterfuck so I'm not planning on changing, but I've been in the market for a handheld gaming PC and its been on my list to try.

LMDE (mint sans ubuntu) user here, gaming is a dream, but sometimes a nightmare. You may need eventually to manually update the graphics card driver If you're on Nvidia, as the debian repos it pulls from are hella out of date. Otherwise, smooth sailing.

You'll likely only encounter problems on native games, Feral ports specifically seem to assume people have a libraries that they don't, so I often find myself launching their games in a terminal a million times to figure out what libraries are missing and manually link them or just copy them into the game lib folder.

OP specifically declines to use Linux mint, per their final point in their post. As a 2 decade user who is currently using Mint, OP is right. The windows experience is so handholdey that new users often aren't familiar with even HOW to research to fix their problems. Mint, a distribution that gives you training wheels but will not hold your hand is not ideal for someone who has already broken it several times, doing activities they didn't feel were necessary to share.

OP needs an immutable distro.

Based on your last paragraph, you might fall in the supernoob catergory. You'll want an immutable distribution, you can't break those Unless you tell it to let you break it.

As a windows user, you'll find familiarity in Fedora Kionite.

If you prefer a touchscreen oriented experience consider Fedora Silverblue.

There's a few other options on the page I'm linking, I haven't tried and therefore can't recommend either of the others.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

Edit: my formatting was 🗑️

Edit 2, electric boogaloo:

OP in your post you state you want Wallpaper Engine to work, unfortunately, you'll have issues there. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish with wallpaper engine you may be able to do the same using KDE Plasma. I personally use a VLC command line call to enable animated wallpapers on my rig, there's not exactly a standard for it on Linux so many of the solutions you find will be clunky. Just remember if you go around messing with your xorg.conf file you need to have a backup of it so you can undo changes easily in a terminal.

You're welcome to DM me if you need assistance.

Queer was more politically motivated in my experience.

Many dislike queer because it is a slur, in recent years though it is being reclaimed more and more by the community.

I remember even just a few years ago you could tell just how politically motivated someone was by weather they identified as "queer" or one of the many individual flavors of the rainbow (lesbian, gay, etc)

Havent needed them in months, I've been at 30 days remaining in evaluation period for 3 months.