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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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Pretty simple, really. Buy a console for gaming, or a separate machine for gaming. I don't game, the joy of that died with the loss of lan parties and Tribes II.
Choose a system, make it your daily driver for work and home, and you will form the habits and muscle memory. Don't and it will remain a struggle to some degree or another.
I'm not sure why you say that. I've been using Arch to play triple A games (Control, Diablo 4, Elden Ring, Death Stranding, etc.) with NVidia GPU even (which is known to have proprietary driver and not as tweakable). Never had a single glitch, everything runs like native.
My experimentation with gaming using Steam had gone just fine, as well. But I hear it all the time, that Linux and gaming have issues. My response to them is pretty much that I don't care. I don't use Linux for gaming. Gaming isn't my thing. To me, gamers and their needs are completely unimportant, as the pass time is just a waste.
I used elementaryOS back in 2016. It was the best system, the best experience, the best look and feel. That was amazing.
Everything went to shit with one of the updates. It destroyed the graphics drivers and I wasn't able to reinstall it correctly. Shortly after they released the new big version of elementaryOS which was just bad. Looked bad, worse user experience. It was also slower. And even small update killed my graphic drivers. Again. That was it. Back to Windows. Few years after that I moved to MacOS and now it's stable, looking nice and I am confident that the os will work pretty much the same on the next day.
It's crucial when you have a freelance work. I just can't imagine waking up to see that my Linux machine decided to fuck me up on a that particular day. Nope.
To be fair there are very stable distros like Debian that will hardly ever break.
I guess they're linking the same repo. However they talk about their positive experience with linux on surface pro
Edit: someone mentioned that nobara has the patches incorporated in their release. Might be worth checking out
When I got into Linux I read every physical book I could. Physical books on a subject tend to be written to have chapters that cover whole material. When you try and learn from multipe ebooks you randomly found online you end up cherry picking bits and pieces and never actually read every chapter, so you miss fundamentals.
Maybe you would benefit by reading a PAPER copy of a book about Linux and the especially command line. Linux is a very command line oriented system so maybe trying to tackle some of the struggles head on will help you unlock apt any other tools.
People get used to things they understand so they don't want to learn. Frustration builds as you get older, so I am glad I started a long time ago, and I have a lot of respect for people who are willing to learn constantly and are patient. I learn(ed) from trial and error, I like poking the bear and being able to see what works/doesn't and why. The responses I got regarding lack of linux usage is that people don't like spending time troubleshooting, or they get super jaded and just want something that works then and there, just so they don't think too much about it. But now the irony is that windows will piss them off so much they will have no choice but to learn the distro they choose. It's like vim, at first it seems strange, but once you learn it you will never look back. Learning is done as long as there is curiosity and need involved.
Its a little more difficult to debug and fix issues compared to windows
One pain point I commiserate with mentioned here is the fractured nature of finding federated communities, which I don't see any easy way to solve.