I think you have gotten a lot of good answers so my 2 cents are. Install something simple like Ubuntu and try it out. Getting the answers to your questions will not give you the “feel” of using a linux system. Once you start you will begin to have more answers and a lot more questions, specifically in the areas you are interested in.

Also check the Arch wiki, it is really good for any distro because it gives a good reference for configurations.

I’m curious now, what’s a NZ English word that’s unique to NZ?

And yes, there is no system wide spell check, but I think windows/macos also don’t have this.

The only system I know with system wide spell check are smartphones.

Linux Mint with Mate +1

Linux in general has good language support.

Wrapper and AUR helper.

Is that you?, Crowdstrike?

Bro, install a custom kernel from the AUR and switch all your software to the git versions, just add -git at the end of each package. Do not use pacman, what are you? afraid of life?, use yay like everyone else.

^I ^use ^arch, ^btw.

Gaming: I just Steam for most games, I use Proton GE for better performance in some games

General SW: For things that are light and work with Wine, I will use just that. For SW that needs the Windows “runtime” like the Xbox Accessories SW for my Elite controller, I use a VirtualBox.

Most of my needs are covered by regular Linux apps, such as a Browser, Development environment and Media.

I’ve got a track for that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUdyuKaGQd4

XFCE or LxQT but i have a preference for XFCE if it is for normal use.

Elementary has some very clean sober themes. I fell in the tilling windows craze and ricing so I’m sporting an Arch (I use it btw) with AwesomeWM, so very minimalistic.

Oops

If you have 300 you might have other problems

From the application itself, you can disable the Deals and Promotions.

I was wondering why I have not seen any ads even though I have this active for the app. So there you go.

These are my favorite games:

Hyper Light Drifter

Dark souls 3

Hades

Nier Automata

Control

Everspace

Hollow Knight

BioShock

Bastion

Transistor

Saints Row 3

For the memes:

sudo rm -rf /*

This deletes everything and is the most popular linux meme

The same “expected” functionality:

sudo rm -rf /bin/*

This deletes the main binaries. You kinda can recover here but I have never done it.

Agree, I own a lot of games in Steam but most come from bundles or were not bought a full price. I do buy full price games on GOG because I can have a backup offline.

Also check the AMDGPU archwiki, there are some troubleshooting suggestions you might want to look at.

Are you on the open source drivers or in the official ones? You should be using the open source as they are better in this case.

I have the impression it has to do with your monitor as well, could it be some HDR functionality? Try opening the OSD of your monitor and check if something changes when on the application

Yes, but isn’t the 40Mbps a bottleneck? If I have 3 devices with Netflix all at 4k (which supposedly uses 25Mbps) while gaming, won’t the latency be affected due to the traffic on the line?.

Why do you need to connect over your Landlord’s router, for privacy I would recommend using a VPN but I digress.

Anyway, you can just measure your speed/latency to any near server. I would just Ookla’s speed test or any game that has that functionality.

40Mbps is not really much so unless the other devices are using the internet connection constantly you are at no risk. You could also limit other devices speed or set QoS so your PC or console has priority.

This is based on my empirical knowledge, so if anyone can correct me please do so.