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.

Hahaha I was thinking about my wife when I wrote my comment, my train of thought was in the direction of “I’m breaking the law to show you that I love you by hugging you more than 3 mins”, ladies like bad boys.

Also 3 mins is not that much when saying the well wishes while hugging.

Thus ensuring that now all hugs will last 3 mins per person.

Finally, WB suffering due to their antics, I’m sad for the IP they hold and the non-management employees and creators. It’s been years since it’s been known that the WB management gets in the way of movies.

Wow, the parity with Microsoft office is amazing

Did the pizza delivery guy trip?

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.

Team Dog!!!

Man’s best friend, clearly

I’ve got a track for that:

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

Woooooo! Death Ray! Yeah!

There are open LLMs models, you can have your own very biased assistant.

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.