If you already have a decent gaming PC you can game on it through your steam deck (or other handheld) with Steam Link. The deck will of course also work just fine by itself. There are more powerful handhelds but they’re all pretty pricey. If you mainly game at home, the PC is a better option IMO.

How would one go about making an offline copy of the repos? Asking for a friend.

Are you suggesting we should let the line go up more slowly so we can still have a business in a few years? That’s heresy!

Yes. My name is 4chan.

I changed the font size in Linux Mint. Does that count?

And just think how quickly you can get them all up and running with NixOS! All those endless hours of learning finally put to good use!

There’s probably some lightweight Linux distro you can get to run on it. It could be used for some edge computing, like Pihole.

Mint is still a great choice if just for the ease of installation. I agree they’re lagging behind a bit in the transition to Wayland but for most users that’s not really a big issue. Mint also has one of the largest communities so getting support will be easier. To me Mint is still an excellent choice for getting started with Linux. I’ve been using it for years and I see no reason whatsoever to switch.

OP has management material written all over him.

I’ve been gaming on Mint for years without any issue.

Installing Flatseal is hardly a huge chore. But I agree the whole thing should be more seamless.

I’ve been doing that whenever I had to do a Windows installation in recent years. But I don’t plan to ever install Windows again.

You wrote:

It also helps a lot if you have someone more skilled than you available to discuss.

Which could be read as you addressing me directly. Which of course I’m aware was not what you meant. I was just trying to be funny.

How do you know how skilled I am?

You get better at programming by programming.

I’d go for VSCodium. It’s open source and has no telemetry but it’s close enough to VS Code to develop commercially useful skills.

Think of it that way: those nice people are sending you money every month and all you have to do is go there and look busy. Certainly not the most rewarding way to spend your day but having money is nice.

Thanks.

I have no idea what any of those things are. Which is not to say, you shouldn’t post this here, but a bit of context would be nice.

Wait, what? Are you trying to say I don’t have to sacrifice a goat every time I start the Linux Mint update manager?