Baeically its a somewhat stripped down version of plasma ment to be used with a controller or remote, but it is only a DE, so applications that arent controller friendly are going to stay that way.

Setting steam to launch big picture by default tho would basically turn any powerful pc you have into a steam console (steam big picture) with an extra home screen (plasma bigscreen) that shows all your other applications

Mommy.

This should be a well know, but often misunderstood thing. Lots of reddit selfhosting threds urge people to buy a new mini-pc for its “low power draw” when usually its the same or 1-2watts less then a laptop from 2012. However performace to watt is much higher, so if you need massive preformance new is much better, if your system is idling most of the time anyway, basically no diffrence in buying old

Alpine just feels like everything on my system is there for a reason (and somehow makes arch feel “bloated”) so I 100% understand wanting a full config file for everything on your system. But DAMN THE DOCS SUCK. Also NixOS locks you into systemd…

This is much less a Linux problem and much more a communuty one. We really need a semi-centralized place to get recent linux info and a nice guide on linux specific knowlage for beginners, but then people will cry needing to learn what wayland/x11 and such are will turn people away. Whoever was telling you windows games 10-15% faster were fucking dumbasses, I have zero problem running any game I want on my machine but the preformace has been exactly the same as windows (which I still consider a win for linux)

The next big problem is people going “We don’t need gaming distros” when those gaming distros are made to solve this exact problem. If you haven’t already try out Bazzite or Nobara and it might “just work” (no promises tho). But a distro like Mint/Pop/Debian are going to have a lot of missing drivers/package updates for the latest hardware, Fedora needs relatively a lot of post-install tinkering to get things working since they only ship opensource packages by default, Garuda is not ment for beginners and uses a more unstable kernal for preformance, but you still need to tinker with drivers. Bazzite and Nobara are the two big distros that aim to “just work” out of the box and even re-package some software with the latest fixes. And incase you don’t like the look of them, you can install whatever theme over KDE Plasma you want

Ofc I get if your tired of hearing “just install this distro instead” but a lot of advice is coming from others who also don’t actually know whats going on under the surface, and sometimes your hardware just isn’t supportes (not a linux issue but a manufacturer one). And if your at the point where using windows for gaming works and thats enough for you, nothin wrong with just using windows

Sorry I can’t vc but I’d like to share some opinions/feedback. A lot of these are UI/UX things that I imagine won’t be implemented until later in development but I would like to get them out there:

1. Please do not add AI to this (or at least keep it as a plugin). Seems like an odd ask but every webapp bookmark manager I’ve check out has added the most random AI features

2. Optionally see bookmarks under lists in the sidebar (including seeing lists under “unpinned lists” and bookmarks under “unsorted bookmarks”). For neatness sake maybe have it clamped to 10 items and have the rest listed as a single item + x bookmarks in a subtext color

List
  Sublist
  Bookmark
  Bookmark

3. Search for bookmarks

4. Rename, delete, and move bookmarks from the sidebar with a right click menu

5. Sidebar bookmarks show favicon of website. Bookmark page shows a preview of the website

6. Extra information in key=value for bookmarks, ie: price=49.99, and being able to sort by keys, ie: price <= 25

7. Hidden bookmarks: hidden by default from searches and list views unless “show hidden” option is toggled. I personally would use this a lot for websites I’ve read through already but might want to keep incase someone else needs the info

8. Archived bookmarks: archive the site itself and store it on the server

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Xfce next major release will have Wayland support so no need to even change!

Personally I would say start with Arch and if you like it use endeavorOS. Endeavor is just easy install for arch(and the only one I’ve tried that actually achieved it well) so if you already know the inner workings it saves a lot of tedious install work and has some nice QOL defaults already set like yay colorized

Lenovo has official support for Ubuntu on all laptops which translates very well to other distros. IMO the Thinkbook gen 6 having fully upgradable ram and decent specs is a really good deal for a Linux laptop *when on sale