i always liked Bunsenlabs, very nice minimalist setup. windowmaker live (wmlive) is also interesting, more in a retro direction.

For the opposite side of the spectrum: Garuda Linux Dragonized

Not exactly the same, and the music industry has had plenty of lawsuits going both ways on that kind of thing establishing a status quo for remixes and samples in music

Few could be zero lol, i have no idea.

i think the copyright question is still unanswered: it could turn out that any LLM-generated code is a copyright violation by definition unless trained exclusively on a clean, legitimately-obtained dataset (which few of the major models are).

Will projects that allow LLM contributions have to roll back years of progress when the other shoe finally drops? Seems like a huge risk, especially for FOSS and copyleft. I think disallowing LLM-written contributions until this is all sorted out in the courts is the pragmatic move from a legal perspective.

My suggestion would be KDE Neon or Fedora KDE, since both are straightforward and have official Plasma Bigscreen packages

I don’t think atomic distros like Bazzite are a good fit for something like this since Plasma Bigscreen does not appear to have an official flatpak. It can be done but there are some drawbacks.

If you go with one of my suggestions, you will want to install multimedia codecs that do not come with the OS by default.

Here is a guide that will work on KDE Neon.

This guide is for Fedora.

That’s my bad, i was thinking of a different building

isn’t Trump tower in Midtown? If you include Midtown as part of Downtown that covers pretty much every very tall skyscraper in the city

unused RAM is wasted RAM. Just idle desktop browsing it can look like Linux is using more than the same task on Windows, but Linux does a better job actually feeling fast.

Just my experience but i’m not the first person to notice this. Could definitely vary by distro or setup, but comparing memory usage between Windows and Linux is very “Apples and Oranges”

i mostly see immutables recommended to beginners on here

Mint is a good suggestion for a new user. An underrated distro, but solid, simple, and works well for any purpose.

Go with an AMD graphics card over Nvidia, even if it costs significantly more. with Nvidia you will need to deal with shitty drivers (similar to Windows) and eventually your GPU will stop being supported. Also niche distros may have extra steps required to get everything working.

With AMD your card just works great no matter the distro, no matter how old the card gets. I never think about my GPU because it works at full performance every time with zero setup

CPU matters less: Intel and AMD are both solid on Linux

Linux can live with less RAM than Windows and work fine, but with more RAM Linux will intelligently cache frequently accessed files to speed up pretty much every program. Linux looks like it’s using more resources but it’s actually using them for something useful, and Linux will still back off if something you are doing actually needs more RAM