Nice one - haven't played with Nobara before, looks interesting. I've had several different versions running a media centre, and a separate headless server back in the day. Ran our main family laptop on Manjaro Gnome for a long time as well - back to windows these days however as my wife needs Archicad (Windows only). Son is using Manjaro as his daily driver for school and loving it. Everything's web based for him, so nice and easy.
I use Mackenzie beans in my cafe these days - big fan of their Mainland blend - rich, round, mellow, very easy to drink, and we get lots of compliments too!
Man, I can relate... Although we just watched the latest transformers movie with the kids and there's a reference right at the end to GI Joe - quote from Mr. 12 was "Gee, product placement much? I guess that's their next movie franchise" He's a cynical little bugger, lol, proud dad moment!
I like the comparisons with synthesizers, digital cameras, Photoshop etc. Not an aspect I'd considered before, so it will be interesting if we do in fact see a "creativity boom" as a result of these new techs...
Personally, I've found the text based LLMs to be invaluable in parts of my professional life - for example, churning out boilerplate type text for procedural documents. It's a tool to be used when appropriate, but currently it's new and shiny...
Yes, absolutely - wine itself has a layer to allow that. Have used it before and it works well (albeit with a bit of tweaking).