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1. Gaming on Linux is nearly effortless within the Steam ecosystem. Outside if that, it requires a little more technical proficiency and a willingness or excitement for learning. Lutris, Heroic, and Bottles are all tools that can help you run non-Steam Windows software on Linux. Your mileage WILL vary depending on what you want to run. Non-games are very hit-and-miss.
2. Use LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. Formulas should work natively, but macros may need to be reimplemented since LibreOffice Calc uses a different “Basic” than Excel.
3. That depends on what you mean by “Outlook”. I’d wager most Linux users automatically pick Thunderbird, which is a fairly basic mail client compared to the MS Office version of Outlook. It is comparable to the lightweight built-in Windows Outlook, though. I prefer Evolution as my mail client, which is closer to Apple Mail or Windows Outlook. Try some things out and see what you like.
4. VSCode and VSCodium are readily available FOSS editors. There is also Kate, which comes with many KDE-based distros. Jetbrains IDEs work very well on Linux, whether you use free community, free non-commercial, or paid versions.

It’s still 32bit. i’ve heard it guessed that Valve does this on purpose because so many games are still 32bit and Wine/Proton/etc aren’t fully compatible yet. What does it matter if Steam works and most of the Steam library does not.

Fedora is literally the source of this problem. Bazzite is based on Fedora.

I’ll leave this here from another post on this topic…

Kubuntu with the minimal install is a great choice. All the benefits of Ubuntu and KDE Plasma without the Snap rubbish. Canonical still gives me ick, though.

No. At least not for projects like Bazzite, where Steam features like Big Picture / SteamOS mode can’t work as a flatpak for technical reasons. There are also major problems running games that way, too. The technical details are being heatedly discussed in the Fedora community if your interested in the nitty-gritties.

It isn’t just Steam, but gaming in general. Dropping 32bit support would kill a huge swath of gaming and game preservation. Work is being done on tools like WoW64 but it’s slow going. No distro should even talk about dropping 32b until the rest of the ecosystem can pick up the slack. If Fedora wants to accelerate that, they should contribute to the projects that aim to provide backwards compatibility instead of scaring the whole Linux community with destructive and shortsighted proposals.

Bazzite is fantastic for gaming. You can still tinker by creating new “layers” with rpm-ostree, but it’s a very different way of thinking about your system. It functions more like a container than a traditional system.

Services like TurnItIn are unethical in the extreme and any institution that uses them should be protested, boycotted, not given a moment of peace until they drop them. These tools don’t work, are highly prone to false positives, harm neurodiverse students disproportionately, and steal content from vulnerable students who can’t opt out.

Notesnook.

It’s FOSS, it’s loaded with features, it’s cross-platform, and offers a self-hostable FOSS sync server, too.

Exactly. Authoritarianism is driven by two things, fearful followers who want to combat their fear with control, and social dominator leaders who take advantage of fearful followers for their own benefit.

Here is an entire free book full of research on the topic.

https://theauthoritarians.org/

I want to respond in a rational, reasonable way, but this is so factually incorrect and utterly unhinged I am not sure where to even start. Ordinarily I’d be all about dumping on Bethesda, too.

What if everyone started talking about how “woke” Apple, Amazon, and Google are? Maybe it would pass, then. Remember, we don’t need to define woke, we just need to point and say the magic word and GOP politicians will vote against it.

The underlying system is managed by OSTree, which handles the entire system instead of individual packages. You cannot simply change any part of the system, it’s all or nothing. This means stability, security, and effortless rollbacks if anything goes wrong. If you really want to tinker, you can create layers that sit on top of the base system, but it still doesn’t modify the system. It’s a very different way of thinking about how the system works. It’s like working with containers.

…not pull a Microsoft/Apple and force want they want on the user base.

This is why I personally stopped using anything from Canonical.

Bazzite is based on Universal Blue, which is based on Fedora Silverblue, which is the first immutable, atomic Linux distro. The immutable nature of Bazzite is the point of it’s existence.

Bazzite is still currently a great distro.

If Fedora drops support for 32bit packages, Steam, Proton, and more will no longer work, and all Fedora derivatives become useless for gaming.

Other than Bazzite, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Kubuntu Minimal are both great choices.

Annotatively correct, connotatively deceptive. Also sometimes called a “Motte and Bailey Fallacy”.

And both are horrible while being nearly mandatory for job seekers.

I think I know what you are trying to say - if you visit the Fascist States of America right now you shouldn’t be surprised when the fascists go fascist on you - but this is still arguably a misuse of the face-eating leopards idiom, since he was never a leopard supporter.