on two completely different systems, one of which is an HP prebuilt desktop and the other a custom made one, when it worked flawlessly before and just suddenly stopped working with Kernel 6.1? Even if that's an ACPI fuckup by the manufacturer, they seem to have patched out the Kernel's mitigations for it.
Yes but I don't want to waste hours when my brain can't solve it in a few minutes if it's not the core gameplay (like with The Witness or Talos Principle). For example with Zelda BotW I looked up a solution to one or two of the shrines because I took half an hour and still didn't figure out the (very simple) solution.
can you rollback on boot like with NixOS? This is one feature I found really cool, but NixOS itself completely turns me off. They have several bootloader entries where you could just boot into a previous system configuration, which is not a filesystem snapshot like with grub-btrfs+pacman-boot-backup-hook or similar.
I can recommend https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/ and a Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS. That should set them up for a lifelong journey of learning and excitement and bring enough tools to experience everything without relying on Windows which spies on them.
Ignore anyone telling you to use Linux or FOSS tools that donāt have an industry standard grip. blender and obs are fine but if someone is suggesting vim or emacs over visual studio code or notepad, they donāt understand kids or ease of use.
Or you can just use tools which are not on the CLI. My mom uses Linux and she's 60, I guess a child can easily use Linux. In fact, I'm teaching a few dozen kids to learn scratch and Python on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspberry Pi OS and they manage just fine.
Please get a grip on the industry standard of teaching people. They're even doing Minecraft development on these things (although we compile externally).
For making games I recommend the Thonny IDE and Scratch as a start. They both work on Linux. Godot also works fine on Linux if they want to continue that route.
You can do all that with Windows aswell but for teaching our group of teachers found out that it just gets in the way of doing things when updates break stuff and you can't simply fix it by copying files around.
Satisfactory seems to somewhat reliably get the correct GPU, but not 100% of the time. The filter part I had to get from DRI_PRIME=0 vulkaninfo | grep "deviceName". You can apparently also use DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME="AMD Radeon RX".
The point is: you play as the robots. They don't play as an immigrant IRL.