I'm not opposed to it, but is there demand for it to be on GitHub?
There is! These sort of guides are best suited to be hosted at Github/lab because of their dynamic nature. Any recommendations and "best practice" today might easily become outdated tomorrow in this fast-moving Linux world! Plus you can have contributors too submitting corrections and updates (if you wish to merge 'em), so you're not left alone doing all the work.
Here's an example of one such guide I've used in the past that's still being updated:
AudioEncoder (bug 1749046) doesn't really have any dependencies or blockers, as far as I can tell. If there are, then you (or whoever has access) should update Bugzilla and add the dependency there.
Because Firefox is like a democracy, they prioritize work based on number of votes on issues/feature requests. The AudioEncoder API has literally just one vote, and the overall WebCodecs API that it's a part of only has five votes. This shows that there's very little demand for it, meaning very few sites actually use this (that or the vast majority of Firefox users don't use/need this feature). Why bother focusing your efforts on implementing something that most users don't care about? The higher priority things that most Firefox users care about is stuff like performance, and Mozilla have been making some good progress too on that front.
Mini all-in-one PC are expensive, just buy a used/refurbished regular PC. If you want, you can get them in SFF (Small Form Factor), which are still upgradable and a better option than AIOs. Here are some results on eBay for reference.
I'd recommend getting AMD because of their excellent Linux support and overall better gaming performance. Also, you don't need a dedicated GPU for playing old games, even more so since AMD's integrated GPU is a lot better than Intel's, and works better on Linux too.
But it you want to play current games, you'll need a dedicated GPU, and that $250 budget isn't going to cut it unfortunately. However, you always have the option of buying a cheap used GPU later on, when you've got some cash to spare. But for now, if you focus on older games then the integrated GPU on an AMD will do fine.
In addition to what others wrote, here's a practical example:
I wanted to insert an old photo in a comment, from my Google Photos. The photo doesn't exist on my device, since it was taken from an old phone. I located the photo in Goolge Photos and downloaded it to my device. Then I went to pick the photo in Sync, but it was neither visible under "recent", nor in any of the albums. So I had no choice but to scroll thru hundreds of photos to manually look for it, and found it under the original date the photo was taken - which makes sense, but in the previous gallery, my recently downloaded photos would appear at the top.
I've only got a few hundreds of photos so this isn't a big issue for me, but I can imagine it'll be a dealbreaker for people with thousands of photos on their device.
realmd and sambafor AD, and smbclient can be used to map network printers.
As for how Maya OS looks, it's going to be used for their defence systems, so it's highly unlikely we'll get to see it. But it's supposedly based on Ubuntu and has a "familiar" interface, so I imagine it might look something like Zorin OS.
but Linux has a massive user-friendliness issue if you seemingly have to pick the right one, or your fucked.
That's not really a "Linux" issue.
"Linux" isn't some singular OS, it's an ecosystem. It's just like choosing a car, just because most cars have four wheels and an engine doesn't mean they're all the same. Selecting the right car is rightfully frustrating and can and does make a huge difference.
It's like selling a Tesla to a 90 year old grandma and then her complaining that it's unfriendly. And just because the Tesla is unfriendly to a particular audience doesn't automatically make it a bad car, but even if it was, that doesn't mean that all electric vehicles are as bad as Tesla.
I've never come across a single paywalled news site that was worth subscribing to. Pretty much 100% of the paywalled content I've ever come across were all some random links I found via Google or Reddit (and now Lemmy). It wasn't like I was particularly trying to visit that site and read all of their articles or something. Also, just so we're clear, I'm not saying that I don't to pay/donate/subscribe to stuff - I subscribe to Spotify because I use it daily and it's worth it, I subscribe to Sync because I use it daily and it's worth it etc.
But most of these paywalled news sites (or some random scientific paper published on some random science journal) isn't something that I'm really interested in pursuing a subscription for, just because I stumbled upon some random link out of curiosity - so if they think that I'll subscribe just because of one random article... that's just shitty business.
Ideally, they should just let me view that random article for free and set a cookie (could be server-side) and say "hey, your IP address has viewed three articles on this site already, so we think you like our stuff so, you should really consider subscribing if you want to read more content!". I mean, that makes sense. I'd then go, "yep, this site has quality content and the type of content I'd like to read, so it's worth subscribing to".
But no, instead they're like "heeey random visitor, you just stumbled upon this random link and hey guess what, you need an entire subscription just to read one ducking article! Of course, asking you to pay for a whole month's worth of subscription makes total sense, and isn't going to put you off, right?"
How are you finding it so far? As in is it actually usable for day-to-day stuff (like decent battery life, working suspend/resume, hardware accelerated video playback etc)?
Yes, but that's still three clicks. I was thinking more like being able to long-press the name of the community and the select either subscribe or block.
Here in Wellington, New Zealand, we have a very successful and bustling cyber café called Respawn, which is one of those rare cyber cafés that actually also offers food - and some pretty decent food at that (they're even on Uber Eats!). In addition to PCs, they have all the major consoles, racing rigs and even VR gear too, so there's plenty of reasons to go there since not everyone has the room (or budget) for a racing rig or VR at home. They also host regular events like mechanical keyboard meetups, eSports tournaments and so on. And although all my friends have a decent PC/console, we're now spread all over the country, so whenever we have a get-together, we meet up at cafés like Respawn and have a LAN party like the good ol' days. My friends and I are grateful cafés like this still exist.
Respawn's success shows us that cyber cafés still have a place and can make it work, they just need to diversify and offer reasons for folks to come back.
Xoblite a shell enhancement based on Blackbox, makes your Windows desktop look like Linux (OpenBox/Fluxbox). Thousands of themes on boxshots.org, highly customisable shell.
There is! These sort of guides are best suited to be hosted at Github/lab because of their dynamic nature. Any recommendations and "best practice" today might easily become outdated tomorrow in this fast-moving Linux world! Plus you can have contributors too submitting corrections and updates (if you wish to merge 'em), so you're not left alone doing all the work.
Here's an example of one such guide I've used in the past that's still being updated:
https://github.com/AdelKS/LinuxGamingGuide