I recommend fail2ban to stop the automated attacks that are the background noise of the internet. It will set your firewall to block certain ip's for a while, especially ports 21/22 are getting hammered with dictionary login attempts. And port 80 and 8080 for example get constantly version checked to see if you are vulnerable with an old apache, old dokuwiki etc, so don't expose more than you need to and maybe learn about ssh tunnels and close a few.
I once installed ossim in a small network with a server and it showed me it is war out there, scripts flying everywhere.
The cold war is over, they are called developing countries now. Your point still stands, the US has lots of developing to do, especially on the social/society front.
Marginal support happens a lot on Linux. See AMD drivers without Adrenaline. "You may use Linux if you must... at your own risk... we do the bare minimum to keep you runnig... our past stuff is in the open but we can pull the rug on future releases any time."
You can install gog games and maybe some dude made galaxy work in wine, corporate has decided that is good enough.
Imho, if they decide to put effort into Linux, I'd rather see them put dev resources into heroic to add these features than to make just another client. They are late to the market, that would make the most of it.
I'm kindof a nimby when it comes do giant cockroach farms in my area, please don't scale this up. Don't make "oops 2 billion milkroaches have escaped" a thing.
I like badblocks in destructive mode. It can also do multiple rounds of overwriting. It is also a good tool to burn in a new hdd or test a used one. just check smartctl bad sector count, run it, check again if it increased.
Lmao this is Linux! A new distribution is only a new source to fork from, distributions only die after the last maintainer has left.
Besides, Fedora atomic is build in a ci/cd pipeline from Fedora with high automation, chances Bazzite gets forks and custom editions are basically baked in and sold as advantages of this approach.
I recommend using windows tools to shrink windows partitions if you only have one drive and read about manual partitioning for your Linux install - though the "use free space" option should work fine after windows shrunk itself.
Only public facing ports, maybe your openvpn login. But that means you are already firewalled up and your attack surface is tiny, good 👍