soon we will reach the magic number companies need to finally consider supporting Linux for once

A Linux user with a relationship?? Impossible! (/s)

Usually they work well enough, especially things that just involve repacking binaries (e.g. printer drivers)

And this, this is why I love the AUR

I use WezTerm. Highly configurable and supports every image display protocol under the sun.

From a developer’s standpoint, one of the bigger pain points of Wayland is window embedding.

If you want to embed from an external process, the only way to do this is to have your application expose its own Wayland compositor and then have the embedded process use that Wayland compositor. No one has made a library for this as of yet.

If you want to embed from the same process, it shouldn’t be too difficult; you just need a wl_subsurface. However, this doesn’t work too well with most GUI toolkits.

Wayland is just radically different from every other windowing API, and I’m hoping that the GUI toolkits can adapt.

handling word documents

This is the biggest pitfall of Linux: Microsoft doesn’t make Office for Linux and the compatibility layers we do have don’t work well enough.

There are alternatives like LibreOffice, however, don’t expect them to be perfectly compatible with Office.

Everything else you listed is perfectly fine: Most browsers ship Linux versions, and those can be used for PDF viewing.

I’d recommend familiarizing yourself with the Linux command line, as most advanced system configuration has to be done through the CLI.

In addition, remember to do your research before asking for help. Good resources include the system manual pages, Arch Wiki, and of course, Google.

As for choice of distro, I’ll recommend Fedora, as it’s reasonably up to date with software and has a nice GUI for dealing with updates.

This one got me

well, if that’s true I should be allowed to email NVIDIA and ask for their driver code

well, Wine does support WoW64, but the way it’s implemented requires you to install both 32 and 64 bit Wine.

Even if it’s Steam Deck, this just goes to show that desktop Linux is totally viable; it just needs more commitment from companies

Alice and Bob are friends at ${university_name}. At ${date_time} they cross paths.

Alice: Hi, I want to tell you a TCP joke.

Bob: Sure, I’m ready to hear the TCP joke.

Alice: Alright,I am going to tell you the TCP joke.

Alice: Here’s the actual joke. It’s hilarious.

Bob: laughs hysterically

Alice: I’m glad you liked my joke.

Alice: Alright, that was the TCP joke.

Bob: Thanks for telling me about it.

Bob: So, that’s it I guess?

Alice: Yeah, that’s about all I wanted to tell you.

Alice and Bob part ways and run off to their next classes.

IntelliJ for Java and Rider for C#. VSCode for everything else.

The way I see it, a Linux distribution:

• Boots the Linux kernel
• Has open-source software at its core
• Provides an “easy bootstrap” system.
• Does not outright prevent modification of system software. (This excludes ChromeOS/Android)
  • This does not exclude immutable distros, as system software can still be modded as root).

When I used Ubuntu, I had to install the .debs off of Brother’s site by myself. They provide .deb/.rpm packages.

once webassembly can directly interface with the DOM I will happily switch to writing my webapps in C++

Fingerprint sensor stopped working

File an issue to libfprint, your fingerprint reader probably isn’t supported yet.

Then again, we must consider that it’s complicated, and thus Hofstadter’s law applies.

And said trusted friend’s tow truck would need to have a display in the window saying “Certified Safe Tow Truck”