KianaTabion

what setup do you have for a keyboard driven workflow in your browser and what are your reasons for it.

One might argue I'm a bit paranoid on security. Hence, Trivalent is my preferred browser on Desktop Linux. Which leaves Vimium as my only option... And that's exactly what I use 😅.

This is mostly a matter of maturity and whether there is tooling to make this possible. As such, it's not surprising that only the more established atomic distros are part of the conversation. Those^[Factually speaking, Guix System is even older than Fedora Atomic. Hence, it deserves to be mentioned alongside the other two. However, I am simply unaware of a gaming distro that's based on Guix System. Which is exactly why it wasn't discussed alongside the others.] being Fedora Atomic and NixOS.

Besides Bazzite, Playtron GameOS is also based on Fedora Atomic.

As for NixOS-based gaming distros, there's Jovian NixOS and GLF OS.

FWIW, ChimeraOS is IIRC a notable exception to the above.

Note that none of these come close to Bazzite community-wise*.

Very cool to see that System Extensions are being adopted and that the tooling is improving to reflect that!

This reminds me of the sysexts-manager project, which is worked on by a Fedora Atomic maintainer.

TIL that SUSE's security is actively involved in openSUSE's packages. It was due to their effort that openSUSE retired Deepin desktop packages. Props to (open)SUSE for this!

Fedora is basically playing catch-up by following their lead. I'm glad that they did, though - even if it took them a year...

I guess my first question is whether Linux knowledge in general is interchangeable between distros?

Most distros are made up of the same components/building-blocks. Hence, learning to interact with the component/building-block on distro X will benefit you whenever you stumble upon it on distro Y.

And second, more importantly, what are the good resources for learning basic things?

"Basic things" is a broad descriptor 😅. I suppose Linux Journey is pretty neat for learning the ropes. But you're probably best served by resources/documentation that have purposely been created by the maintainers of your chosen distro.

Like if I want to play games I bought on steam, how can I expect that process to be different?

That depends entirely on the game. For some games, it goes as smooth as butter. For others, you need some tweaking before you get there. For yet others, it's simply unsalvageable. See https://www.protondb.com/ and https://areweanticheatyet.com/ for more details.

If I want to manage files and folders and extensions and such how does that differ if at all from Windows.

Your Linux experience will mostly be dictated by the so-called Desktop Environment. Hence, the above question can only be meaningfully answered after you've decided on that.

I’m coming from specifically windows, but I assume for people coming from Mac OS as well what are the do’s and don’ts that you wouldn’t necessarily think of when switching?

Shortlist:

• Don't download your apps/software/programs/drivers (or what have you) from the internet browser like you're used to on Windows. Instead, get it from the repositories of your distro. This is commonly accessed from an app store (or something).

Excellent write-up! Thank you so much for this!

that will totally not break with every upgrade

While I agree that it's a lot more brittle than it has any right to be, it hasn't been that bad in my experience. For example, it only took me 1-2 days after its official release to upgrade to Fedora 44 (and with it, GNOME 50). Out of the 5/6 extensions I had installed, only 1 has broken on me. Arguably, that is one too many. But as GNOME offers a very stable and polished experience otherwise, I suppose this is pretty acceptable.