Out of curiosity, why not go for something that supports Linux out of the box? Why stock to mainstream?

Flatpaks are a lot easier than appimages though I still default to my distros native packages if available.

PopOS and Manjaro are two I never liked.

For me it just never shows the correct play time so podcasts will get to the end in app but still have like 10 minutes left to play. Also it has a habit of randomly skipping back 10 seconds every now and then.

I use AntennaPod as it’s the best Foss option but it’s very buggy.

OpenSUSE TW for me. Used to be Arch but it’s just too much faff for me.

How do you manage to confuse there and their this much?

I gave up with pipewire and just switched to pulseaudio. All issues gone.

£5.99 refund. Quite clearly not in the US.

Pipewire doesn’t work in games for me so I switched back to Pulse. No issues since.

AMD is marginally easier but Nvidia is a lot better than people make out. The drivers install with one command in most distros.

Pipewire came installed by default on my OpenSUSE TW install and I never get audio in games. I have to constantly switch audio devices until it finally decides to work. I swapped it out for pulseaudio and I’ve never had an issue since.

Pipewire is really buggy for me so I just use pulseaudio.

Are people regularly opening Microsoft Office documents? I don’t think I’ve touched one since I was at school, which I finished in 2012.

I’d left Steam open downloading games and then noticed it had completely frozen.

Last time I used Arch it lasted about 20 minute before crashing and then failing to boot. I really can’t be bothered with that sort of OS on my PC.

I’ve done Arch a couple of times but don’t care to ever do it again to be honest. Maybe I’ll try Gentoo one day.

I installed Arch last week and it crashed within hours and then refused to boot due to an fstab issue. I switched to openSUSE and haven’t had any issues.

How much maintenance does Gentoo need once installed? I don’t mind a complicated install but it’s the constant tinkering I can’t deal with.

I’ve never used Mint so wouldn’t want to comment but it does seem to get a lot of praise and I can’t see why.

EndeavorOS would be my vote. Arch with a GUI installer and horrible theme.