Bazzite. Fedora based, “atomic”, has nvidia drivers and windows compatibility utilities preinstalled. Atomic means easy rollback after update in case if something breaks, and it probably doesn’t expect you to use command line much. It is expecting users to install apps with flatpak so make sure flathub has the software you need (I think it does).

I have never personally used Bazzite, but atomic distros and namely Bazzite are known to be very user friendly and breakproof.

Steam Link is available for Linux. I suppose that most Steam-things are.

What are Electron apps and how do I know an app to be Electron? Didn’t know Firefox was one of them. I’m running Waterfox which is said to be lighter than the official, with noscript and ublock

8GB RAM with 5.7GB really available, couldn’t find more info on it, and an SSD drive, if it matters

I do not need this particular feature anyway. Neither locally, nor in a cloud. But I’m not given the opportunity to know about it and turn it down straightforwardly. It works silently, it can be only discovered via process monitor, and the only way to turn it down is digging into the terminal, as if I didn’t have a graphical environment suite from one of the biggest open source projects in Linux community installed.

I may appear paranoic, but it’s collecting metadata from contacts and email. Even though it does not sell anything, that’s not the thing I’d like to have running on my PC. And since I don’t even use most of the apps Akonadi is designed for, it is just wasting my CPU time and RAM space. That’s why I call it bloatware. And it’s shipped preinstalled on Fedora. Another reason is that there’s no way to manage it with KDE system settings. Why on earth I can’t manage a KDE utility with the settings of KDE? Why hiding it so deep I can’t find a bare notice of it without looking into htop or config files? It isn’t that crucial for the system to be hidden so deep.

Modern DE ≠ unnecessary metadata-collecting services which you can not control within the DE interface. I do not want a “minimal” environment, I want one that looks pretty and is adjusted straightforwardly. Background metadata syncing has nothing to do with graphical environment. I understand that KDE is a whole ecosystem, but a service like this, shipping together with the DE, unreachable through normal settings interface is not what I’m expecting from a DE. Especially from such a modern and featurefull one. If I wanted to manage my DE with text configs, I would go for hyprland or something like this. It’s the issue with KDE that it doesn’t implement accessible configuration options for certain components. Hereby I’m not saying that KDE is totally bad. My main complaint isn’t the existence of Akonadi by itself, some people I’ll hardly ever meet in person would find its functionality extremely useful for a reason. But the fact it is uncontrollable with any KDE settings is dissapointing.

The actual magic of Linux here is that I can still find a text config and disable anything I don’t need there. Without ditching a whole DE because of a couple of things I don’t like.

PS. I have never been on reddit.

I do not use this widget. And even if I did, why do I have to have Akonadi enabled just to see a widget?

Oh boy