Dunno it was fine for me always I was 940mx with their closed driver just nvidia dropping this generation as author of question have on nvidia 580 version but mint will be fine for him.

Wait make ur wife happy because of these devices? That insane how u guys were living 20 years ago let not pretend that this devices bring something really important that was not possible to do in old way in the past ,they gave just some alternative way to do stuff including all ur things u said.I am so glad that my family don’t understand anything in tech in such things and using just usual phone calls and for video they using something like telegram

Why not worked it basically same thing just different interface

Surprisingly Microsoft surface with GNOME disto what models works better u can find here https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Features#feature-matrix

Antix,Debian ,arch i386 project

What ur nvidia GPU firstly,and secondly u don’t have installed nvidia drivers

Before using docker u need learn how to use it,it would be problem no matter what os if u don’t know how to use this technology.Bottles yes or portproton,storage scan u can use gnome disk storage analyzer

None,we fucked up.that why I don’t wanna non arm non RISC currently see on desktop

Problem is we need vendor like pinephone maybe fairphone,which will able to run give us freedom what to run on device hunting and seeking for vendor which allowing to unlock bootloader and then install custom os it sleepery slope because it’s not know how longer they will let to do it

3,option create dkms module or buy Rx 580 for 50$

Basically all things works out of box ,I just installed rog control center to have control of fan,tdp limit,charging limit and supergfx cachy is having all this in the repo,be aware this laptop as any gaming laptop is hot,so for daily basic things even playing in cyberpunk I put power in powersave and setup custom fan curve in rog control center to make it less heating ,performance was enough for me in cyberpunk even with limited power save mode.While searching for laptop be aware there are two modifications of this laptop with amd CPU which have integrated video and without ,it very useful to have integrated to GPU because it works then about 4-5 hours.I have model with amd ryzen 7 7735hs which have integrated graphics.For more questions feel free text to private messages :)

https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/supergfxctl

Yeah I am using it with cachyos with asusctl tools like supergfx

Asus tuf a16 advanced edition double amd gpu

Depends from her hardware but generally Linux mint I install for everyone who is not familiar at all with linux.

U definitely not enabled hard acceleration in settings choose auto-safe in the list

I guess it not much popular solution about taking screenshots in this way… As far as I remember the newest versions of gnome does have this feature in their screenshot utility,anything else not coming in mind

It running in podman just windows VM and connection to real host done with rdp window capture from windows.I tried it not that bad can be used for office work i used it with tiny11

I don’t know exactly what u are talking about steam cause it just sudo pacman -Syu steam and that it .everything else if u have modern nvidia then do sudo pacman -Syu nvidia-dkms if amd setup then u will no need anything else .In the end as for beginner try CachyOS if u the most close experience to vanilla arch .this guys just do some performance tweaks while staying maximum vanilla as possible about arch linux

Idea of this distro different Rpm-ostree mostly not supposed to use at all or used in rare case to install some system driver or etc packages ,everything else .to install software it supposed to use flatpak,appimages and toolbox(I prefer distrobox which possible to install either and work both using podman) to create containers in which will be small copies of OSes ,u can install any u need Debian/arch/Ubuntu/fedora and they would be mutable in container and not touching with binaries libs and etc main system.

Backend of discover doesn’t know about that u did dnf update and think they are pending update in it’s database when y restarting it makes dnf update checks underhood and getting informed that there is no update anymore