I use gdu personally

Flatpak is surprisingly low

Secure != stable Immutable distros aren’t always more secure but rather more stable and hard to break Also btw nixos can apply updates without rebooting

More like familiar and unfamiliar

Have you tried theming gnome? There’s a ton of videos on youtube if you’re a beginner, i wonder if you’ll have the same thoughts after theming it

It’s transparency and blur, gnome favors performance over looks (not that it looks bad), you can get the same look on gnome if u theme it

Soulseek has everything literally. most common stuff are actually flac files

Now nixos

Personally i use udiskie

Try ntfsfix command

lsblk

This command will list your drives find the ntfs partition it will be something like: /dev/sda1 Then run ntfsfix on that partition as root

sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1

If you still boot windows you should disable fast startup it can cause this issue, Good luck!