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1. Yes, Manjaro is European. KDE is the same everywhere. IMO it is not stable, but that is just an opinion. I’m not sure how many people use it.

2. OpenSUSE is relatively beginner friendly. Leap is the stable, non-rolling release, and Tumbleweed is the rolling, less stable but still stable release; Leap’s packages can be old, so you may not have the newest KDE. For this reason, I’d recommend Tumbleweed. A fair amount of people use it.

3. I’d say use Fedora or switch to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Fedora is more stable and used more, but OpenSUSE is European.

KTorrent (KDE) or Transmission (GNOME).

GNOME is the default on Ubuntu, Fedora and lots more. KDE is default on OpenSUSE, KDE Neon and Kubuntu.

Nice!

Didn’t Waterfox get bought out by an ad company?

Firefox with Arkenfox. I’m not going to help the Chromium monopoly. The changes suck, but oh the hell well.

Edit: Switched to Librewolf because I was too lazy to reinstall Arkenfox. It’s great!

Bazzite would be a great choice in my opinion. It’s meant for gaming, has drivers preinstalled and is immutable (basically impossible to break). I’d suggest using KDE because it’s Windows-like and is the default for desktop mode on SteamOS.

Hopefully Wayland does sort everything out before it releases

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As much as I love Wayland, they really should keep support for those who have to use X11.

Raspberry Pi OS or antiX.

You are right. After thinking about it, it’s probably safer to use the layered package. I’ll edit my comments to reflect that.

That’s very true. It’s probably safe, but even still, it’s safer to use the layered package. I should’ve pointed that out. Thank you for reminding me. (-:

What about the flatpak?

Yeah, just using the OpenVPN file (which is natively supported by networkmanager) is way cleaner, even if you don’t get all the features. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s possible to use it on immutable distros.

Why should it be layered?

You can get it on Flathub. However as pointed out by other commenters, it is unofficial.

Install harder distros (preferably on bare metal) and use them. If you need to fix something, google it. This helped me a lot.

The default terminal (varies) gets switched to Kitty. VLC to MPV.

Okular instead of the default PDF editor (varies).

Text editor (varies) to Vim.

I usually just install Arkenfox, but if I’m feeling lazy I’ll use Librewolf.

I prefer doas, but I don’t usually switch to it.

I rebind my caps lock key (most useless key ever) to escape.

I’d say VSCodium, Kate or Vim. VSCodium if you want something like VSCode, Kate for just an absolutely amazing IDE or Vim if you want to try something new.

Fedora KDE. It’s easy to setup, modern, customizable and fast. Only issue is that it doesn’t come with proprietary codecs, so that could be a problem.

Second would be Mint, it’s only flaws is that it ships an older kernel (might be a pain) and uses X11 (insecure).