Do you run Steam from Debian repos or Flatpak?

I wouldn’t call it stable. To me that implies I can run it for 5 years and don’t have to worry about compatibility changes.
But I never had it break on me.

You don’t need a desktop environment, but it takes away a lot of config work if you want a full featured desktop.

Arch is the most “just works” distro I ever tried.
Reducing the workload of the distro maintainers by keeping packages vanilla and close to upstream, not writing a shitload of distro-specific GUI tools, and off-loading all the weird stuff to a user repo, is genius.
That way, there’s more capacity to focus on getting it right.

Other distros have a lot more “features” (looking at you, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu) but Arch just gives you a high quality package of the newest stuff, and it’s amazing how solid it is nowadays.

This is mainly data reported from desktop PCs, so no, SteamOS is not a thing at the moment on such machines.

KDE has the most options out of the box. You can make it look like Gnome, or act like a tiling window manager, or like Windows 7, 10 or 11, just with the options it contains from the start.
Gnome comes with almost no options. If you add extensions, or know enough to make your own, the sky is the limit. But I wouldn’t call that “customizable”, you can write your own themes for Plasma, too.
Xfce is another one that’s very flexible. But it’s very hard to get it to look and feel modern, it will always be an old school desktop, no matter what theming and added docks you throw at it.

Some make it easier, though.

Debian welcomes you 💫

Your main issue with Linux is that it doesn’t help you pirate proprietary software made for another OS?

Where in Germany? I have a huge stack of the recipes, in Heidelberg

Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance before you go your first pacman -Syu

And when people tell you that you shouldn’t use aur helpers like yay to blindly install/upgrade aur packages, there’s a reason for it. Read the PKGBUILDs.

The next laptop you’ll buy will be obsolete and broken before you’re forced to switch.

Fedora isn’t owned by Red Hat. It is a community-driven distro which Red Hat uses as a base for RHEL.
And you aren’t a paying customer. You can use Fedora without giving a single cent, or any telemetry data, to Red Hat.
Your stance is like saying “I’m not taking this free bread roll, because people I don’t like also eat bread rolls.”

I also recently switched back to Plasma cause Gnome somehow had issues managing open Windows. GTA Vice City launched and ran in Plasma but only gave a black screen in Gnome.
I tend to use Plasma on desktops and Gnome on laptops, and like them both.

If it’s a standard Debian install, look into /etc/network/interfaces .
If the wifi is configured in there, just replace the wifi interface name with that of your ethernet adapter, and delete the SSID and password lines.
But personally I’d use networkmanager and nmtui.

With Gnome you have no other choice.

That’s a really neat use case!
And a very clever implementation.

why?

I use KDE’s defaults.

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