The downvotes are not from me. I’m just trying to understand your angle and (perceived) frustrations. No offence intended here.

However, Bazzite IS Fedora, so you may run in to similar issues that have bothered you about Bazzite too.

This is actually a very relevant question: Bazzite is pretty much designed to avoid breakage, so if your fiancée is messing up the system somehow, something must be seriously going wrong.

But, to answer your question. If impatient, take Fedora with the same desktop flavor as her Bazzite, so probably the Fedora KDE Spin, as that is the default desktop Bazzite uses.

However: Bazzite basically is Fedora with sane defaults and, contrary to popular belief, isn’t just for gaming. Under the hood it has many powerful tools for development and power-users, such as distrobox and brew, coupled with being pretty much bullet proof due to the immutability. If you consider yourself in this group of users, it may be worth giving Bazzite another look and persevering to get over the odd learning curve.

Chuckled too much about “/s for the morons”. I might be stealing that!

Cool Bug Fact Is?

Do you think they did the operations for cheap or were they a rip-off?

Agreed. Bloody fantastic for general purpose. Seems like a well kept secret. A lot of people assume Bazzite is just Steam in Big-Screen mode.

To be honest you are in the right place already. If you take the first step and install Mint, Fedora Kinoite or something similar on the laptop, there are many people here who would be willing to offer you support for free here on Lemmy.

You won’t find a lot of support IRW/IRL though as many companies are still sleep-walking in the Windows world.

You will however need to take some steps for yourself. If you’re willing to get over that first hurdle, you will almost certainly find someone here to help you with any problem you have (including installation).

So, I’m an all-around Bazzite fan, but it does have a bit of an odd learning curve. It’s easy to use for a beginner, child, or grandma. However, if you’re used to fiddling with your system, it might be a little harder to get into because you have to navigate the immutable nature of the OS, which can complicate some online tutorials and potentially lead to frustration for an intermediate/experienced user migrating from Windows.

So my suggestion would be:

Child - Bazzite

Grandma - Bazzite

Gamer - Bazzite

Experienced Windows user - Fedora or Mint, then once you’re used to Linux, Bazzite

Developer - Bazzite

I personally use the Gnome version. It’s really polished and pretty.

En garde!

May I maybe get Rive Wreck if no-one has claimed it?

Snuffed it.

Not specifically a joke, but more intended to make thought processes skip a little and to amuse:

My friend: “Didn’t they teach you grammar at school?”

Me: “no, she didn’t go there.”

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…and, if anyone ever tells me to check my pronunciation, I snap back quickly and say it should be pronOUNCEiation, while acting as serious as possible.

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In around 20 years I have gotten about 30 blank stares and one giggle, once. It was completely worth it.

It’s not about you, but rather about those whom you teach.

Completely agree with every one of those points. JSON has killed everything, with good reason.

Does anyone know what the (gifenv) means or where it comes from?

Agreed. Way better than gimp and much more photoshop-like.

It’s a satirical pop-culture reference to a scene from the movie Zoolander and completely intentional.

I can’t tell if you’re trolling or just completely uninformed. Which is it?

Have you tried not coming home from school?

Haven’t personally the need to connect tv boxes remotely- all of my mobile devices are handheld, so cell phone, laptop, steamdeck etc, all of which have pretty seamless wireguard clients, but I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t work with the correct Wireguard client installed on a tv box. The only issue might be really old android versions.