I use EndeavourOS. I know quite a bit about Arch, the only thing I don’t really know how to do is install it manually.

soon we will reach the magic number companies need to finally consider supporting Linux for once

That is, unless you define correct in mathematical terms. Which no one has done yet.

as if they can even move to China, its market is already dominated by domestic replacements for everything

A well-designed button can be incredibly satisfying. Just ask anyone who owns a mechanical keyboard.

Goodhart’s law:

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

A Linux user with a relationship?? Impossible! (/s)

Usually they work well enough, especially things that just involve repacking binaries (e.g. printer drivers)

And this, this is why I love the AUR

I use WezTerm. Highly configurable and supports every image display protocol under the sun.

One does not simply break userspace. You’ll receive more than just angry bug reports. There are restless maintainers who will not sleep. And the great corporations are ever watchful.

if all my DWM patches were on DWL

Nothing stops you from making it yourself.

From a developer’s standpoint, one of the bigger pain points of Wayland is window embedding.

If you want to embed from an external process, the only way to do this is to have your application expose its own Wayland compositor and then have the embedded process use that Wayland compositor. No one has made a library for this as of yet.

If you want to embed from the same process, it shouldn’t be too difficult; you just need a wl_subsurface. However, this doesn’t work too well with most GUI toolkits.

Wayland is just radically different from every other windowing API, and I’m hoping that the GUI toolkits can adapt.

handling word documents

This is the biggest pitfall of Linux: Microsoft doesn’t make Office for Linux and the compatibility layers we do have don’t work well enough.

There are alternatives like LibreOffice, however, don’t expect them to be perfectly compatible with Office.

Everything else you listed is perfectly fine: Most browsers ship Linux versions, and those can be used for PDF viewing.

I’d recommend familiarizing yourself with the Linux command line, as most advanced system configuration has to be done through the CLI.

In addition, remember to do your research before asking for help. Good resources include the system manual pages, Arch Wiki, and of course, Google.

As for choice of distro, I’ll recommend Fedora, as it’s reasonably up to date with software and has a nice GUI for dealing with updates.

This one got me

well, Wine does support WoW64, but the way it’s implemented requires you to install both 32 and 64 bit Wine.

Even if it’s Steam Deck, this just goes to show that desktop Linux is totally viable; it just needs more commitment from companies

Alice and Bob are friends at ${university_name}. At ${date_time} they cross paths.

Alice: Hi, I want to tell you a TCP joke.

Bob: Sure, I’m ready to hear the TCP joke.

Alice: Alright,I am going to tell you the TCP joke.

Alice: Here’s the actual joke. It’s hilarious.

Bob: laughs hysterically

Alice: I’m glad you liked my joke.

Alice: Alright, that was the TCP joke.

Bob: Thanks for telling me about it.

Bob: So, that’s it I guess?

Alice: Yeah, that’s about all I wanted to tell you.

Alice and Bob part ways and run off to their next classes.

IntelliJ for Java and Rider for C#. VSCode for everything else.