That looks interesting. Immediately wishlisted

Discord would be the obvious answer, but I understand why you might want to use it, my recommendation is using a client that disables some of the tracking like Vesktop. Spotify is also a major privacy concern, it can be replaced by Spotube (and to a lesser degree by Audiotube) which removes most tracking and is three and convenient. Also I’m not sure if I would keep using chromium, especially with manifest V3

I think the main reason is that most people who use Linux installed it on their own and at that point no parental control is stopping you.

Nobara doesn’t use Firefox from fedoras repos, that’s why it is outdated. The Firefox flatpak is officially from Mozilla, or you can download the latest .tar.gz from their website, but then you won’t have the regular update system.

Parental controls are one of the under developed parts of Linux, the only major one I know of is timekpr

For Wine: Microsoft 365 and anything Adobe notoriously doesn’t work with wine, any solution will most likely not be permanent.

For Premiere: Kdenlive is the best open source alternative IMO and there also DaVinci Resolve which has a free and a pro version. It is also more professional. Be aware DaVinci has problems with GNOME, which is the default environment of Ubuntu.

For distro: Nowadays Linux Mint is the best for user friendliness. If you will be going for a tilling window manager, the typical easy distros won’t make that much of a difference as you will be replacing a large part of it. You could probably do everything with KDE though with window rules and this, if you are going to use KDE then maybe use Kubuntu, it is a official version of Ubuntu with KDE. Ubuntu flavors

LMDE uses Debian repos which are very well tested, meaning stuff like the XZ back door will most likely not affect you because it is found before you get the update. ClamAV is not designed to recognize malware for Linux only on Linux, so not what you want in your case. My recommendation is to stick to distro packages (well tested) or flathub (sandboxed), which are available in mints app manager. If that isn’t an option try getting the software as an appimage, it isn’t sandboxed but also doesn’t have root access. Otherwise general rules apply: be wary of sketchy websites, use ublock with the malware filter list etc.

Not sure, but maybe this is a pipewire vs pulseaudio thing. Enable pipewire on Debian

That remove all instances feature could save me a lot of trouble

The video is also on Odysee, but for me there is no marking.

I find it kind of suspicious that the extension (the fake spot one to) are proprietary.

Endeavour OS is exactly es stable as arch, and Manjaro tends to break more often than arch due to dependency issues. Debian and Arch are questionable for beginners, I would always recommend Mint as the first option for beginners. Also Mint has an easy NVIDIA setup, so I don’t think that is an advantage of pop OS compared to it. Nowadays NVIDIA is fine on Linux, especially on distros like pop OS, Mint or Aurora that makes the setup easy.

You could create a live usb on another device and then use chroot

But lmstudio isn’t FOSS no?

According to their GitHub the art is BSD licensed and the rest GPL

Way more models available, faster in my experience, more reliable, local ChatGPT compatible api and advanced fine tuning features. There have been some additions to Alpaca since I last used it, so maybe I will try it again soon but since I don’t use it regularly I use GPT4ALL because it just works, and when I tried Alpaca didn’t.

I have used Alpaca in the past, but personally I prefer GPT4ALL as it seems to be more complete.

This is not an engine, this is the freedoom equivalent for quake. You will need a quake engine like QuakeSpasmSpiked and then follow the how to play instructions.

All of the Quake data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from the original game, but if you do a true total conversion, you can create a standalone game based on this code.

As I understand it the engine is Foss but the assets aren’t, like the doom engine vs the doom wad.

Not OP, but for me bazzite has been great. The only issue I encountered was with a KDE extension breaking KDE on the next update, but I could just rollback and remove and admittedly you could only encounter this problem if you tinker with the desktop a lot