if you run into any weird edge case issues it’s much more likely that someone else has already been there and discovered solutions

While that is true, the amount of those weird edge cases that you’ll get varies wildly between distros. In my experience so far on a somewhat comparable rig to OP, Bazzite has been the only one that actually just worked out of the box and had not a single hickup, while any other distro I’ve tried (Pop, Fedora and Arch) all had several issues that required troubleshooting.

So, I guess, for someone willing to actually understand Linux, learn, and troubleshoot issues themselves, your advice is the way to go, but for the relative who wants their system to just work and would call me anyway at any sign of trouble, I’m recommending Bazzite (or Aurora, I guess) all the way

You could try Davinci Resolve. It’s great, professional-grade software, runs natively on Linux, and has a very generous free version and an inexpensive, one-time purchase studio version.

So root still has write access to the system then

No, not while the system is running. The base-layer of the OS is fully read-only.

An update doesn’t write to the existing system, it creates a new one that will be switched to on next reboot. So the current system is not actually changed, hence the term immutability. This has two benefits:

• atomic updates: either the upgrade is successful and you switch over to the new system, or it isn’t and you stay on the untouched current system. There’s no way to end up in a broken OS because an upgrade went sideways.
• rollback: the old version stays untouched on disk, so even if the upgrade was successful but something still turns out to be broken after you boot into it, you can just switch back to the old, known-working system

Yes.

• In my Linux experience so far, Bazzite is the first time things have actually just worked out of the box and I haven’t had to fix a single weird issue
• It’s immutable with atomic updates, so much lower likelihood of the base system getting messed up, and it’s super easy to roll back to previous versions if something still manages to go wrong
• Updates happen fully automatically in the background, you don’t even notice it
• You don’t ever need to touch the terminal in normal usage. Everything is set up so that you can find any software a normie would need through the built-in app store. Flatpaks are great
• If you object to the gaming focus, there’s a variant that’s just for regular desktop use and doesn’t have the gaming stuff preinstalled, but otherwise comes with all the same benefits

The one thing I’ll give you is that it’s a young distro and hasn’t proven itself to be reliable and still available in the long term, but honestly, given all the other benefits, I’ll take that chance

wouldn’t RGB already include different temps of white?

Well yes, but actually no. You can produce white-looking light with just RGB, but the quality is going to be shit. Sunlight is made up of the whole spectrum of visible wavelengths, while an RGB will only produce a much sparser spectrum with strong peaks at green, red and blue, and not much else. Looking directly into the light you might not be able to tell, but once the light bounces off colored objects things start looking weird compared to natural light. That’s what rgbww lights are fixing by adding wider-spectrum white LEDs into the mix. For white lights, there is a number called the Color Rendering Index (CRI) that tells you how closely a light’s output spectrum resembles natural sunlight. CRI 100 is perfect sunlight, less than CRI 80 is already pretty crappy looking light.

Heard a lot of praise for it and tried to test it the other day, but noped right back out when just trying to create a folder in the dock was horribly buggy and repeatedly resulted in having a duplicate of one of the app icons in it showing on the home screen, weirdly overlapping the “at a glance” widget, and when I tried to fix it the folder just disappeared. Not sure if I was doing something wrong, but that wasn’t very confidence inspiring. Stock Pixel 7, so it’s not like I’m using a particularly unusual setup either

Well but distributed != federated. Which is why Forgejo is currently working on a federation feature.

Why are the bras all different? Why are the bottom options for 6-10 different from the others? Why are 8 and 9 basicaly the same? This feels somehow AI generated

It’s also straight up illegal under gdpr. Rejecting all unnecessary cookies must be as easy as accepting them.

I’ve also never seen a news story about it, because it’s so old news that I just learnt about it in biology class

That sounds like they blew the interview, not you