The three “normal” suggestions are:

• Mint - https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
• Pop!_Os - https://pop.system76.com/ ; and
• Bazzite - https://bazzite.gg/

You may want to also post this to !linuxmemes@lemmy.world

You didn’t answer any of my questions, but you did give me enough information to solve this for you.

Basically, Google is stupid and bad. They won’t let you make a link to a specific thing that you open as a link on your homescreen.

The solve:

1. You go to a url shorting site, like tinyurl, and make a custom link.
2. you put your phone into airplane mode
3. put the new url into firefox, and once the page doesn’t load (no connection) you add it to your homescreen like normal. This re-direct will stop google from thinking that you opened the link as a homescreen shortcut.
4. close all browser tabs
5. turn airplane mode off (so you have connections again)
6. complete
7. Optional but recommended: Uninstall Brave

I can’t duplicate this error with Firefox.
What browser are you using?
What version of Android?
Which launcher?

That’s gross.

a spambot

Some games/software expected/relied on a certain CPU speed to run correctly. If your computer was faster than that, the software would run too fast. The turbo button let you toggle between the maximum speed your computer could go, and the speed that the software needed/expected in order to run normally.

Basically, there was an actual reason for the turbo button, it wasn’t just marketing on computers.

I can’t complete the survey because of the questions.

Some questions are single choice but should allow for multiple, like 29.
Some questions are too broad, like question 17, “why?”.

x380 for the 2 in 1 gimmick!

You may be looking for a “dock” instead of a “panel”.

Plank is a popular/common one, I do not have any recommendations for you though

I agree that it’s not the year of the linux desktop, and that people who think it is are very naive, but you don’t need to tell anyone to use the terminal for anything for many distros.

No

I didn’t see where the author brought up gender in this article.

Is this a Lemmy problem, or a problem because you are using an app?

Even for an AI image, that’s pretty low quality. The bricks don’t line up.

Wanting a windows-like environment makes sense. It’s not specifically Plasma, but Mint has Cinamon which is very Windows-like.

I don’t think they do. But once you’ve already started looking into swapping the desktop environment from whichever is the default, I don’t think you can call yourself a newcomer anymore.

MintLinux and Pop!OS are normally the two front-runners for new users. Basically, if you use Steam and you don’t play online-only games with bad implementations of anti-cheat software, you are good to game on either.

Make a USB that you can “live boot” from, so you can test out how they work with your hardware. Generally spearking, Mint works better with AMD, and Pop! works better with Nvidea.

Here’s the official basic guide for Mint:
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

And here’s the official basic guide for Pop!:
https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/