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  • The desktop environment is just the graphical interface. The OS doesn’t handle the GUI(not directly), some people run Linux without a GUI at all, opting for life in the command line. (Don’t do that) Plasma is just a flavor of it that looks more windows like (but customizable beyond a windows user’s wildest imagination). Gnome looks more Mac like.

    You might run across the term Compositor, this sits between the OS and the DE. IT handles graphical input(mouse, game controllers) and display. Wayland is newer with modern features, Xorg is technically more reliable but legacy and missing some modern elements. You don’t have to worry about this unless it comes up in a prompt when you install your distro. If it does, go with the suggested option in the prompt. Otherwise default to Wayland.



  • I suggest revisiting dual boot, despite your history. You want to have grub/Linux on it’s own hard drive, in a Linux style filesystem (I think i used ext4) and default to it in bios. Then get the windows boot registered in grub.

    Windows won’t know about grub that way, no way to mess with it.

    Windows 10 EOL doesn’t mean it will stop working. If sims has trouble just use win.

    Mint or a gaming focused distro. Not arch/endeavor/manjaro unless you’re comfortable with Linux CLI already

    I’ve used this config with win11 for a year now, zero issues. This way your partner can have less of a headache over your antics.