Procapra [comrade/them, she/her]

Wayland isn’t even adopted by every desktop environment yet. xfce, cinnamon, mate, lxqt, and all the ancient window managers all use x11, and all have their users.

If it works on xwayland, chances are it won’t be switched for a long time.

Devuan. If you need stable, and you like runit, thats the easiest option.

Debian isn’t unsecure because security updates for packages are still received.

Immutable distro…yeah I’m good.

• Updates inevitably lead to things breaking sometimes. If you want to avoid things breaking as often, using something stable (like Debian) would help.

• The benefits you are describing are probably because of KDE vs Gnome and not a distro thing.

• Fedora does things differently than Ubuntu/Debian (mainly package management, but there are other small things). Because of this, noobs & intermediate users alike will get frustrated at things “not being how they are supposed to be”

All that said, if Fedora works for you, keep on using it. I daily drove it for about a year before switching to other things.

If you are doing any downloads (especially torrents) you should be using a VPN.

1. Your ISP will usually send a letter telling you to stop, in some cases they’ve been known to cut peoples service.
2. Free vpns sell your data and usually have caps, but would probably prevent you from getting letters in the mail.
3. What is cheaper? A vpn account or paying for 2-3 streaming services?
4. I use a nordvpn account I bought from a reseller. Back when I got it nordvpn was still pretty good, but idk how people feel about it nowadays.

If they want to game, can’t commit to only playing steam games, and can’t learn how to use lutris, have them stay on windows. Linux will never live up to their expectations.

I meant more that, when it comes to newer bleeding edge software, some of the bugs introduced won’t be as well recorded and people won’t know exactly how to remedy your specific problem. Whereas with debian/ubuntu or fedora, often its as simple as typing whatever problem you’re having into a search engine, plugging some junk into the terminal, and it fixing the problem 90% of the time.

But I agree with your comment overall so have my upvote! :)

Tips for switching to linux:

1. Determine if your hardware will play nice with linux. If you have Broadcom or Realtek wifi/bluetooth be aware that linux doesn’t always have great drivers for those. Nvidia gpus don’t always play nice with wayland.

2. Certain anti-cheats for games just don’t work on linux.

3. (might not apply to you since you’re in IT) Try to avoid using obscure linux distros or bleeding edge distros like Arch. You’ll run into issues and not many people will be able to help. Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu seem to be the popular distros rn for most people.

I usually only run LTS kernels but I might make an exception here.