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Even if you’re rightfully concerned, they become non-issues in the author’s platform of choice: Qubes OS.

The reason (I think) they mentioned all of those explicitly Linux things, is because they’ve also stopped using OpenBSD VMs in Qubes OS.

I believe the author continues to make use of NixOS VMs withing Qubes OS.

Even though I’m a huge GNOME shill, I can’t help but admire the allure that KDE Plasma offers to those yearning for a traditional desktop experience and (above all) its wealth of customization options readily available by default; truly embodying the FOSS spirit of user choice and freedom.

none of the “main” distros default to BTRFS, just “derivatives” default to BTRFS

So you don’t regard Fedora (or openSUSE) as “main” distro?

I’m kinda familiar with that rabbit hole :P . Though, I didn’t quite consider your 3rd and 4th methods. So kudos to you for that!

While writing up a draft, I actually stumbled upon an (unfinished) article that goes over this subject in way more depth than I could.

Though, the author doesn’t mention NovaCustom that intends to combine Boot Guard, Heads and QubesOS certification on their devices.

From Star Labs their StarLite tablet looks very attractive. Right now I considering buying a tablet for drawing and a laptop for 3D modeling instead of 2-in-1.

Honestly, this makes a lot of sense. It’s unfortunate that all of your needs aren’t satisfied by a single device. Assuming that the drawing capabilities of the Starlite and Infinityflex are up to par, their hardware specs don’t come even close to Blender’s recommended. So opting for a second device may indeed be necessary.

Whatever you’ll end up picking, I hope you and your wife will be satisfied with the end result 😉!

I suppose we differ in our definitions. Which is absolutely fine, to be honest*.

For completeness’ sake, IMO it’s basically the intersection of Major Distributions and Independent Distributions. Which happens to consist of Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE and Slackware.

Out of these, Arch and Gentoo don’t have defaults, but their documentation uses ext4 most frequently for examples. For the remaining four, Fedora and openSUSE default to Btrfs. While Debian and Slackware default to ext4.

In all fairness, one might argue that Distrowatch’s list of major distros is arbitrary. Therefore, we could refine what’s found above by including actually data. For this, I’ll use Boiling Steam’s usage chart based on ProtonDB’s data. This ain’t perfect either, but it’s the best I can do. Here, we notice how both Gentoo and Slackware are not represented. Furthermore, NixOS poses as a candidate instead. For which, we find that (if anything) ext4 is the default. Regardless, it doesn’t actually impact the earlier outcome:

• Arch (and Gentoo) don’t have defaults
• Debian(, Slackware and NixOS) default to ext4
• Fedora and openSUSE default to Btrfs

Anyhow, what are the main distros according to you? Please offer an exhaustive list, please. Thanks in advance!

Thank you for the clarification 😊!

Thanks OP; now I need this 😜.

For the last year or so, I’ve been using Vimium and mouseless. For the latter, I’d probably use warpd or wl-kbptr instead if I could get them to work on Fedora Silverblue.

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