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Is Linux (dumb)user friendly yet?
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Mint should be pretty easy to get used to, solid choice IMO, as for the programs
If you're fine with libreoffice, no problems
Don't know.
No problems
Not sure if there's a flatpak, U might need to add a PPA, but it's just a one time copy/paste a few commands.
Works fine, but some games might not run or require some tinkering, check games u play on protondb.com
It's a bit annoying because they require u to have the latest version all the time, it won't auto update, and the package might take a while to update, so u either download and update manually every time (it will be a different install than the flatpak package) or use the web version, peraonally i just run a script to download and extract the
tar.gzversion when there's an update.There are also 3rd party interfaces which are basically web client wrappers that add some features.