The best starting point in my experience is https://regolith-desktop.com. You install it and get a noob-friendly, pre-configured unixporn desktop out of the box.
Once you start using it, the rest of the obscure programs referenced on /r/unixporn start making sense too.
It’s improved by leaps and bounds in the last few years! Definitely worth a second look imo
I’m using Mullvad on Silverblue right now, through NetworkManager. Just had to import the wireguard config file they provide. No extra app/package needed!
I find the GNOME workflow very intuitive and have grown really accustomed to it over the years. It’s minimal and gets out of the way, while at the same time everything I need is accessible on one keypress through the activities overview.
I don’t feel at home on any other desktop environment. Even on Ubuntu I revert everything to stock GNOME.
mint for the win
There’s a script for installing Photoshop with wine on Linux: https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux
it worked for me
My experience with Flatpaks has been so stable and hassle-free that it motivated me to switch to Fedora Silverblue.
I am an atheist living in Pakistan, and incidents like these send a shiver down my spine. If this woman had not been sheltered by shopkeepers and the police had not acted quickly, she would definitely have been lynched and murdered.
The mob of zealots that had gathered around her was chanting "“Gustakh-e-Rasool ki ek hi saza, sar tan se juda, sar tan se juda”, which roughly translates to “what do blasphemers deserve? decapitation! decapitation!”
This country is fucked.