Maybe TUXEDO OS is something you want to consider. From the description of Distrowatch: “The distribution uses KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop (…) removal of Ubuntu’s snap daemon and snap packages…” The first review mentions that “You can even switch between X11 and Wayland at the log-in screen” and Distrowatch also lists all the packages so you can compare if they are newer than Debian’s.

I haven’t tried it myself yet, but I’ve read some good reviews - might be worth a try. Let us know, what you settled with, please!

I’d suggest OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and one of the UBlue images - maybe Bazzite, since you mentioned gaming. But Steam and GOG run on all of those.

And how is that relevant in a post about “Linux Mint and Steam”?

In Mint most people recommend installing Steam directly from the website as .deb. There are dozens of informative threads on the official forums, which also explain some differences of the installation method, for example: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=427582

Also Valve’s guide on how to use Steam with an NTFS disk (which I assume you’re using) can be found here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

No I haven’t, I don’t have Firefox installed. Yes it probably is, well then I just have to live with it or use a different app. Thanks!

Thank you so much for introducing me to Liz Climo, I love her work and keep sending it to friends since I’ve found it.

first off, do you realize where we’re at? normies don’t frequent lemmy

No need to be passive aggressive, but if you think all people on lemmy are so tech savvy, then why post it here?

https://joinmobilizon.org/

Maybe you can also find open source communities in your area. After some digging, I was surprised how many groups there are in my area and they are always happy to get additional hands to organize stuff or run errands etc.

Sure it’s allowed, but we have these questions a lot, so some enthusiasts made some really great posts with tons of info, for example:

https://lemmy.ml/post/12123645

https://lemmy.ml/post/18268622

I’d recommend to read through them, then come back and ask more specific questions.