People here seem to have not answered all your questions, so ill try to here:

1. Im not a text editor power user so i dont know about the features meself, but vscode or kate seem like what you want, although you can also simply just run Notepad++ through wine.

2. Looks like you can run Itunes through wine, but i dont use any apple devices so i would not know.

3. GOG games work great with heroic games launcher, and you can run EA app through wine with lutris.*

4. perfect.

5. i use haruna and celluloid, theyre both great.

6. no clue

7. there are several batch renamer tools for linux, Krename looks like what you are looking for.

8. With kde at least, you can make keyboard shortcuts for most everything.

9. if its not packaged for your distro, you have to compile it. But most apps nowadays are available in flatpak or appimage, so the package segmentation problem is mostly solved. *

also, very important!!, you should install apps from the app store, it takes care of selecting the best version and updating it and everything, you should avoid installing apps like on windows.

10. Given you are a power user i would strongly recommend something kde based, kde has the most complete gui configuration out of the big linux de’s, and offers many advanced options. Good distros that ship kde include fedora and tuxedoOS*

Also, you shouldnt try to replicate your windows workflow exactly in linux, that’s a recipe for failure, you should try to find better (linux) ways of doing things.

*i skimmed over details, ask if you want clarification.

But it wont, x had to accomodate every desktop’s needs, wayland is the way it is specifically so desktop can implement wat they need, and only the common stuff has to be part of the official protocols

French 🫵

The progress on this is crazy

Although there is an argument for not using it on (very) old systems

I always figured the reason arm chips tend to be more effecient is that theyve been developped for phones

I love the deck just for that, im so happy valve is breaking the cycle of not enough pkayers not enough games

There is no alternative theme, when it comes to rounding or spacing

Wierd, given all the penguins are there

Suprised that forbes is reporting about linux