When I was building a new dedicated Linux gaming PC, I opted for Mint as my Distro because of all of the recommendations and the very helpful compatibility database which gave me more confidence in the new components I was picking out. What ultimately killed my interest in Mint with the Cinnamon DE was the use of X11 and I had an issue with screen tearing that no amount of tweaking could fix.

After forcing Mint to use a newer kernel version, so it could actually detect my Radeon 9060XT, and making my system unbootable while trying to edit the X11 config file, I ultimately switched to Fedora Workstation which uses Wayland. This solved my problem and also allowed me to use variable refresh rate and HDR with no issues. I am not using the rolling release version of Fedora; the versions I am getting appear to be stable and only a few weeks/months behind.

As a Win10 end-of-support refugee, I ended up on Fedora Workstation which uses GNOME as the DE and I have really enjoyed how clean and functional it is for me. I guess I just don’t care enough about extensions and customization to want to use anything else so the common complaints about GNOME don’t affect me.

In sharp contrast, when I demo’d the KDE version of Fedora using a LiveOS on USB, I immediately disliked it and stuck with Workstation. I have been daily-driving Windows based operating systems since 1995, and grew up in an exclusively Apple/Mac household; so having experienced all three, Linux with GNOME has been the coziest option and meets 100% of my needs.

I can appreciate that others have strong opinions on this, but I don’t have any issue going between Win11 at work and Fedora Workstation at home and it just makes me love my Linux system even more.

TL/DR: I despise MicroSlop and their persistent enshittification of their products and user experience; Linux with GNOME allows me to experience something simplified and clean that looks nothing like what MS offers.

Had this bad-boy since like 2015 and its finally starting to misclick on occasion. Shame I didn’t buy a backup and Anker stopped making them a while back since the DS-2368 was the best budget gaming mouse I have ever found for my hand size and grip. I have tried about 4 other models with similar profile and nothing quite touches it. Going to be a sad day when it finally gives up and dies. Similarly to what you mention, the Basilisk V3 is also the closest fit and it has decent linux support so that is my backup plan.

+1 Fedora (Workstation, in my case) When I set up Fedora on the machines I loaded it on, I normally allocate 50 GB to /root and the balance of the space to /home after setting up my swap and /boot partitions. This has worked well for me so far, YMMV. It also sounds like its not a bad idea to leave a small percentage of a drive un-allocated but I haven’t done this personally.