All Operating systems get more complex release by release, including the applications and all the different hardware platforms and peripherals. So there will be problems.

The “It just works” catchphrase came from Steve Jobs back in 2003. It didn’t exactly mean things were perfect but that regular people/non experts should not have to struggle with technical mumbo jumbo to use a computer.

While I like tinkering, I do want it to be relatively stable, not suprising me with issues when I need it.

I would suggest avoidig pure rolling distros then. Also bear in mind that usually the performance difference between distros is not really big enough to make a difference for most things.

I would consider something like Mint. But what I did on my new laptop was that I installed PopOS 24.04 Alpha and used gnome-session (“sudo apt install gnome-session”) on it, though I’ve switched over to COSMIC now as I’m writing apps for it and it works for my games. It’ll get regular kernel+mesa updates but the base os will remain “LTS stable”.

You could also go the Fedora (KDE or GNOME spins) route, it has a regular update schedule, this might be a great option for you.

They have shape tools on the roadmap for this free image manipulation app, until then we’ll have to use the two-step method of stroking a circular selection or use a more dedicated drawing app.

In any case GIMP 3.0 is a huge rewrite under the hood and seems to be attracting more contributors now, which is a good sign.

but the work hasn’t began for it yet.

This is completely untrue. The work has not only begun but the microphone driver is now working in development. Before it can be enabled they need to tweak various userland parameters and configurations that are different between each mac model.

He didn’t step down from Asahi, just from the Linux kernel maintainers. Another person took over the Linux kernel Maintainer role for Asahi. It gives Hector one thing less to worry about.

EDIT: As of Feb 13th he has resigned from Asahi. No mention of his alter ego Asahi Lina, she’s still listed as a member? As Hector is an incredibly talented and productive individual it’ll be a big blow to the project.

Yeah as far as I understand, it’s available with the xdg-desktop-portal Global Shortcuts for any application to implement. It’s available for both sandboxed and regular applications to implement.

NVidia 570 series drivers with Multi screen G-Sync (VRR) for Linux Gamers

Well, I settled on a Ubuntu derivative so I guess it’s in the family. It could just as easily have been Fedora though.