nerdschleife

Thank you for the detailed reply. I am not too bothered with PS and the rest working natively or with gpu acc (I don't do advanced work) but I'll save this for later

I've had instances where the system breaks,usually when I don't update for a while. I don't want to face that on my 'stable' machine

Always the high seas for me and corporations

I do use krita / gimp on my laptop for quick edits. I'm not a professional by any means, the time sunk into learning these in depth isn't really worth it for me.

Will take a look at this as well.

I've found the package manager to be infuriatingly slow

We Dota 3 now

I’m afraid there is no quick way to get an honest recommendation. I usually resort to YouTube and spend 2-3 days watching some related content. It sorta filters itself out, there will be a creator or few that you vibe with, and you trust their choice.

Happened to me with audio gear (I trusted crinacle, for example.)

Namida. It's excellent and the only thing I wish it had was a bitrate display

Xnconvert for some of these tasks

Aww yiss Dota 2

I use a raspberry pi 4 with 3 simultaneous sessions sometimes. Direct play, it works fine. It can't transcode at all, though.