Highlighting Wellbeing is good, although I still use it only to monitor my usage, not to remind me to end the work day; maybe I should.
All the other recommended extensions are not for me: I use only Vitals to show selected system stats and PaperWM to transform GNOME into a linear window manger like niri. Yes, why not use niri? I want that deep integration with gdm and I actially like the gnome-shell. No custom desktop bar can achieve the same level of toggles and integration for me. I've tried in the pre-wayland era. I moved on.
I always recommend Fedora or Debian these days. Eventually you get anything running with those.
But yeah, Ubuntu makes it easy for nvidia, but is also has snaps.
Anyway, I would always go with a main distro instead of something that is based on them. You're just a bit closer to upstream. That's at least my opinion. So far, it did not fail me.
I use rgdal in R to avoid doing statistics with QGIS. But for thematic maps I find it very useful. And for nicer looking legends on maps I use Inkscape.
The true power of open source for me is, that you use many programs together to achieve a result that can beat closed source software. It is sometime more work to do so, when you aim for near perfection.
The almost zero time invest for security updates on Debian is the main reason why I switched back to it from Gentoo. While Gentoo has stable package versions it is still rolling and I have to invest time with etc-update from time to time.
On the other hand, it was easier to get other package versions outside the repo into Gentoo without using flatpak; especially very old versions.
I like flatpak, too, but I only use it for less mature apps, I want to try and have a rapid relaese cycle I don't want to miss. Btw, on Gentoo I needed flatpak as well sometimes, especially for Qt applications; because I did not want to compile stuff I rarely use.
So yes, I find that Debian stable is very stable.
I will try out Fedora Silverblue on a seperate machine, anyway. But my main productive computer remains on Debian stable. [=
I have noticed, people just leave their chair when I arrive. I sit down, do the thing they did themselves the whole time without getting it to work and it starts to work at first try. Sometimes, idk, what they were doing but they are happy to carry on.
This happens more often on Windows than on Linux. Linux users seem to have more real problems. ^^ On the other hand, at my place there is a lot more Windows than Linux on desktops.
I always uninstall nano on systems with not much users. On the more busy and established servers, I need to leave it as-is and I have to adjust when visudo opens nano and I forgot to put EDITOR=vim in front of it.
Highlighting Wellbeing is good, although I still use it only to monitor my usage, not to remind me to end the work day; maybe I should.
All the other recommended extensions are not for me: I use only Vitals to show selected system stats and PaperWM to transform GNOME into a linear window manger like niri. Yes, why not use niri? I want that deep integration with gdm and I actially like the gnome-shell. No custom desktop bar can achieve the same level of toggles and integration for me. I've tried in the pre-wayland era. I moved on.