This. Sometimes it’s enough for one person to be OoO and suddenly you can code in silence, work is being done, standups go from 1 hour to 10 minutes. No extra stupid tasks randomly handed out.
I wish that person at my project had at least 3x more paid vacations.
Rarely, but it happens.
But I can’t shake off the feeling that in most cases recruiters completely misunderstood or misrepresented requirements for the position to get me to the technical interview stage. Like scheduling me for an interview with a team heavy with functional, big data processing while I barely have any purely functional experience.
Non-technical people doing recruitment work is a scam.
My project is doing 12 of those. Guess who has another job interview round next Friday?
For best out of the box experience you may want to try Bazzite (https://bazzite.gg/), it will have pretty much everything included for gaming, except Microsoft Store as noted above. This system is harder to break by doing something stupid and has good documentation on their website.
Alternatively you may try a more traditional “batteries included” distribution like Ultramarine Linux or Linux Mint.
European Commision’s laptops run on Windows 11 and then they need to pay for AWS to do any kind of meanigful work… And then some devs still pick Windows to run on AWS anyway!