themadcodger

Do that. Install Bazzite, they go out of their way to make everything just work so you don’t have to. And since you’re nervous about messing something up, Bazzite has the extra benefit of being an immutable distro, which means you can’t actually change any of the important files that keep your computer running (not easily). So you can’t mess up your OS, updates happen in the background and only apply when you restart, and rolling back to the previous update is easy should you need to.

One thing to decode though is your desktop environment of KDE or GNOME. KDE is a bit more like windows in layout, GNOME is more like a Mac layout. Purely personal preference.

Bonus, if you end up loving Bazzite, you can install it on your steamdeck, which is what I did.

Second for Bazzite.

I’m using its non-gaming sister, Bluefin, and same. While I’m pretty decent at the CLI and have laboriously figured out how to make things work in the past, that’s not where I want to put my energy. I like that it just works and I’m not going to mess anything up on the system level. Containerization and rollbacks are fine by me if I don’t have to figure out how to un-bork something.

Are you looking for Docker Desktop specifically? Or will docker/podman work for the time being? If you don’t already have it, bazzite-dx comes with docker pre-installed, which would be a simple rebase to get you there.

OpenOffice has more or less been dead for a while. Check out LibreOffice, its spiritual successor, or OnlyOffice (which people have opinions about because it’s Russian developed [I think the guy is actually Latvian]).

Also, my vote is for Bazzite. Gaming based and works out of the box with constant updates as long as you restart your computer with easy rollback if something goes wrong. Hard to break your computer, but if you like tinkering it’ll have to be containerized.

Desktop is an important choice for look and feel so check out the difference between GNOME and KDE the two main variants.

🤷🏼‍♂️ When I had CL I could turn it on by enabling 6rd and it worked as expected. When I moved across town and got QF, their instructions didn’t account for it and following the same online instructions for CL don’t work. Others online seem to not have had any luck either, but some people’s comments make it sound like it’s the modem.

Mine is Quantum Fiber, a sister of CenturyLink. CL has it, apparently QF doesn’t. Or at least not natively, rather 6rd. And then possibly not on the modem they installed? At any rate, I haven’t been able to find anything online.

Wait, for real? Gen Alpha doesn’t know what a file type is??