I’ve been using Fedora for years across several devices. I’ve only seen my device compatibility improve over the last few releases. For example, my HP Victus laptop’s camera would work but not the mic, this has been fixed. My desktop runs several monitors with no issues and keyboard shortcuts have never done anything goofy. It is my preferred distro so I am biased but I’ve used a lot of others and I think Fedora is one of the more consistently good distros.

I use it in truenas with no issues. Might be worth it to spin up a vm and run it that way.

I’m in IT so my searches are primarily geared towards solving technical issues. I’ve no complaints. The summarizer is also nice if you don’t want to read four paragraphs for two sentences of information.

GrapheneOS works well. But only on pixel devices.

Atuin Magic Shell History is pretty good.

If you’re looking for a wide range of games tested, NizVicious. FreddysGamingBenchmark focuses on the steam deck. EtaPrime usually test all his builds in linux at some point but it’s mostly the same games as he’s a hardware channel (newer titles get added though).

TrueNas gives you a lot of options and it isn’t too obtuse. I recommend Scale over Core. Avoid it if you only have the one drive as the os won’t share its drive with the rest of the system. Also, while you can use it with only one “storage” drive, it will complain because it uses ZFS and expects you to set up redundency across at least two drives. Might be a hassle for your form factor, but worth a look.

Unless the info is out of date (which is likely) kern.log syslog or messeges.

Have you checked the logs in /var/logs?

Watch a truenas setup for it snd compare the permissions maybe? I got it working on my truenas server but it takes a long time to spin up so it seemed borked but was just slow to start. Not directly comparable, I know, but any port in a storm.

Use the comments on protondb. They often list tweeks and troubleshooting steps that have been taken. Check steam community posts for specific games. You can also make your own post if nobody else has had your issue. General searches will usually get you where you need to go. I use kagi but generally anything not google works.

Konosuba?

The only thing that I’ve encountered that may be relevant, the flatpack version of steam on popOS had issues and after installing from apt my games started working as expected. So possibly reinstall steam with apt vs the popshop.

If there is a pin set, decimal on the numpad, else Ctrl or ESC.

It’s easy to recover… if you’re on site.

A used Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy should be pretty cheap. Just make sure they support whichever version of Android you want to develop on. Pixel 6’s are under $200 USD on eBay currently and should all be upgradable Android 14.

Krita is pretty good.

From what I’ve read, it seems to be a compromise to me. I imagine the dev team didn’t want to do it but compromised with the publisher and in reality they probably don’t want you to buy the dlc, as it defeats some of the design decisions. There’s a good pcmag article detailing the dlc and how impactful it is. My guess is that the general opinion of any reviewers would remain the same regardless (with the context of the pcmag article).

Stars Without Number is a fun system. Traveller can be a bit complex but the character generation is the best.

I would double check that the cpu isn’t too hot for the cooler. I know the i9’s would likely throttle with a single tower cooler but I am unsure of the i7’s. Everything else seems fine.