Just pick a distro. It sounds like you want to learn. I suggest arch. It does the least for you, is the least opinionated, but also has by far the best documentation (arch wiki is the de facto linux documentation).

The difference between the distros is otherwise simply what package management tool they use, and what packages are in their repository. Nothing else is different that’s of any importance.

You’re on Lemmy.ml They censor all porn

a robust charging connector

Wtf? Usb-c charging is the best thing that’s happened to laptops this decade. You’re insane to want to go back to the bad times.

That’s the whole point of an LTS distro. And it’s why non-rolling distros for desktop OSes make no sense

This is a perfectly civil question that is intended to make the author think about what they’re reading in the future, rather than spoon feed pure information

Why would having the build files exist suggest the package exists?

The backslash is escaping the space, and the forward slash is just how tab complete works, because it’s a directory, and you might be wanting to add more to go further down the directory tree

Yikes dude

Ugh thy switched this? Please don’t start with the enshitification of KDE

natural scrolling is intuitive because it’s dragging the content as though it were a physical thing

How is that intuitive? Why would you be dragging the content? You’re not touching the content.