BCsven

He should get an OpenSUSE boat.

If an update breaks something, you restart the boat with the older key, and magically its running again.

And in the background your boat throws old stuff overboard so you don't have to be concerned about it filling up.

Each Distro is effectively a different OS, so depending on what you run you will have a different experience.

I started out on OpenSUSE because a CAD software for work only was supported on RedHat or SUSE. NVidia hosts a repo specifically for OpenSUSE so I added that and it figured out the driver. So all those nVidia complaints I read about just never happened for me. No tearing or flickering.

My wife's old laptop couldn't run W10 so we put Linux on it. Every Debian based distro I tried would crash on install, or hardware error during boot. But Fedora or OpenSUSE worked fine (warned of error but worked around it). Eventually moved her machine to NixOS, and its been stable for years.

Just because a distro gives you pain, dont give up if you still enjoy the idea of Linux, there are so many distros that one will work better for your needs

There's a project that virtualizes those apps via containers VM install

No there are solutions. For myself I had to install a few packages Vulkan I think, and then add something via WINE installer. You will find help here and on the web. You basically add the missing components so the Wrong Code works on Linux. Forcing a particular version of Proton comoatibilty ia often the fix. Its not a Linux thing, its a cross compatibility configuration thing.
If you install Windows on the deck you might find it runs worse.

Running a cracked Windows based game on another OS it was never intendes to run on, and complaining the OS is the problem is comical.

If you like SciFi, here's some oldies https://lostscifi.com/all-episodes-of-the-lost-sci-fi-podcast/

They always do Free consulting on air, so if your issue gets to them and they have a spot, you get a very very competant answer

Send your question to the podcasters at 2.5admins, this seems right up their alley.

You took my joke too literally

Many people can't come up wit new ideas either 😜

Is not really relevant any more. OpenSUSE has been rock solid for 8 years. NixOS, just fill in config and it all just works

I typically use gparted live, or GNOME disk utily, so I don't know the command names, I slide the sliders and hit OK 😀