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I found firewalld had so many options that it was a bit overwhelming at first, especially understanding how zones were actually meant to be used, and how each zone had a default handover for the unhandled traffic. But OpenSUSE has a GUI for it so I was able to make sense of it. UFW seemed pretty user friendly and atraight forward.

Also, search craigslist. People here at least, always have old RAM for free or cheap. Or even check AliExpress, I picked up 4 gigs of samsung RAM for $18 through Ali

This happens in the USA without face recognition

Agreed. All those things in your list are the hardest part of modern linux, if someone gets past the UEFI, BIOS secureboot hurdle the modern GUI experiemce is superior to Windows

Quite possibly. North America still has too much disposable income to start making OS decisions based on pricing

Ask India, they hit 15% Linux desktop use

Americans often call the wall plate the plugs, but technically in electeical hardware ordering catalogs the wall end is a female receptacle, and the cord end is a male plug

The irony is the USB keyboard- mouse -peripheral switcher I bought has the USB ports upside-down from normal

What is ironic is I bought a USB switcher for using Keyboard, Mouse etc with 4 systems; it has the USB ports upside-down.

Bazzite, it is already tweaked to contain what is meeded for gaming, and has isos ready built based on your hardware type. https://bazzite.gg/

YaST is great.