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Sounds like some pretty serious cons

Out of curiosity why do you like qubes? Having everything in a VM doesn't sound that great to me

I get that the main concern of it is security but what do you do that it demands that level of hardening? I've only ever got one virus in my life that I know of as it is and that was on windows

Generally I think "I agree with *.hexbear.net" is a pretty telling sign for the opinion that's about to come next

The reason people say stuff like this though is because while you can try to force it into behaving like windows, you're going to get a much better experience if you let go of that and embrace the differences

Tiling window managers, package managers and command line tools are all examples that you just don't really get properly using windows and they provide a lot of the reasons people want to daily drive linux

Pretty sure they didn't want to go for command line editors but helix has a much more intuitive search and replace feature nowadays where you don't need to type a whole sed command

It's not that it's not widely usable, it's just that you should be open to different workflows

An oven and a toaster can both toast bread, but you wouldn't expect someone who's just bought a toaster after using an oven to complain because it doesn't have a door or shelves

I've found vscode generally doesn't open as fast as np++ did

Check protondb instead of winehq, it's normally accurate and something like 95% of games are playable now

Though no games outside of steam, personally I don't have many games on anything other than steam that I want to play so I don't know how other launchers fare (though heroic is a thing for epic and gog)

Notepad++ I couldn't say because I only really use terminal based stuff now with the aforementioned million shortcuts, but I think kde's built in one (Kate) does exactly what you want

Nvidia drivers aren't that much of a problem anymore, last big issue for me was explicit sync which they fixed a couple months ago (though some distros make it a bit of a pain to install them)

Rdp not an issue unless the machine you're rdping into is using strict AD settings that only allow connections from other AD machines, you should use Remmina imo it's very good

Xbox one controllers should work fine, I don't own one but I've used controllers that present themselves as Xbox one controllers

Only controller that hasn't just worked perfectly straight away is PS5 and that was because of a Bluetooth setting

As for distro, bazzite is probably a pretty good one to look at, it's immutable so there's a limit to the amount you can break it though sometimes it can make more technical things difficult to do

MPV is a frontend by itsself, just set it as your default in your file browser and it'll play video files if you open them

Depending on the game modding can be a challenge. If mod organizer supports it you can usually get it to work fine, anything that supports mods by default will generally be fine and Minecraft is pretty much the exact same modding experience as windows

While you can do a lot on Linux without the terminal now you shouldn't be afraid of it as it can often be the quickest and easiest way to do things. It's one of the big advantages of Linux in general that the terminal experience is so good

I suppose I could write a custom script that runs sudo echo or something so it's cached

Have tried using it this way though the glaring issue for me is that I have to type the password at the end rather than start, meaning I'll start a rebuild, go for something else then it'll time out on the sudo password

What does remote sudo actually do I thought it was meant to be for doing remote builds over ssh

nix flake update && sudo nixod-rebuild switch

I don't think clientside anticheat is a good solution by any means.

Built in multiplayer cheats? Isn't that just pay to win?

I think people misunderstood my comment, I meant I think the ddosers and the cheaters are more or less the same group. Don't imagine the majority of people in the Linux community would think that's a good way to get rockstar to listen