Paywall removed.

Start with Mint. You can always try something else when you’re more comfortable with Linux.

Nice. Hope it works for you.

Thunder is what I usually use.

Raccoon isn’t bad either.

It’s a setting that can be changed. Sucks that that’s the default, but Voyager can send original links too.

Here’s an archived link, since the page wouldn’t load for me.

Tasks.org seems like it might work from a quick look.

Private Space.

I think it’s a pretty new feature, but it seems to do what you want.

Pi-hole with cloudflared or dnscrypt-proxy are what the docs recommend.

Sugar on a Stick maybe?

I SSH in and run an update manually, once a week.

I’m not knowledgable and comfortable enough to let updates happen automatically and feel like I could trust it to keep running. Not yet, anyway.

Edit: But at some point I might do what another commenter said and make sure security updates run automatically and check other updates weekly.

X Cancelled link.

Archived link for you.

DuckStation is the recommended one these days.

Much easier to setup than ePSXe used to be back then.

Nice. Glad I could save you some time and effort.

Combine this with Windows 10 or 11 LTSC for a much better, less BS Windows experience.

Try KDE Connect for connecting to your phone. Works on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Also available on both Android and iOS.

I want to preface this by saying I’ve never owned or used a Macbook.

But most of what I’ve read online regarding Linux on Macbooks ends up with Linux Mint. And most of the time, peoeple specifically mention it because of Wi-Fi issues being resolved.

I’m not sure if there’s any additional steps or anything, but I hope this can somehow be useful to you.

Just to add to this:

Linux Mint is popular, because they are what Ubuntu could have been. They give you Ubuntu without all of Canonical’s anti-user decisions. They also have a version based on Debian if you really want to avoid Ubuntu completely.

Bazzite is also a very popular recommendation for gaming.

I’ve heard that KDE on Mint can be a bit temperamental. I assume because most of their stuff is focused around GTK instead of QT and adding KDE somehow messes with stuff.