Nix flakes are a feature of the nix package manager to make nix packages more reproducible.

I'm not them so idk. Also I think Canonical uses a slightly different ubuntu logo these days.

ubports has been completely community maintained and separate from Canonical for longer than it was actually under Canonical.

There's an installer that makes a basic config for you where you can choose KDE as your DE.

Just accept that its not private, use the website (not the app), and don't upload anything that you aren't comfortable with being public.

You can also sign up with a burner phone number.

I'm pretty sure wacom drivers are just in the linux kernel, and also my XP pen tablet worked out of the box also. I haven't noticed any weird problems.

90% of people who use computers just need the web browser and some sort of office suite and whatever proprietary software their job tells them to use.

I don't think they would find much if any use to command line tools.

They can sell you a 100 dollar elite strap if the strap has nothing and is removable.

Meow mode in emacs uses the same philosophy which is pretty decent.

I think he's calling the website that is running non-free javascript as an additional piece of software based on his commment on "bulky obfuscated JavaScript apps."

It's pretty likely that its the Deckard, because we know they've been working on that for years, even before the Steam Deck was announced. I don't think that Valve has been working on any other hardware lately. It'll be pretty hype if it actually is, though I kinda bought my Index last year so I'm not hyped about it being obselete.

You should dual boot windows and linux if you want to keep using the Oculus Rift because there is no chance to getting it working on linux.

In my opinion its better to first test out some distros in virtual box and use them for the tasks that you would usually use your computer for. I'd recommend trying out Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian, and Pop OS. These are solid distros that work.

Once you find a distro that you like, you should start dual booting it. I got a second drive for that, before eventually copying all the files I needed over to the second drive and wiping the first drive to be my main after a year. (you can still access your windows files this way without losing any storage to linux) (steam games do not work when on windows partitions so you'll still have to redownload games)