Mint has a more noob friendly approach with almost everything having a ui and it is Ubuntu under the hood so there wouldn’t be extra to learn after switching. Popularity wise mint is one of the best stable distros with Ubuntu as its base with community support as well so if you have doubts you can most probably find the answer just by searching

It’s gpt due to the disk management, I went with it.

i enabled it to the boot order but the laptop is not picking it up

Tried with a SanDisk and that also doesnt work

Not with a uefi one , a legacy one I never had to care about since mbr would only work. And I created the ventoy mbr on the old laptop, and if that doesn’t show up means it is strange . Though one more thing I found odd was the efi partition does not show up on the file explorer in the new laptop but shows up on the old one.

Can usb ports die if you can transfer files through it ?. The bios is also what I thought so iam lost with that.

I tried ventoy with mbr then ventoy with gpt then balenaetcher and Rufus with gpt and then finally a windows usb through the media creation tool. None of them worked. It’s fine with my old laptop but since it was a legacy boot I am not so sure.

It works fine just the text would not be in the same format but the text should be fine

Have you tried pandoc ?

In college right now 2yr computer science, anything Microsoft is a pain to work offline. I miss the onedrive sync in windows i just use syncthing for that now .

I use onlyoffice since it has one of the best Microsoft office compatibility though I submit my obsidian export as a pdf for my assignments or records.

If you really need ms office or for group projects and you have an o365 account, just use the web version for it.

There is blendOS which is an arch based immutable distro similar to Vanilla OS with different DE options

No, it doesn’t use snaps for the packages.

It would since the app is a modified version of discord.

Fluent launcher is a powertoys run/spotlight alternative for windows if you want.

Same here whatever the DE has I would use.

Though most common answers from others would be alacritty or kitty which I see the use but feels advanced in configuration.

Well don’t know much about gnome since the first gnome I used was gnome 3.I never tried mate.

If I am correct mate doesn’t have many touch gestures so there is no effect for it. If you want gestures gnome or kde would be suited. I maybe wrong if so any seniors do correct me 😉

In the GitHub it is written that you should only use fusuma.

About that error, in windows, you have two users say administrator and user. Both the users have their own user folder,they can’t tamper with the others users folders right.

Similarly linux in default install has two users one the root and other the user. When you use sudo you are asking the root to open the file in its folder not in yours.

That is why forks like librewolf exist.

You can you will have to set somethings up for it.