I usually recommend linux mint for it’s windows like aesthetic

Got a NVIDIA 3080

popOS has an ISO that comes with nvidia drivers but linux mint has a driver manager

my […] streaming setup

OBS works on GNU/Linux

popOS has a lot of features/bloat and looks fairly different from windows. If you chose PopOS update your system before installing anything so the package manager doesn’t uninstall your desktop environment

I edited the post to be less agressive

I know telemetry is a term for stuff like crash reports but I didn’t want to give them the benefit of the doubt

https is more about security than privacy

the government sucks

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