Immutable distros like Silverblue or Bazzite are the only path I see that can work for normies. However flatpak itself has to mature more, theming anomalies need to be dealt with somehow for example.

Mint is only good to ease a technically inclined person into the linux world.

it's hard to get a permanent teaching position in China, i'm sure shipping "qualified" teachers to teach the kids XJT won't be very difficult. Not dystopian at all...

Napoleon was held in British custody.

You have to reboot yes, however only once. The step where you boot into your snapshot is redundant.

You are making it unnecessarily difficult for yourself. Rolling back a snapshot that you made before the intentional messing around is less effort than rebooting twice for seemingly no reason. Booting into a snapshot is not sandboxing, it's not an added layer of security against a malicious package.

I think he was at the very least rather gifted in some ways. Then his brain declined and then declined again and again. Substances + alcohol + covid fog + aging?

think not, you`ll get it from JW story.

You could buy any Asus gaming mouse with user replaceable switches and order a bag of Huano silent switches from AE. (if the noise increases or the switch dies just replace the switc+h)

This is not a cheap option, but could potentially endure for a longer time.

Forget Wine for GW2. If you are lazy just install Steam & add GW2 as an external game to run with Proton.

If you are not lazy, then install Bottles, give it permissions to the correct GW2 folder with Flatseal & then download the soda 7 runner in Bottles settings. After all this make a default gaming bottle, then change the runner in that bottle to soda 7, enable latency flex to lower the latency at the cost of slightly lower average fps & play. (7 is better than 8-9 for GW2)

(Bottles has some minor advantages over Steam & you don't have to run the rather vram heavy & slow Steam client)

Don't recommend leaving it like this, because if Awesome ever releases an update you'll lose your config.

Where exactly did you copy your rc.lua?

Chrome needs to be reinstalled every once in a while for some reason, or it will underperform.

Consistent illumination and shadows is a rabbit hole we really don't want to hop into.

Outside of very obvious anomalies even a trained eye will have a hard time discerning what's going on.