EurKey

Interesting layout. What do you like about it?

90% of distros could vanish tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost. Without the software they are packaging, the ecosystem would vanish.

Instead of donating to the distro, consider donating directly to the software projects you’re using.

Distros write a little software as well, but mostly distribute software written by others.

System76 can’t feasibly support all the linux distros and their different versions. Especially an unstable cutting edge distro like Fedora. It’s too much for such a small company.

back to a Del laptop

Does Dell still offer laptops with official Linux support?

Linus likes to break driver interfaces every other Tuesday though. Meaning you can get stuck on an old kernel version, depending on your hardware. This happens pretty regularly for ARM based boards for example.

Your post smells of someone, who only uses their computer for fairly limited tasks.

Office/Adobe

There’s so much software around serious work, creativity, and productivity, that doesn’t exist for linux or is meh. CAD, audio, video, music production.

The main reasons I use macOS are GarageBand and apps for DJing. Anything audio still breaks far too often on linux or is otherwise a pain.

OmniGraffle is so fantastically great, there’s no linux equivalent. The Affinity suite of alternative applications to Adobe is fantastic and far above any linux alternative.

The nicest GUI application for git, nor the best diff and merge tool aren’t available for Linux.

Besides that getting support for commercial software is usually much better than for FOSS.

who the hell ever needs this?

People who love details and crisp fonts and thus own high density resolution screens.

HDR: did not even bother to learn what is

You seem to have moderate expectations towards visual computing.