If you refuse to understand I’ll just refuse to engage further then, keep wasting your time on pointless discussions on free software built by volunteers and what they spend their time on. I’ll go back to actually working on them in whatever way I can.

Is the meme wrong?

Yes, it is.

basic functionality that should be in gnome in the first place

Who gets to decide what’s “basic” functionality? Each desktop’s team has their vision for what they want to implement. Something that might be basic to one person might not be in someone else’s vision or…

the devs don’t want to implement

…is being worked on but needs design. GNOME is design-oriented. It doesn’t matter how much you scream that something needs implementing if no one designs how that implementation will work and why it should be implemented in the first place. It’s not about “not wanting”, it’s about making sure that when something is implemented, that it’ll work well both now and in the future.

Note : I’ve barely used gnome in my life so it’s based on memes I’ve saw about gnome

and it shows

Imagine being this passionate about being wrong.

And so will there be more people to look into and fix the vulnerabilities, specially if we can foster a bigger community of open source developers by being a healthier community overall.

Have you tried Boatswain for your Stream Deck?

I was in a very famous TV show…

I wasn’t even sure I’d be able to game with it. I’m ready to break my Microsoft chains though.

Oh, don’t worry, unless you are really into competitive multiplayer games with anti-cheat software, you’ll likely have a great experience gaming on Linux! Just don’t forget to tick the Proton compatibility layer option on Steam’s settings (if they haven’t yet made that the default, I’m not sure nowadays).

In any case, if you’re wary if a certain game you want to play is playable or not, just check on ProtonDB.

The different names of Linux ‘versions’ are kernels, right?

Not really, the kernel is basically the only thing all distros share in common. The different Linux “distros” (as in distributions) are called that precisely because they have different ways of distributing the software they use to build the OS. They use different means to achieve the same goal.

Any recommendations on what ‘version’ to start with for a heavy gamer?

I am biased towards Fedora since I am a contributor of the project, but you can’t go wrong with Ubuntu either. It’s more popular so there’s a lot more content about it online if you need help.

The only thing I recommend against is using small, niche distros or DIY distros (like Arch) as your first. Stick with big distros with big communities and don’t be afraid to ask questions in the forums if there’s any doubts or if you face any issues.

It sounds daunting in the beginning, but it’s way easier than the internet make it seem.

Why wait for Microsoft when you can just…

The best time to start is now. The second best time to start is now.

Welcome!

Now, for an actual sane take, unless we do the actual marketing work in order to gather interest from people, no, not even close to everyone will switch to Linux, specially considering Microsoft has literal millions of dollars to spend in marketing and will likely spin this in a way that non-techy people specially will buy in due to not knowing any choice.

This is a PSA begging people to contribute to their favorite distros not (only) with code but with marketing. Social media posts, videos, word of mouth recommendations, advocacy, events, etc. If your distro doesn’t have a marketing team, create one, as most projects should already have done two decades ago. If your distro has one (like we do in Fedora), join it. There’ll likely be something you can help with.

Simple, OP and some people just don’t know what they are talking about. There was no “aesthetic reason”.

One of the big changes in GNOME 40 (that would be 3.40) was the introduction of GTK4. People used to assume that the gnome major versioning scheme was tied to GTK, so loads of people were asking the devs when GNOME 4 was coming out.

To demistify this idea of one being tied to the other they just dropped the “3.”, specially since that part wasn’t that relevant and started with the 40.