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I've found vscode generally doesn't open as fast as np++ did

Check protondb instead of winehq, it's normally accurate and something like 95% of games are playable now

Though no games outside of steam, personally I don't have many games on anything other than steam that I want to play so I don't know how other launchers fare (though heroic is a thing for epic and gog)

Notepad++ I couldn't say because I only really use terminal based stuff now with the aforementioned million shortcuts, but I think kde's built in one (Kate) does exactly what you want

Nvidia drivers aren't that much of a problem anymore, last big issue for me was explicit sync which they fixed a couple months ago (though some distros make it a bit of a pain to install them)

Rdp not an issue unless the machine you're rdping into is using strict AD settings that only allow connections from other AD machines, you should use Remmina imo it's very good

Xbox one controllers should work fine, I don't own one but I've used controllers that present themselves as Xbox one controllers

Only controller that hasn't just worked perfectly straight away is PS5 and that was because of a Bluetooth setting

As for distro, bazzite is probably a pretty good one to look at, it's immutable so there's a limit to the amount you can break it though sometimes it can make more technical things difficult to do

MPV is a frontend by itsself, just set it as your default in your file browser and it'll play video files if you open them

Depending on the game modding can be a challenge. If mod organizer supports it you can usually get it to work fine, anything that supports mods by default will generally be fine and Minecraft is pretty much the exact same modding experience as windows

While you can do a lot on Linux without the terminal now you shouldn't be afraid of it as it can often be the quickest and easiest way to do things. It's one of the big advantages of Linux in general that the terminal experience is so good

Programmers don't get given the leeway to make the work they do of good quality if it doesn't directly lead to more profit

Just because you can take a hammer to it doesn't mean that's the best solution

In the right situation I imagine it could be a useful tool, much more subtle than just smashing the thing, less time consuming than taking it apart

Not that I know of, I meant it could be put in a pressurised spray bottle, for example a deodorant can

If it's bolted to a wall and unattended neither of those things are an option

You don't necessarily need to put it into the air supply, could just bathe the specific device you want disabled in helium from a deodorant can or something

I suppose I could write a custom script that runs sudo echo or something so it's cached

Have tried using it this way though the glaring issue for me is that I have to type the password at the end rather than start, meaning I'll start a rebuild, go for something else then it'll time out on the sudo password

What does remote sudo actually do I thought it was meant to be for doing remote builds over ssh

nix flake update && sudo nixod-rebuild switch

Shame it doesn't support wayland