Yea sure, you can go and do all that. Im just speaking from my personal experience. There were no experiments, it's just the behavior I notice from Windows before the device gets the Linux treatment.
Probably, android devices and especially Samsung can be locked down. I don't know your model though I feel like there are 4,327 variants of "galaxy note".
No I did not have GPU accel. I'm curious what you are referring to losing work due to a misclick? Personally I don't use desktop icons. I'm a previous i3 user so I am used to using my computer with a non traditional interface.
As someone who tried out MacOS in a VM out of curiosity I don't find gnome to be like MacOS at all in overall functionality. I think to most people it just looks like Mac because top bar, dock and some design choices. Really though gnome is much more like Android. MacOS felt extremely clunky to use vs gnome's fluid workspace and app switching.
Some of these things might just be the usual Windows problems...like with the heat and fan noise. I have seen huge differences in a few machines (x86 tablet/HP laptop/thinkpad) running Linux vs running Windows. The machines running Linux hardly make a peep until you play a game or compile something. On Windows they were hot and noisy af, night and day difference.
Well I know my local army base (US) was looking for Linux sys admins, so I figure they have some servers on base.
HP by chance? Had this happen to a 360 HP laptop (and I almost never used that functionality!), repaired by replacing the backside of screen where it screws in. This of course required disassembling the whole damn laptop. I was horrified by how cheap it was and now have a ThinkPad T480.
Also some intruder could be living in there with you without your knowledge. That's my irrational fear about large homes like this, too many places for someone with bad intentions to hide.
I can't be the only one who wishes these screenshots were mostly in dark mode. How am I supposed to browse this sub at night while laying in bed when I should be sleeping?
True, kind of silly you have to install an extension because the default gnome weather won't just let you use open weather.
It doesn't use open weather unfortunately. It uses the Norwegian Meteorology Institute and their weather prediction is poor/entirely inaccurate for much of the world. I do wish open weather was an option especially since it's easy to get your own weather api key.
If you are super new to Linux I would suggest another distro besides Debian. Debian is great and I love it but it's not set up out of the gate for games and newer people in general. Distros like Mint, ZorinOS, Bazzite, and Pop!OS are. Those distros will come with nvidia drivers or help you set up. Bazzite in particular is set up for gaming out of the box, I think it comes with steam and lutris pre installed.
Great Wave Japanese Abstract [1080 x 1920]
An old favorite I always come back to. Found another lower quality image on Yandex image search but no artist was listed, so I am going to say artist is unknown.