This is Clippy v2.0 and I'm sure it will be just as helpful.

Thanks, all setup!

Linux noobie here. Any tips on what to search for for instructions on how to do this? Bonus points if it has a GUI and is easy to use.

I'm no expert, but if you're installing both from scratch, my understanding is it's easier to install Windows first.

You might check out the 1More wireless headphones. They're my go-to recommendation for someone who wants something that's not garbage but doesn't want to pay full audiophile prices. I haven't heard this particular headphone from them, but they're known to have good sound quality for the price, generally by sacrificing some build quality. However, this beats out a lot of the comparably priced competition that sacrifices both.

My laptop has BT built in and it works fine with everything I've connected to it so I don't see why any BT headphones wouldn't work. I think you probably just need to get a BT card/dongle for your system and then you can use whatever headphones you want. So the question you probably should be asking is: what BT card/dongle works with my system?

Easier for a linux noobie. Some people want easy, some people like to fiddle. It's good to have choices.

If you're using nvidia and like Fedora, try Nobara. It's gaming focused and comes with nvidia drivers.

If you game, and especially if you use nvidiva, I'd recommend Pop!_OS or Nobara.

No, Tesla pushed a software update.

If you're not doing anything crazy, there's no reason linux should be any harder to use than Windows.

Once you're up and running, daily life will be pretty straightforward.

Plenty of great advice in the other posts that I won't rehash. One thing I didn't see mentioned is using a live boot to try out linux. You can basically run it off a USB stick before you install it to get a feel for what it's like. Most "beginner friendly" distros will have tutorials on how to create the live disk. Example for Pop!_OS: https://support.system76.com/articles/live-disk/

Admittedly I haven't been following US politics much since Biden took office and things calmed down a bit... so I was more than a little surprised to read that they're trying to impeach him. I couldn't possibly imagine what for since he's the most milquetoast president we've had in ages. Turns out it's not even him, it's "his family's shady business dealings" whatever the fuck that means.

Honestly, it's like the GOP has no concept of morality or laws and just heard someone say that Trump did that and it was bad so we should accuse Biden of it!

Le gasp! A billionaire doing something that's ethically dubious?!? What is the world coming to when we can't trust billionaires to do the right thing?

So all the choices are fascism and the only way to win is not to play? Yeah, no thanks, I'll keep voting, thank you very much, and I will keep voting AGAINST the fascists, even when the alternative is mediocrity.

I don't mind not being better off when the alternative is fascism. I'd prefer to be better off, but I'll take status quo.

I'm on Pop and my Steam will randomly just restart sometimes. I have not found any rhyme or reason to it yet. And I'm NOT a linux expert by any sense of the word so not much I can do about it anyways.

Name checks out.

Seriously? Gonna be pedantic about "semitic" and then intentionally use "Zionist" wrong?

I tried Nobara and really liked it. Some games didn't like my the hybrid graphics on my laptop tho and I ended up swapping to Pop. But I actually like Nobara better than Pop and would be using it if I could.

I tried using a guide online one time to build a linux router/firewall onto a passively-cooled mini-computer that I could leave on a shelf with no I/O connected... basically a replacement for the garbo off-the-shelf wifi routers that die every year. It worked...mostly. The problem is that the random little things that didn't work right just were insurmountable for a linux noob who was just trying to follow a guide.

I hate that spending money on the best ones you can buy STILL die after a year or two. And now they all require you to login so even more people can inspect all my network traffic.

I'd love to see a guide that's kept up to date for building a simple router/firewall, with sections like you have above for more information so people can unlock ports for unusual stuff or whatever. I mean, in a perfect world, you install a LTS OS and set it up and forget about it for a few years. Mine was like that except it required manual intervention every time it rebooted. If that wasn't the case, it would have been perfect and I would be recommeding it to everyone.