Vanilla Arch.

Linux was optimized to be used as a desktop OS?

They should upgrade soon. One of the LW admins said that they were waiting for this release.

A new official UI is coming, which might improve the UX.

through the lens of Lemmy-UI (IMO the worst way to interact with Lemmy).

Why?

Yes but they have KYC.

Lemmy does not have a modmail system yet. I opened a feature request regarding this a few months ago, check it out: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5110

The needed drivers should be provided by the kernel, so no.

No. And I hope it won’t have it any time soon.

There are no recommendation algorithms like in YouTube or TikTok here, if posts that are alike and get sonewhat the same amount of high votes, you most likely will see them one after the other. There isn’t a way around it really.

Anyways, it’s better if you subscribe to communities and mainly uss the subscribed feed along with a good algorithm like Scaled (gives a boost to posts in communities that aren’t as active as the others) or maybe just Active.

I rarely use the All feed, only when I try to find new communities honestly.

Normal distros

• Pop!_OS
• Mint
• Fedora
• Ubuntu

Gaming distros

• Garuda
• Bazzite
• Nobara

…or any other distro really. I’ve been gaming on vanilla arch linux. It’s pretty stable and low maintenance once you’re done setting it up and don’t tinker much and have backups with something like Timeshift in place. archinstall script makes it really easy to install vanilla arch linux with everything essential configured.

There’s JMP.chat or SMSPool (rentable non-VOIP) which accepts Monero.

KDE Plasma.

GNOME kind of looks nice but is too strict on customization.

Whatever nonsense gen alpha started saying these days.

no

It’s open source. You can compile from source.

Play games and watch anime.

TF2 Never gets boring. I’ve been doing the same thing in TF2 for over 1500 hours

90% of people who joined Lemmy (or the fediverse in general) are tech savvy enough to wrap their head around the concept of federation.

Be patient. It seems like they are manually sending out activation emails. You should receive it this week.