also seen mention of another candidate - Nobara

I have not tried that one.

I have been using Bazzite for about 3 months now, it has worked quite well for me on my two desktop systems.

I was using Holoiso last year, but had numerous issues, so gave up on it. The other similar distros, I recall testing, and not lasting a day with them for various reasons.

So for now Bazzite is my go to.

Side note: just noticed on reddit the /r/Bazzite sub is now banned for being unmoderated.

Not that there was a lot of traffic there anyway, but that is a major issue with Bazzite, it’s a bit fringe, and while a lot of silverblue stuff does apply, it’s still a small community it seems.

the OLED deck has the feature from what I can tell to wake in Bluetooth.

my older LCD deck, does not seem to have the feature.

two little tips:

you can backup your EFI partitions, in case you mess them up. I find it a good idea to back them up in any case, I have had EFI partitions get Filesystem corruption.

also the tool rEFInd can work as an alternative boot menu it has the ability to scan the entire system and show all found Bootable OS at boot time.

So with rEFInd, you install it, set it as the default, and it should show windows automatically.

it looks nicer than systemd-boot and grub as well. And it can even show bootable USB flash drives, and has a few other features.

I don’t recall ever needing the --user option, if the command is ran by the user.

if you were running the command via sudo, then yes, you would want the --user option.

Understand that flatpaks can be installed system wide, or on a per user basis.

if you are not careful you can install the same flatpak system wide when you just wanted it installed by the one user.

I wasted a lot of disk space and time before I learned how flatpak works.

I have my steam library on a second drive but I am not using the flatpak of steam.

I think it’s possible to have the steam flatpak use a second partition, if you use flatseal to allow the steam flatpak full access.

docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/…/start

shows the preview feature you mention.

rarely see steam crashing.

I have seen it with some Dock/panels, but the specific DE/tools you mention is not something I have used.

check the project page for the panel you are using.

And does uninstalling a flatpak app also uninstall flatpak dependencies that came with it?

from what I have seen, NO it does not.

delete app data after uninstalling?

you either manually delete the data, or there’s some flatpak command option, or you can use a tool such as warehouse which is available as a flatpak.