probably many people on fedora use steam flatpak (listed here as freedesktop sdk)

asus-linux.org community specifically recommends agains installing anything debian based (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) because they use older packages/drivers that won’t have required support for many ROG laptops especially new ones. their site and discord advice running either fedora or arch if you want the current best support. they also have tools to control hardware things like mux switch and rgb lighting and stuff.

pinch zoom works in inkscape, gimp, rnote and firefox as an example but for other apps also not at all often. yeah app support is for sure better on macbook i didn’t think about that.

it does seem to be more and more implemented at least …

emacs orgmode (+ mobile app) is incredibly powerful if you want something local and extensible.

The capabilities are insane, it can do TODO’s, scheduling, time-tracking, filtered agendas y lots more.

I have it synced with my iphone (the app i use is “beorg”, but on android a popular one is “orgzly”) and it kinda blows my mind

Barrier of entry for emacs is a bit high sadly

as someone who switched from a macbook to a g14 with fedora, the trackpad experience is actually surprisingly close on some laptops, I had few issues moving over.

energy efficiency is more something you notice to be better on macs (in most cases) like you pointed out.

for me efficiency is not bad, but macs are clearly ahead

good infos thx!

yeah, the firefox situation is indeed still confusing. you make a good point. deleting the stock one and installing the flathub one + ffmpeg-full(flatpak) seems the most straight forward solution for hardware decoding. but as you said still fairly confusing.

I still find ublue more confusing to understand, personally

nope, since fedora 38 this button enables full access to flathub. it also lets you install proprietary nvidia drivers from gnome-software with one click. hardware decoding via ffmpeg also works for flathub apps that require it.

uhh on fedora just enable third party repos during initial setup and you’re good. its insanely easy