soon we will reach the magic number companies need to finally consider supporting Linux for once

I use WezTerm. Highly configurable and supports every image display protocol under the sun.

From a developer’s standpoint, one of the bigger pain points of Wayland is window embedding.

If you want to embed from an external process, the only way to do this is to have your application expose its own Wayland compositor and then have the embedded process use that Wayland compositor. No one has made a library for this as of yet.

If you want to embed from the same process, it shouldn’t be too difficult; you just need a wl_subsurface. However, this doesn’t work too well with most GUI toolkits.

Wayland is just radically different from every other windowing API, and I’m hoping that the GUI toolkits can adapt.

handling word documents

This is the biggest pitfall of Linux: Microsoft doesn’t make Office for Linux and the compatibility layers we do have don’t work well enough.

There are alternatives like LibreOffice, however, don’t expect them to be perfectly compatible with Office.

Everything else you listed is perfectly fine: Most browsers ship Linux versions, and those can be used for PDF viewing.

I’d recommend familiarizing yourself with the Linux command line, as most advanced system configuration has to be done through the CLI.

In addition, remember to do your research before asking for help. Good resources include the system manual pages, Arch Wiki, and of course, Google.

As for choice of distro, I’ll recommend Fedora, as it’s reasonably up to date with software and has a nice GUI for dealing with updates.

well, Wine does support WoW64, but the way it’s implemented requires you to install both 32 and 64 bit Wine.

IntelliJ for Java and Rider for C#. VSCode for everything else.

The way I see it, a Linux distribution:

• Boots the Linux kernel
• Has open-source software at its core
• Provides an “easy bootstrap” system.
• Does not outright prevent modification of system software. (This excludes ChromeOS/Android)
  • This does not exclude immutable distros, as system software can still be modded as root).

When I used Ubuntu, I had to install the .debs off of Brother’s site by myself. They provide .deb/.rpm packages.

Fingerprint sensor stopped working

File an issue to libfprint, your fingerprint reader probably isn’t supported yet.

In addition to that, they make nice FOSS apps that are great for any DE (see Krita, Kdenlive)

Also it looks like Windows, and that to me is a huge plus for anyone using my computer.