Hugging Stars

1. Use a separate bootloader partition for every OS. Windows is known for destroying non-windows bootloaders. It rarely, if ever, touches anything else. Many distros have a /boot partition with initramfs since grub might not support booting from the root partition’s filesystem. Integrity is ensured with secure boot, /boot encryption is optional.

2. LUKS is straightforward, and most non-DIY distros have encrypted root support built-in.

3. Gnome has Google drive support in the file manager itself, although it’s not exposed to CLI yet.

4. If you’re not short on storage, I personally highly recommend Flatpaks as they are containerised whilst also come with a sandbox solution. Avoid non-default frontends when using system packages.

5. Check out immutable/image-based distros like Fedora Silverblue. They are proved to be extremely reliable and need little to no manual maintenance since all changes are atomic and generate a brand new OS.

6. Avoid Nvidia GPUs. Their proprietary drivers are compatibility nightmares.

Just don’t remove it entirely, currently companies will at least pretend to comply.

bEFORE yOU cONTINUE tO gOOGLE sure is annoying though.

That’s the issue. Arch and it’s wiki are labyrinths for beginners.

For anyone not interested in tinkering all-day long they’re better off using fedora, debian or suse.

They’ll likely get drowned in the birdie’s gigantic pile of cash.