BennyCHill [he/him]

Yep. Thats wood…

both intel and amd have introduced memory encryption a couple gens. ago although not supported on all devices.

TPM uses parts of your system like hardware configuration, bios version, can even use parts of the OS, to generate a hashcode to decrypt your drive, so if anything gets replaced it wont automatically decrypt. what this allows is to have a much more complex decryption key and allows you to rely on OS security and much simpler passwords to protect your data because your OS (which cannot be replaced without breaking TPM) will protect against brute force attacks with retry delays and limits.

Did you let fedora create the partitions or did you do manual partitioning?

Tiling Shell has been my favorite tiling manager so far, works just like fancyzones on windows, but also makes the widget that pops up on the top of the screen when moving windows have your custom layouts.

Despite snaps, ubuntu is still one of the most stable distros. i had less issues with ubuntu than i had with either fedora or opensuse (leap and tumbleweed).

Its not proprietary but flatpak is “taking the android route” as in providing a “app store” with sandboxed apps and standardized runtimes whose permissions can be limited and expanded at runtime by requesting the user. they already have a system for tipping devs and IIRC also wanna include a way to pay for apps.

The proprietary version of this would be Ubuntus snaps, but since the proper functionality of them is limited to ubuntu as the only distro i doubt they will take off

Pls stop giving billion dollar corporations so much credit.

The difference comes from windows dominant (home pc) market position meaning that almost all software and hardware is specifically made to work with it, with even things that officially support linux being afterthoughts.