highly recommend installing linux on a separate ssd and removing the windows one for installation.

Also your steam library most probably won’t like being loaded from the windows drive, because it is formatted to ntfs, which isn’t perfectly supported on linux.

Another finn chiming in, linux user for about 1.5 years. Another friend of mine started dual booting recently. Wouldn’t say it’s common to use Linux at all.

Simple gallery (pro)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro

https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Gallery

(edit: didn’t read the entire post like a fool. No facial recognition but still a solid gallery app)

Most can be disabled. Mine looks pretty much the same as it did 5 years ago. Try installing the developer edition or nightly to test if you can edit it to your liking

Forbidden instant ramen

on ExpressVPN many servers are blocked but if you pick a smaller country like Luxembourg it can work

Could it be just mud with iron bacteria that’s dripped on the tree?