LTS gang rise up ^^

Well today I learned.
I didn’t think “third party” like homebrew would be preferred over ostree-rpm, but makes sense that you shouldn’t change too much from the tested main image.

For anybody else, here’s the exact caveats with rpm-ostree: https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/rpm-ostree/#major-caveats-using-rpm-ostree

Personally I mainly used it for fcitx5 language input method some years ago, but I see now that fcitx5 is included in Bazzite, and also that it should work as a flatpak or in distrobox, https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/2996

Do you happen to dual boot to Windows when at school, and live 8 timezones from Britain? Linux by default stores the hardware clock in UTC (and concerts to local time on the fly), while Windows stores the hardware clock in local time.

For keyboard, if you’re still having trouble, you can try connecting from the terminal with the command bluetoothctl . Terminal commands often tell you more details than GUIs about why things failed.

Regarding distributions, you are on Bazzite, which is an immutable distribution, meaning the root file system is read-only. That makes it a bit different from “normal” distribution. The upshot is that most things should just work and the system is harder to break. The downside is that you sometimes have to jump through more hoops and do things differently from “normal” distributions when you want to do some deeper level tinkering.

If you search for “How to do X in Bazzite” you might get fewer results because Bazzite is relatively new and niche (though growing quickly).
If you search for “How to do X on Linux” you might find that the steps don’t work because you’re root filesystem is read-only.
So sometimes you need to search for “How to do X on Silverblue” , because Bazzite is (sort of) based on Fedora Silverblue, which is the immutable version of Fedora distribution.

If you want to install some software that you can’t find in the app store (Flathub) or as AppImage, your next step is to look up the command rpm-ostree. It layers new software on top of your read-only root system. Changes from rpm-ostre take effect on the next reboot

The arch wiki is indeed excellent

It can get very in-depth though, sometimes more so than you need when just starting out learning Linux. So try not to get overwhelmed by it, OP :)

Also OP, since you’re on Bazzite, you should know that that Bazzite is an immutable distribution, meaning your root file system is read-only. So some of the “advanced tinkering” with system files from arch wiki or random forum posts won’t work the same way.

Improvements for Input devices (particularly stylus and drawing tablets, but any kind of input) is one of the 3 overarching “goals” of KDE at the moment

That’s awesome :) I hope they’ll ship a more up-to-date nix than Ubuntu. The nix-bin deb package in the Ubuntu is so old it’s better to install nix from the official installer or Determine Systems installer