I use ckb-next to make my RGB keyboard work on Linux. Maybe you can find some ideas by looking into that project

My LineageOS phone already has a “share WiFi” feature that displays a QR code as well as the SSID and passcode I thought this was standard on all modern phones

So guests use their phone data to access a publicly available list of WiFi credentials and then use that to connect to your home network???

The pees were cut and pasted from another picture, but flipped during the paste onto the new picture

Humpty was the King.

You made me look it up. Uematsu isn’t dead

How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a “Linux Update” program like what Windows has?

This is known as a package manager. The package manager (along with some default settings and preinstalled packages) is what makes each Linux distro different. For instance, Debian uses apt, Arch uses pacman, Gentoo uses emerge.

Each package manager uses a different way to upgrade software. For instance apt update refreshes the global list of available software and versions and apt upgrade finds differences between that list and what you have installed, and upgrades as needed.

There also snaps and flatpacks, but I don’t support the use of those.

How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?

Yes and no. Open source allows attackers to find vulnerability in code, but also means more eyes are on that same code and able to fix those vulnerabilities.

Although permissions can largely be ignored on Windows, its critical to Linux. Its a little much to explain here, but a standard install is fairly secure because of permissions. The important thing to remember is to harden the root account (no remote login) and be very careful what you execute with the sudo command.

Many people [incorrectly] don’t use AV because historically Linux hasn’t been much of a target due to low adoption. The trifecta of software I use are ufw as a system-level firewall, fail2ban to block an attacker who tries to bruteforce entry and repeatedly fails, and ClamAV for AV.

Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?

Yup

And also, what distro might be best for me?

I think Mint is currently the recommended distro for new users. It used to be Ubuntu, but canonical has been doing some very anti-community things lately.

Manager knew it was a pro and wanted some cash to keep his mouth shut

Its a meta property in the HTML. Viisible to software, but not shown in the article.

I’m looking into a game manager and the other project I’ve seen that looks this polished is RomM. What are the differences between this and RomM?

Edit: GameVault is a Windows/MS Store app… Guess that makes the choice easy for me