Okay so first there was Unix. It was semi Open Source and a bunch of companies were making different versions that were becoming increasingly incompatible. That is why POSIX was created, it standardizes major parts of Unix. Linux is a Unix like operating system, meaning it functions similarly but doesn’t share any code. One thing that POSIX standardizes is the shell meaning there’s a standard how a loop works etc. Most shell on Linux like bash and zsh are POSIX compliant but some (like fish aren’t). This means a command that works one way in bash might work differently in fish. Basic stuff is mostly the same in my experience so if you’re not having any problems you shouldn’t worry about being POSIX compliant. If you want most of the same stuff but POSIX compliant checkout zsh. Fish provides documentation for adjusting your commands so I’d just ignore it until you run into a problem and then take a look at the docks

As far as I’m aware Photopea is supposed to fill the same niche as GIMP or Photoshop, though I’m no expert in the field.

Have you tried Photopea? It’s browser based but very good

From their FAQ

With WinApps you do the bulk of the setup manually, and there’s no cohesive interface to bring it all together. There’s a basic TUI, a taskbar widget, and some CLI commands for you to play with.

WinBoat does all the setup once you have the pre-requisites installed, displays everything worth seeing in a neat interface for you, and acts like a complete experience. No need to mess with configuration files, no need to memorize a dozen CLI commands, it just works.

Why Chatgpt and not Gemini? Also why no vpn? You could have put VPN by Google

We have Wine / Proton of course and they can run a lot, but not everything is possible. WinBoat is different. Instead of running compatibility layers, it runs a real copy of Windows using Docker and KVM under the hood. The developer explains it should run basically everything unless “it requires strong GPU acceleration or kernel-level anticheat”. It uses FreeRDP for showing the apps on your Linux desktop, enabling you to interact with them like you would with any other Linux app.

I don’t want to sound rude, but maybe read the article and not just the headline before asking questions

From their FAQ

With WinApps you do the bulk of the setup manually, and there’s no cohesive interface to bring it all together. There’s a basic TUI, a taskbar widget, and some CLI commands for you to play with.

WinBoat does all the setup once you have the pre-requisites installed, displays everything worth seeing in a neat interface for you, and acts like a complete experience. No need to mess with configuration files, no need to memorize a dozen CLI commands, it just works.

Timeshift is designed to only backup every few days (or however often you like), you just have to now at which day the system was still working. Sometimes the issue simply doesn’t appear when trying again, sometimes it’s not an error with your system so if you wait a newer update can be installed

Not sure if that’s as necessary with a atomic distro

Yeah heroic is very similar. Bazzite officially recommend Heroic for Epic, GOG and Amazon and Lutris for everything else, but Heroic has a simpler experience imo

For installing games i recommend looking at protondb, it will show you if a game will run/what fixes it needs. Where are you getting your games from? For I steam you should have a good experience with the official client, for Epic/GOG/Amazon I recommend Heroic (though lutris is fine too). If you use a other launcher your experience will be probably be suboptimal.

Bazzite is based on Fedora Atomic, so you will probably not be interacting with that part of the system at all. The official Bazzite docs are pretty good for general stuff, I also found gardiner bryants guide(s) to be helpful for getting started. If you have questions here is !bazzite@lemmy.world, however it’s not that active so I’d post to a more general linux community aswell