CaptainJack42

Go for it, I'm pretty sure there's a ton of people that would pay a shitload of money if you're able to achieve this for every possible position

On the upside, if he's finished with this he has literally solved chess.

On the downside, the heat death of the universe will probably happen before he's able to finish this.

The distro is usually not really the problem, the desktop environment usually takes up a decent amount of disk space and snap/appimage/flatpak packages compared to native packages from your package manager. At least when strictly speaking about the system and programs, personal data (videos, Images, music,...) is still the biggest storage hog. I don't think there is a good option, you could ofc shrink your windows partition and grow your Linux partition or just buy more storage, storage is really cheap these days. Additionally you can regularly clean up your system, delete the saved logs, delete unneeded files and uninstall unused packages/programs.

IMO most users that need to / want to tinker with such settings are proficient enough in the CLI and man pages to do so and will use the CLI anyway even if a GUI tool is available for it (at least speaking for me since if I use a CLI I know what I'm doing, with some gui I don't know what it's doing under the hood, sure I could read the source, but at that point why not use the CLI). Users that aren't won't really have the need to do so. And if they have it's far safer to do so in the CLI because you have to have an understanding of what you're doing and do some research than just clicking around in a GUI without knowing what it actually does.

winget install firefox --source=winget and you never have to open edge again, ever

sudo apt install firefox

sudo pacman -S firefox

sudo dnf install firefox

And even:

winget install firefox --source=winget

And than there is netflix, which refuses to run on android phones with an unlocked bootloader, not even using a custom ROM, just an unlocked bootloader

You do realise that's an April fools article? Ubuntu has an all snap packages desktop in testing right now and will most likely go down that route

Oh man not again, I was so glad to get an AMD GPU on my home desktop and not have to bother with this crap anymore and than my boss gave me a work laptop with a 3050...

I'm not OP, but what did he do now?

Currently using sway, but mostly for the lack of good Auto tilers on Wayland