I have a really nice OLED monitor. But most computers display things in a pretty simple colour pallet. HDR just makes everything look washed out.

HDR is great for TV/movies but kinda sucks for gaming anyway.

Just gaming, but anything that works in Arch generally should be fine in Garuda. Honestly, after using Linux for a year and trying 2 very different distros (Mint and Garuda) there’s really not a lot of difference between them for the average user.

I went Garuda and I’m happy.

If you like tinkering and tech go Cachy. If you just want things to work go Ubuntu.

Yeah. I’m not pro-AI by any stretch but internet searching powered by AI has made it MUCH easier to tinker and troubleshoot. The Linux community can be pretty awful when you’re new to Linux and trying to make things run.

VPN is the tried and true.

If you want to have them even less involved than that use your mobile phone data plan as a hot spot.