Not that I know of

Yeah. This is my alias to download music from YouTube alias yt-dmus='yt-dlp -x --audio-format opus "$@"'

I’ve been using EndeavourOS for the last 18 months, before that I spent about 9 years on Tumbleweed and before that, I was a inveterate distro hopper. Having spent so long rolling, there’s no way I could go back to fixed.

But I’m not in the US

Me neither, Europe here.

It’s working here. Are you on a VPN?

Surely, Richard Stallman uses GNU/Linux

Linux Questions was a good forum. I haven’t used it in a long time so I don’t know if it still is.

That’s one of them, another is EndeavourOS which is my distro of choice.

I don’t know about Steam OS but with EndeavourOS, you still have to keep an eye on the Arch news and make any manual interventions that are required. If you don’t, you can end up with a broken system. If you do that, it’s utterly reliable.

NixOS. A big learning curve but replicable.