Debian might work but it will always be behind and if any performance upgrades are done at a kernel level or a DE then you won't get them until those fixes are potentially already obsolete.

Nvidia obviously

I'd have to check but I think the only EA game I even care one iota about would be Dead Space. But I already got the remake for free on PS5 and I pretty highly doubt they'll remake the other two so.. I'm good

Is he even very tech savvy? Like IIRC he tried to install a Linux Desktop once. And on installing steam he went ahead with the terminal prompts that were warning him whatever weird command he did was going to nuke his desktop environment.

On Gnome with the dash to panel extension, arc menu (mint layout), desktop icons, and tray icons aka kstatus notifier icons is an incredibly compatible and in many cases better Cinnamon like experience and you have Wayland that works.

I screen share on Slack with Wayland at work every day

Dark Souls is a 14 year old game

The snaps while 100% legitimate packages just like the Flatpak ones are not official according to their own descriptions:

NOTE: This is a wrapper of the official package, but it is not verified, affiliated with, or supported by Proton AG.

Repubs like or dislike whatever Fox News tells them to - regardless if two things they supposed to like and dislike contradict each other.

You can buy second hand phones and then Google doesn't get any more money. Easy solution.