If it is the OS, you could try “systemd-analyze” and “systemd-analyze blame” on the terminal to see what is going on, you can post the output of blame here and maybe someone can pinpoint something strange, or you can search online how to speed up or disable certain elements from the list.

MSI Sword 15 here, with Intel + Nvidia, In my personal experience is runs almost without issues using Manjaro as a Distro (have not tried other distros on this specific machine).

Your experience could be different depending on your specific laptop model and how recent it is.

Keyboard lighting and fan on/off works without issues, the only ‘Fn’ key that does not work apart from the one for MSI windows software is the one to block the trackpad (and I just configured another keyboard shortcut for it).

Using Wayland, I can not use an external monitor connected to the HDMI port on the Nvidia card (No idea if it is fixable now, haven’t looked on it recently), but with Xorg I can run an external monitor in the HDMI port and extra ones with a dongle on the USB-C (so far tried with 3 without issues) Edit: I can use multiple monitors without issues on Wayland as of my last test.

Friendly distros recommended these days as far as I know are Mint and Zorin if looking for something Ubuntu or Debian Based, Apart from that there is Fedora or Arch based distros but may need a bit more knowledge and getting used to.

As far as I know, CasaOS (same as Cockpit) is installed on top of a default OS install, so you could always access the OS directly to install/configure things outside of it, if the need arises.

I would not say you would be held back by it, if it does what you need. And for what I can see online, you can install any docker container even if it’s not on the default catalog of CasaOS, or access the OS.

If you want to grow your knowledge of how things work, or how to deploy services without CasaOS, you can always do so in parallel of using CasaOS, so I don’t see where the issue could be.

Dislike: there is still no way to group communities into sub feeds, apart from subs, local, all. (and the work around some do of having multiple accounts seems silly to me)

It seems to be a 3-day thing from the information on the modlog, but I would first try to talk to the moderators before trying to post on the same community again, maybe clarifying that you are the original author, and you plan to maintain/update them, or that maybe the title should not include [old guide] or something like that, and that the purpose of these post is to share information, get feedback and generate discussion on these games, as you do play them.

but then that would overlap once the individual games have their own communities

You can always cross-post or tell people where to find the guides later.

If you search the modlog of lemmy.world with your name, you can see what the mod of /c/games said, what I can see is that it was taken as spam of old guides and/or not original content on that community, and they allow only a certain type of posts on that specific community.

There is no general modmail, so any mod can respond on Lemmy (at least yet), but you could DM the mods of the community individually to talk to them and see what is acceptable or not.

Remember that as it was the case on Reddit, there is the site rules and the community rules, sometimes some communities don’t allow certain things, or maybe they can think content can be spam or not original content.

Here you have multiple /c/games (or different names) communities on different instances, so if one doesn’t allow some types of post, another existing one can, or a new one can be created, or even you can create another /c/games.

It is true that here there are a lot of specific game communities that don’t exist yet but there is always the chance someone or yourself can create a community to fill what is missing (for example a /c/gameguides could be a new community for that type of content and be a hub for guides, specially for those games that doesn’t have a community yet).

Another thing, remember that the fact that you migrated from Reddit doesn’t mean that people will follow if you link to Lemmy even if you clarify that there is an updated version here, and content could be deleted from either Reddit or Lemmy side at any time, so even if it is as an alternative/backup I would consider having those guides on a third place (like docs that you mentioned, and link them somewhere on your posts).