I stopped a while ago, I hate that I did, but I can’t stop a widespread pandemic on my own and it feels pointless now after all these years of nobody else giving a shit, being the only person in a crowd who ever masks for years feels so demoralizing and I just couldn’t keep doing it
What’s even the point if my family doesn’t mask anyway? Even from the very start, they would always do as much as possible to avoid wearing them, and two months ago I caught COVID from them and I think it’s left me with Long COVID, even masking in public wouldn’t have done anything about it
Like it’s not like I’m going out in public while actively having COVID, but masking at all times just isn’t working for me anymore
No personal choice on my part could ever come close to making up for the systemic collapse of disease control that was deliberately engineered by the most powerful people in the world
I think EndeavourOS (or anything based on Arch Linux) isn’t a great distro to start with for a beginner, experienced users like to pretend that it’s totally easy but it’s really not, it generally relies more on the terminal and manual configuration than other easier distros
I agree with that other comment in this thread saying that a different distro would be a lot easier to learn, and I also agree with them about Fedora Kinoite being easy to understand as a new user (the distro I use is a variant of it), though I also understand that a lot of people here aren’t fond of Fedora due to their connection to Red Hat, and Fedora’s Atomic variants like that have some quirks that make them different from most other distros
I also agree that XFCE isn’t a great choice of desktop environment, a big part of it being “lightweight” is because it lacks a lot of useful features that other DEs have, and if your PC can handle current Windows then you most likely will be fine with “heavier” DEs like KDE Plasma or GNOME, they still generally run better than Windows these days
I’d recommend trying KDE Plasma (Fedora Kinoite comes with it, but you can get it on most other distros too), it’s very flexible but still pretty easy to use, its UI scaling works better than in any other DE I’ve seen, and it also has color blindness filters if that’s what you mean by color filter (and if you mean blue light filter, it has that too)