I think you should try out different file managers like GNOME files or Dolphin from KDE. One might solve your issue with iPhone

On bazzite

• Can’t change my Plymouth boot screen

• Can’t set animated icons in toolbar (KDE)

• The screen transition I chose is glitchy

• The translation tries VERY hard to be different from windows (idk what’s up with that as on other system it was normal(propably, I would need to make sure))

• I don’t know how to run containers from within containers, but that’s a skill issue. (I wanted to build piefed from distrobox)

For the longest time I had to disable manually a module so my graphics tablet would work. It was fixed a month ago!

literally takes medicine for a psychotic disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis
I would STRONGLY advise to not use LLMs and chatbots then. There are early studies that link chat bot use to making some mental disorders worse. There is no link yet to actually induce one in a healthy individual, but you are not one, and I would mark it as potential risk for you.

supplemental tools for my lack of higher education

Chatbots might seem smart, inteligent and educated, as they are using fancy and complicated words, but it’s a lie. They don’t know what they are talking about, they will be sycophantic to you and agree with every falsehood that it might came across.

You can pursue higher education without paying a dime. You won’t get fancy paper, but you can build an expertise yourself. There are plenty of textbooks out there. openstax.org is great resource to get high quality textbooks. I have watched lectures on youtube to get an education that wasn’t available for me at the time. No one will be able to take that knowledge from you.

yeah, I tested most of the software, and still use Mastodon and Wafrn. I use mastodon to follow a hashtag, but it didn’t deliver what it promised. Few major tech youtubers bounced back from it due extreme toxicity.

Wafrn is super wacky software. You can play doom and bite people. It has rage-bait driven development* and connects to bluesky and fediverse at the same time without a bridge.

Bookwyrm and Piefed didn’t deliver what I would want from their respective domains.

*allegedly

Don’t listen to fearmongers and keep on doing what you doing.

It’s new funny number. Why it’s funny? No one knows or it’s funny because the kids decided that it is.

editing videos

What program will you use?

I have heard that DaVinci resolve is very hard to set up. as for Kdenlive, I have used it few times, and it felt very clunky.

I would go with mint if you have older hardware and bazzite if you have new hardware (especially nvidia graphics card). If you really want windows-like layout check zorin OS.

for actuall advice: I would try a bunch of them and stick with one where video editing works.