TL;DR:

If your Steam Client is flickering rapidly on your fresh Linux install:

• Go to Steam->Settings->Interface->Client Beta Participation -> Steam Beta Update.

If your Steam Client seems to refuse to launch any of your previously installed games (that you probably had installed on separate harddrives when you were running Windows:

• Steam for Linux does not like NTFS for some reason. Games that I moved to my main drive work perfectly. So I’ll probably just get an extra SSD for my SATA USB adapter, reformat it to something more appropriate, and just play from that.

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So after the recent announcement of “Microsoft Recall” for Windows where it captures screencaps of the user’s activity every 3 seconds and feeds that into their machine learning algorithm (which includes looking at adult content, entering payment information for online purchases, online healthcare services, private video calls, or any kind of remote-work you may be doing which could involve PII) I finally went ahead and dropped Windows 10 for KDE Neon.

There’s been some frustrations here and there, but it is working for the most part. Main problem bugging me right now is that the emote picker pops up a separate application and when I choose an emote it gets copied to clipboard instead of added to the textbox I had selected.

I was also having some issues with Steam for a while, but now I’ve got that working (as mentioned in the TLDR section. To repeat myself:

Got it fixed!
For the client flickering: Go to Steam->Settings->Interface->Client Beta Participation -> Steam Beta Update.
For most of my games not launching from my other drives: Steam for Linux does not like NTFS for some reason. Games that I moved to my main drive work perfectly. So I’ll probably just get an extra SSD for my SATA USB adapter, reformat it to something more appropriate, and just play from that.