You can use any distribution but will most likely have to load the Broadcom wireless modules manually.

If you’re able to use a wired network connection then this is no problem and might not even be something you’re worried about.

When you do decide to get wireless running, make sure to figure out a way that’s copacetic with your chosen distributions package management so everything “just works” on a system update. If you don’t take the time to integrate third party modules into package management then system updates can unpredictably break the functionality those modules provide. You may not remember what you did, how to reproduce its effects or even that you did it in the first place, leading to some pretty unenjoyable situations.

Consider keeping macos on there and dual booting: you will need it for any firmware updates, it’s a good fall back when something breaks and when you want to sell or give away the machine you’ll use macos to get it back to good to other people. Many Intel macs can have their macos installation loaded onto a usb device and depending on how you do the bootloader and efi situation still easily start it up.

No reason to be skeptical, teams and groups are very trustworthy so teamgroup is a lock.

Reseat the stick you installed and run memtest 86.

It’s more likely that you have a badly installed stick or a faulty stick than consumer memory controllers in the last 20 years care about the installed memory being the same.

In the version before sequoia you can choose to uncheck “draw window contents while dragging”, that will make it only draw an outline until you release the drag. In my experience that setting stops a lot of slowdown and hanging when moving between monitors.

I can’t say for sure, because idk which 2017 you have or what monitor you have, but it may also be related to the monitor not supporting the same dpi or colorspace as the built in does. In those circumstances a hang when moving windows between screens comes from the video card swapping resources in and out furiously to show everything.

I don’t know what you mean when you say “switch screens.” Like in Mission Control or switching workspaces?

The last two that you’re talking about can be alleviated by hotkeys. Option command d toggles the dock, option q quits and option command esc force quits. Make sure you have the correct program up front before you do this.

If you absolutely cannot live without clicking the red button and knowing the program closed, there’s a bunch of little programs out there that change the behavior to what you want. I don’t recommend this though, because you’ll feel lost when working with a computer that isn’t your specific customized device.

What’s kinda funny switching between windows, macs and different Linux systems is that the windows and Linux gui elements act mostly the same but the hotkeys are all different and the mac and windows hotkeys are mostly the same but the gui elements act real different.

My apologies for not having definitive links and answers like above, I’m not in front of a million computers at the moment and you can’t trust what you just read online.

What kinds of window management changes would you like to make? Iirc you can make some decently radical adjustments using brew but I’m not extremely knowledgeable about them because I like to keep it normal.

I don’t have an accord, I can’t save at bonfires.

No, they can’t be adjusted.

I know you said you don’t need a tutorial right after that, but the context of you saying that was another user explaining that it can be changed but they didn’t have time to provide you tech support.

I happened to be in a position where I could quickly get the information they weren’t able to, so I did.

If you wanna know anything else just lmk.

Why is my chainsaw better than my accord?

It’s not a good question.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/choose-an-app-to-open-a-file-on-mac-mh35597/mac

Number 1 search result, contains instructions for multiple versions, I checked that it’s accurate with the last four major releases.