I didn't know about those. I'll give fbpdf a try. As for YouTube, I tried to get videos working with mpv but it's not happy for some reason. Works fine on my glibc void Linux laptop, just not on this one.
w3m browser and I don't really view pdfs in this setup. Most files are text files so I just use vim or bat. If I really needed to view pdf files I'd probably just use groff.
I think I'm able to say now that I'm a seasoned Linux user, possibly even an advanced user. But, I'm still considering replacing windows 11 on my gaming PC with bazzite. Just because it's easy mode, doesn't make it inferior in any way. I'm not suggesting that's what your inferring, just felt like chiming in
Didn't need to hack the case up, could have simply removed it all together