Yeah, it is not impossible, but you are actively going against the maintainers choice of software and configuration, that they can assume you have during every update. That is what makes Arch so popular: no handholding that would get in your way; but also no helping hand from upstream, only documentation how to do it. Cinnamon is maintained by the Mint team and considered difficult to install anywhere else. IMHO when you are used to KDE, it can feel lacking.

Mint has no KDE install which makes it a hazzle to setup and fragile to upgrade. You also wouldn’t gain anything, because they are both ubuntu based systems. Not worth it imo, like a sidegrade.

You can transplant your desktop onto anything, the configuration is stored in .config and .local in your home folder. Bring those to another distribution with the same software (copy while you are not logged in, ie while in live cd or reuse the home partition without formatting) and it will look the same.

Because windows is really bad for work, I would want my kde multidesktop multiscreen setup while I earn money spending time in visual studio.

Adapt and fight. Linux is the dominant OS for everything, so Windows started to support it (wsl) so they don’t loose developers. Secure boot worked as a moat for a while and the MS monopoly on OS keys is still an obstacle. Linux works better on ARM than Windows, so obviously Qualcom Laptops have a locked down bootloader. They will continue to lock themselfes into the future with money and development resources.

With worn textiles, there will be wear and tear. Textiles exposed to the outside can get dirty from rain, bird poo, mud, vomit… I would want to know, how cleanable is it? Is it allergic to any cleaning agents? Can the waterproofing be reapplied when it fades? For highest review rating: Does the manufacturer offer a repair service with access to original fabric even when your chosen color is out of style to recover holes and cuts?

It’s not unlimited on PC’s. Most mainstream mainboards don’t get firmware updates after 2 years. Weakest link in the security chain sets the time.

• Metal blob solid
• Warzone 2100
• Widelands

I’m so happy to see this, finally some good news from the us.

Only public facing ports, maybe your openvpn login. But that means you are already firewalled up and your attack surface is tiny, good 👍

I recommend fail2ban to stop the automated attacks that are the background noise of the internet. It will set your firewall to block certain ip’s for a while, especially ports 21/22 are getting hammered with dictionary login attempts. And port 80 and 8080 for example get constantly version checked to see if you are vulnerable with an old apache, old dokuwiki etc, so don’t expose more than you need to and maybe learn about ssh tunnels and close a few.

I once installed ossim in a small network with a server and it showed me it is war out there, scripts flying everywhere.

The cold war is over, they are called developing countries now. Your point still stands, the US has lots of developing to do, especially on the social/society front.

Only individuals it seems, businesses are still all in.

Marginal support happens a lot on Linux. See AMD drivers without Adrenaline. “You may use Linux if you must… at your own risk… we do the bare minimum to keep you runnig… our past stuff is in the open but we can pull the rug on future releases any time.” You can install gog games and maybe some dude made galaxy work in wine, corporate has decided that is good enough.

Imho, if they decide to put effort into Linux, I’d rather see them put dev resources into heroic to add these features than to make just another client. They are late to the market, that would make the most of it.

I like badblocks in destructive mode. It can also do multiple rounds of overwriting. It is also a good tool to burn in a new hdd or test a used one. just check smartctl bad sector count, run it, check again if it increased.

Warzone 2100 is also pretty good. c&c vibes. I also enjoyed Widelands. It’s like a Settlers 2 remake.

Lmao this is Linux! A new distribution is only a new source to fork from, distributions only die after the last maintainer has left. Besides, Fedora atomic is build in a ci/cd pipeline from Fedora with high automation, chances Bazzite gets forks and custom editions are basically baked in and sold as advantages of this approach.

I recommend using windows tools to shrink windows partitions if you only have one drive and read about manual partitioning for your Linux install - though the “use free space” option should work fine after windows shrunk itself.

Lmao, roll-playing at its best!