(rightfully) does not like mixed language codebases for projects as large and important as Linux
You make it sound like it’s a matter of taste rather than a technical one (and I suspect it actually might be just about taste in the end)
I stopped at “secret” (yes, the occurrence in the title) :)
TBH the checksums are pretty useless for humans who download an .iso and install it… they are mainly for mirrors and similar that download files without using them
Yank is Copy, you heathen!
Only in inferior software it is Paste.
(for the uninitiated: it’s Copy in vim and Paste in emacs; also if it wasn’t clear, I’m just joking)
By and large, distros package the same software so which one you pick is a matter of taste. As a beginner, you won’t have the knowledge to take advantage of documentation/instructions that are not written for your specific distro, so pick one of the more popular ones.
No, distro owners won’t be a problem in the same way that Microsoft or Apple are. Don’t worry about that: the moment they do something unsavory (even remotely) their projects will be forked, and switching to a different distro is not that big of a deal anyway.
If you like to tinker you will break your system, not because linux is fragile (it is not) but because knowledge of low-level stuff is widespread and the temptation to thinker with it is too great. I recommend you look into system snapshots and how they integrate with boot options (eg. opensuse tumbleweed automatically snapshosts your system when you update it and during boot you can choose to boot into a previous state - surely other distros do the same and, if yours doesn’t, you can set it up yourself).
The short answer is “use KDE” :)
KDE is great and seems to suit you. The DE you choose matters (IMHO) more that the distro, because once you are familiar with a DE and its shortcuts it’s a pain to switch, and also because once you are used to some feature it’s enormously frustrating to switch to a DE that doesn’t have it :)
From what I hear (I switched to AMD years ago), it’s not hard to make the Nvidia cards work properly, but it’s a recurring hassle and there are lots of things that are more fun to thinker with. Unless specific reasons you need an Nvidia card, I’d suggest selling it off and replacing it with a second-hand AMD/Intel one.
I’m sorry if this sounds rude, especially after not reading what must have taken you a long time to write…
Have you tried writing “distro that looks like macos” into a search engine?
Configure it like the current router and keep it as a backup?
You can run a lot of stuff on it, but those boxes aren’t really that powerful… a cheap, old raspberry pi from ebay (or anything really) will serve you better.
sudo zypper packages --unneded will give you a list of packages that have not been explicitly requested and are not dependencies of explicitly requested packages. As for how to remove them… IDK (I do it manually, once in a blue moon: it’s not like there’s new unneded packages every week).
It’s been a while since I’ve used debian, but IIRC apt autoremove will leave behind config files (unless you specify --purge).
In tumbleweed (and I think all rpm-based distros?) config files are removed per default together with packages (well, the config files installed with the package, not others that may have been created later such as the ones in your \~ - basically zypper rm is the same as apt purge).
Assuming you are using networkmanager, the first thing would be to check the DNS settings on your home wifi connection (assuming you are using Gnome, it should be inside “Settings” and then “Network” - sorry if that’s wrong, I don’t use Gnome).
If you can’t locate the setting to change, you can try deleting the whole connection and connecting again (as you would to a new wifi network).
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Agreed: now that I’m looking at the whole thing, this looks like a story where the FOSS community left much to be desired.
“mesh” is a buzzword that doesn’t make much sense (to me at least) if we are talking about wired and routers… what do you mean by it? can you describe your setup?
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Let me clarify :)
Unless I’m mistaken, mesh means that one a bunch of devices, usually wireless access points, connected with each other (in a mesh) with possibly low-quality connections that automatically switch traffic for each other.
If you have ethernet running from the router to the APs, you always want to use that and so you don’t want a mesh at all.
The best option would be to have a “regular” client that keeps a local copy in sync with the cloud instead of a mount.
BTW: IDK what cloud storage you are using, but IIRC some show files that are not available locally (ie. only the most recent files are downloaded locally - the older stuff is downloaded on request).
Alternatively, you could hack something together running unison locally in the guest to sync the cloud folder to a shared one… you’ll have two copies of the data though.
This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.
It nails a different problem on the head.
You don’t have to convince the US government to allow you access to classified information, you just have to convince a lawyer that their (possibly non-US) client won’t be liable in case you are lying.
First of all, saying “based on their country of residence” is either grossly uninformed or (most probably) plain dishonest.
Ignoring that, the GPL-freedoms of companies subject to sanctions are still preserved, so… having established that your “free” is not the same “free” as in “free and open source software”, what the hell are you talking about?
Finland was invaded by Russia before WWII, then participated in a campaign against Russia with the Axis powers and finally signed the Moscow Treaty with Russia and the UK and joined them against Germany… I fear history is more complex than what may serve your simplistic view (I’d go to far as to say that, most probably, reality is too).
Also, if I may, that happened some 80 years ago… do you think current Finns should be ashamed of that when they were not even alive back then? Can you name a nation that didn’t do anything shameful in the last century?
One way or another, if you want to run an application you are gonna need its dependencies (the key is the name)… they may be bundled into an appimage or come as part of flatpak ruintime, or be confined inside a container, or live in the nix store, but they will “bloat” your system anyway.
Learn how to cleanup your system (ie. uninstall all packages that are not needed by others that have been requested explicitly) and live a happy life. Only bother with other solutions if the software (or version) you need isn’t available for your distro.
The main difference is probably that I have a desktop PC rather than a laptop (plus, a few old hard disks lying around).
I think I’ll keep the local replica even when I’m finished reorganizing the library: the local copy doubles as a backup and I must say I am enjoying the faster access times.
And… what started out as honest advice, ended up being a preventive strike against Internet villains. Very Internet-villain-like, I must say :D