It’s just dd with extra flags enabled for data recovery.

Your link doesn’t work, but just from the looks of it, you have a volume that is already attached to a VM, and you’re trying to use it elsewhere?

Plasma Bigscreen is kind of a mess still, so maybe run it on something first to understand what you’re getting into. That being said, any distro that runs KDE can run KBS, but will probably not be tuned for the least amount of resources to be used.

Something like OpenELEC/LibreELEC or OSMC are very well tuned for this, and require very little in the way of resources though. I’m not saying DON’T use KBS, but if you’re lacking in resources, the others are probably a better choice.

WHOA. Bombastic claim there, brah.

He’s a Eugenics aficionado, and racist-ADJACENT

Corporate sponsorship in the FOSS community has always existed. It’s how many of your favorite projects have managed to stay alive and thrive, including kernel develop.

Your suspicion and fear is lacking sustenance.

If it’s heat or hardware it may not show up until CPU, Mem, or GPU are under heavy utilization. That’s why I said monitor your temps and test your memory.

Are you saying games work fine without invoking the third-party tools?

This sounds more like a general hardware or hearing issue. Monitor your temps, and run a memory test at a minimum. Make sure you don’t have a bunch of stuff stacked on your machine or vents clogged.

What’s your point? Nix is meant for CI, but even still the defaults are set for multi-user operations.

Do you want explain a bit more?

Linux is Linux. If you’re using the standard install packages like Pam, then it’s built specifically for multiple users.

Elaborate more if you could.

Just post a picture of your beard and official Autism Certificate FFS.

Jesus fuck.

MAC is for your local network.

Hostname is not relevant because the endpoints you’re connecting to are not doing reverse lookups.

Your Public IP from your ISP is all they see. They’ve also blocked VPN endpoint IP address space.

They aren’t tracking you through software on your machine, just the global address space. Best you can do is see if your ISP has IP6 space you can be attached to, because they don’t have a good way to block that yet.

Just plain old Fedora is probably what you want. Run it on two Framework laptops with Zero issues.

Debian will work fine. Force a terminal down if needed, but skip the GDM.

Be more specific about what you need. Modern kernel, desktop, data rescue tools…etc?

Ah, then you probably want KDE’s kiosk mode for a second screen with a second user that you can set the defined activity for. Should be quick and easy that way versus trying to split a session and window input.

It’s sort of possible, but you’d need to build an accessibility extension for KDE to do so.

Can you be more specific about what you’re trying to do?

Okay, but what’s the output of uname -a, and does it match your lib modules directory version?

This is…confusing. Are you saying you’re in a LiveUSB environment while running this, or you’re inside a currently installed environment where this has previously worked?

Confirm the current live kernel when running this command matches the lib modules you’re pointing out here. This sounds like a mismatch issue.

It depends on what you plan on using it for.

Just simple tablet stuff like browsing and watching videos? Probably fine.

Using it like a laptop as they claim it can be used? No way with those specs.

If you’re not super familiar with Linux on touch devices, it’s still a bit wonky, no matter which DE you choose, though I would say GNOME is currently in the lead over the larger bunch with some of the strides they made this past year. Still FAR from perfect though.

Assuming you have an existing VPN to her network, then any RDP client will work.

Remmina is the best remote client out there right now. Will work fine. Should be available everywhere.