The only major issue I ever had with mint running relatively old packages was when I got my current laptop. Nvidia 4060 required a really new nvidia driver, which in turn required a really new kernel. I sorted it out by adding a few unofficial repos, and it worked like a charm afterwards.

Whenever old versions are giving you grief, they can usually be sorted out in a similar manner.

Serve after breaking your dependencies to taste

Pretty easy. It’s not so much using intuition as it is reading step-by-step instructions. If you can use a cook book, you can install arch.

Source: I use once installed arch, btw

There might be more modern ways of doing this, but I run “Wifi FTP server” on my phone, with my download directory as its root. Then I use filezilla or whatever to transfer what I need. Trouble free and platform agnostic.

I’m a lifetime fellow of the impostor club. At times I believe it’s the dunning-kreuger club, and I just keep failing upwards.

Sure, the downtime I accidentally caused was only 30 minutes. BUT IT WAS FUCKING DOWNTIME. Zero is the only acceptable duration.

Same. I used mIRC back in the 90’s, but ever since I started dabbling with servers I preferred to have an irssi client running inside a screen session somewhere. Allowed me to catch up on things that happened while I was AFK, as well as provide some continuity while I was on the move and/or on a dodgy connection.

Again: Hallelujah, another soul saved!

So now it’s basically down to this: Keep using it for whatever you would normally do in windows. And if you’re having issues, try to sort it out.

And then one day you’ll suddenly realize how long it’s been without Windows, and that you don’t really see a reason for going back any time soon.

Then Mint is for you. No nagging, no AI search. It just… works.

The only thing I have to do after first install is to get nvidia drivers running, which isn’t as awful as some linux enthusiasts might have you believe.

Hallelujah, another soul saved!

Personally I’d recommend Mint. It’s intuitive and things tend to work out of the box. There are many others that’ll do just as fine, but the large Mint userbase makes it easy to google any problems you might stumble into.

I’ve been primarily a linux user for almost two decades now, and I still run mint, simply because I sometimes just want something simple that does its job without much hazzle.

And on top of that, to even get linux installed, there was lilo…

I installed Scientific Linux on a brand new intel macbook some 7-8 years ago. Worked pretty well once I realized that MBR boot was not an option. I would think other modern distros would work just as well.

Former FreeBSD user here. I always kept /usr separate, including /usr/home

Short answer: yes

Longer answer: Kali is not intended to be a normal desktop OS. It will work, but ut might be a bit limiting.

If you want a desktop linux with a lot of the security stuff with it, you might want to check out ParrotSec. I used that on my work laptop for a few years.

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Probably a bit narrow, but my usecases:

• awk: modify STDIN before it goes to STDOUT. Example: only print the 3rd word for each line
• sed: run a regex on every line.

What’s the difference between /bin and /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin from an architectural point of view? And how does sbin relate to this?

Fuckyeah. I need it, so I had to jump through a couple of hoops to get it running on LM21, but good to know that it’s default next time I need to install.

Decades? Try centuries.

Good question. I honestly haven’t got a clue.

Not THAT unusual, but… I have a Dell R520 server that was leftover/retired from work. I mostly use it for storage due to the amount of disk trays it has. I have all of these disks in a ZFS pool, leaving no actual drives for the OS. However, this was an old VM server, so it has an internal USB 2 port and a ridiculous amount of RAM, so the OS is booted from USB, and I don’t use swap.

Boot performance is abysmal (on the rare occasion where I actually need to reboot), but once booted I notice no real downside to having the OS itself on really slow storage. Sure, it’s somewhat slow to do os-related stuff such as apt-get, but it’s not like I’m in a hurry when doing it. Plus other than updating stuff, the OS storage doesn’t see a whole lot of changes/writes.

Now I just need to figure out how to economically attach these 40 additional SAS drives I have. It doesn’t have to look good (i.e. fit in the same chassis. Or any chassis at all, for that matter), it just have to work. These additional drives are only 4TB each, but they were free.