Everything has worked perfectly. Just a little sleep deprived. I have local and Tor access to my Start9 node and file server, and even worked out and tested a total system imaging and restoration scheme with Clonezilla.

After I had everything working, I intentionally wiped and restored the whole system from an encrypted image file stored on an external USB. It took 5 minutes to rebuild the whole system. And everything operated the same on reboot.

Today all I have to do is install Sparrow and import a bunch of watch-only credentials and test working with air gapped PSBT’s and signing transactions via USB if it’s ever needed (not my preference). Then image the whole system and make a secondary copy of the image.

I’m really digging Linux. It feels like I am free from a lot of privacy concerns and not helping someone work up an advertising profile on me every time I go online.