You can't have it both ways, be close to the hardware, and have convenience. Pick one.
It seems you have discovered nmcli, that's a good option if you don't like GUIs. You could also check netctl, but don't know if it works outside of Arch.
Some #GNU #linux programs are really trash, inconsistent UX, most notably example GNUpg with his fururistic chatbot-like experience that try to "understand what command you mean" failing everytime.
Another peak bad linux UX is the damned wireless wpa connection that require to use 5 different utilities inconsistent with each other just to connect to the damned wifi jesus and imagine to change resolv.conf file and set it to read-only just to make the dns-proxy stick and avoid network-manager rewritr the file every 2 minutes.
How many utilities are needed on openbsd? Just one, ifconfig. How pages is long a fucking config that set an automatic connection at startup with correct wpa resolution? 2 consistent and simple lines of config.
Hey nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshspg7dju I think I'm near to join your "hate linux club", I'm still on a gentoo machine compiling gcc because I fall for the "linux is the common standard" narrative and I have solarpanel so can compile free basically.
Why do you have to do the network stuff manually? I haven't had to do this in many years!
Nah, the scrollback buffer is pretty bad. It's pretty much the same as Screen, no improvement. I generally select and middle click paste rather than copy and paste.
You could give wezterm a try, it has a mux server. I haven't used it for multiplexing though, mostly because the servers I log into are a bit sensitive.
Locally I ditched tmux for kitty for most things. Don't get multiplexing, but otherwise a fantastic terminal. I still have one tmux session running for notes and admin stuff.
Not exactly an LLM, but a product built around local, mobile LLMs. You can also add your own.
Strange, no ext4. I see another reply suggests XFS and Btrfs. I disagree with XFS, it is mostly meant for storing large files, whereas during common use with user files, and config, you get a lot of small files.
You could use Btrfs, while normally it is pretty stable, and has some advanced features like snapshots, when it does break, the recovery tools are really unfriendly for normal users. Since external drives are not usually very high reliability, I would be slightly hesitant. IMO, ext4 is the tried and tested, reliable choice.
I've never heard of `adduser` 🤷
Since you are already familiar with Alma, I would choose an RPM based distro like Fedora.
Haven't you seen the news, a hardware profiling backdoor was discovered that is exclusively available to Google websites.
Who knows how many other such backdoors are lurking in the code base 🤷. Building privacy sensitive applications on top of Chromium is impossible.
> I would do many things again, but there is a lot I would do different, if I go back!
Of course, I only meant about the coming back to Linux part. Good luck with your future plans :-)
I think there some Bitcoin options within the 401k setup. I would say explore that avenue first.
Firstly, congrats on finding your back to Linux even after having to relearn everything from scratch! People often rhetorically ask, "given another opportunity, would I do it again?" Now you can say, yes! :-)
About your installation issue, all Fedora media has a check media option in the boot menu. Next time, use that to be certain and avoid wasting any time :-)
About installing multiple desktops, "heavy" really doesn't matter as long as you have disk space. I hope you upgraded the internal drive to a nice 1TB SSD, they are pretty cheap these days.
That said, since nowadays a desktop also provides certain services, sometimes having multiple desktops can clash on these services. I've found this to be the case if you install 2 "big" desktops, like Gnome & KDE, as opposed to, one "big" and other lightweight desktops. Often the desktops have a way around by enabling compatibility options. This is because often users might prefer one desktop, but want to use a major application from the other ecosystem. You have to find out about these compatibility options.
Unfortunately I can't help, I use XFCE, of course on Fedora!
PS: do checkout the flatpak options as well, specially if you have to use something proprietary. They are much better supported on non-Ubuntu systems.
What do you mean by cloud backup? Do you mean a directory on your system that's backed up or synced regularly? Or just an address online that you can use in your backup setup?
If it's the latter, and you are handy with rsync, have a look at rsync.net . Can't get better value. I think it also supports Borg backups, in that case you would even have a gui app to manage everything.
Accountability and responsibility, for the good and the bad. And non-intereference in other people's business.
I also think it has something to do with the lack of a character limit. Less room for misunderstanding in a more divided world. The character limit served it's purpose in the early days.
Owning your identity might be the real decentralising factor. This is similar to how gold could be confiscated but much more difficult to do that with Bitcoin.
XMPP was also killed by big tech. But your other point about zaps seems sound, but I've the feeling it isn't enough.
Sadly the NixOS project is being taken over by some identity politics BS. Not sure what's ahead for them.