Sometimes , probably always, MBA types want to show more profit and so make cuts to staff because labour is always the biggest expense…even if those employees could increase productivity in the long run.

Session is what you want. But you have to directly shares each others public keys to connect

Yeah plastic fuel pellets in a proper incinerator is way different than open burning

I forget which distro now, but I installed one that on first boot cones to a welcome screen for adding a user. Install just got the OS ready to deploy. It was a bigger distro, but I forget

No. Unless nothing else in life makes you happy except spending money on ridiculously priced hardware, then go for it

Microsoft’s installed ssh has a phone home behaviour, it logs the server IP you connected to back to the MS mothership during your login.

It says Myrlyn to replace YaST GUI

Looks a lot like YaST

https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/10/myrlyn-now-handles-community-repos/

But yeah, I liked all the easy config stuff in the Yast Modules

Pretty much the requirement for my wife. She really struggled with inconsistency of Windows and how slow it responded. Move to Linux, and she runs it fine with no more complaints, she just wants it identical after a version upgrade or if there is a reinstall ever needed. So for her I went with NixOS and have her config files stored for later.

Yeah not sure how it works on Mint, on OpenSUSE after reboot it asks if you want to enroll the new keys into it. If you miss the timer you will boot and driver will bork

If you browse the webs so many people with “Help my drive is full of snapshots, what do I do?”. If there is a failure mode people will find it. Whereas a curated distro is OOTB ready to go without user intervention.

You can assign auto snapshots or create on demand, but whether or not you have a maintenance tool that does scrub, cleaning whatever is another story. I guess my point was something that has Btrfs as default install will also have some curation around the tools that optimize that system

Fedora, like OpenSUSE that has btrfs by default, should be running scheduled scripts to do scrub, maintenance and dump old snapshots (either by number of snapshots or by age) on its own. Others having issue with btrfs are probably manually setting it up and not knowing the options or don’t have scripts that run on the back end. Having said that I do notice the partitions suggested for root are highly conservative, I usually add 30% on top of suggested root size and haven’t had issues in 7+ years

Fair, I mean I have done that too, and would not recommend LOL

If you happen to choose OpenSUSE, the " install recommends " will detect nVidia and load some drivers to get it working, but you can also add a specific repo nVidia hosts for Leap and Tumbleweed and download the Drivers / Cuda etc. They work great, so ignore the previous commentor. Laptops with dual GPU need you to setup a switching app to save power, when you don’t need to power the nVidia. If your BIOS has a discrete graphics mode selection, you can choose hybrid, but if your OS has trouble you can set it to discrete only so nVidia is always used. I had to do this on one machine because the OS saw the two GPUs and was trying to treat them has two displays instead of one composite display choice

If you are on something like openSUSE, nVidia hosts a repo just for OpenSUSE Leap ams Tumbleweed, and that’s exactly where you get them from, and they work.

I just use tr command and specify the swap from " " to "-” so much simpler than complex apps

I still have my Logitech BT mouse from 2005. Still working great. Are their newer products bad?

Two separate EFI boot Partitions if you dual boot. Its not worth letting Windows know about linux. Linux chainloads to Windows boot.

It’s like teens and IPhones, they don’t care if they pickup a used 3 year old iPhone for more money than a new Android, they want the iPhone branding

You can group Gnome Apps in their launching tool. (Same as you group and name apps on Android, just drag one onto another) Its a different idea right. Hit super key and start typing or select the app. Maybe Plasma is more what you want where everything is customizable.