Make a separate home partition, and make fs BTRFS, having subvolune of root system may be tricky for formatting

In the BIOS is secure boot enabled? If it is it is easier to install Linux with secure boot disabled. If it isn’t that, then could be a hardware bug Linux lite can’t deal with. Had that with Ubuntu on one laptop, while RPM distros worked fine

Ubuntu made Linux easily accessible to anyone, so you are probably right.

For the enterprise stuff we work with only REL and SUSE are certified to install on, and work with the software. OpenSUSE works too because of the shared binaries with SUSE

Same, I’m on OpenSUSE, nVidia hosts its own OpenSUSE repo. As far back as 8 years(for me) you add the repo and add the driver. Everything works.

We see SUSE and REL at corps and enterprises, not so much Ubuntu. None offer something like GRID though. Central management tool for Admins to deploy all systems equally from central location, with dashboard view, without having to run scripts or autoYAST to keep systems the same

It is marketed as direct windows replacement, so it appears they choose absolute safety, over possible breakage. If that GRID product they tout ever launches it will be great for companies.

Wireguard might be what you want. You connect to your remote machine ( assume it is at home). You can setup what traffic goes over wireguard (some or all). On your home machine you can run port forward command and masquerading command once connected on home machine so that you have full lan access too. It is described in the wireguard setup docs.

She doesn’t install apps, Her config is what she needs. But nixOS install is pretty simple if you can copy paste text.

You go here https://search.nixos.org/packages

Search for a package, and click if you want permanent or ephemeral app and paste the code into the shell or into your config file.

Run a rebuild

Pretty easy

My wife is on NixOS, because she wanted a system that would be exactly the same if it died. She doesn’t know Linux from Mac or Windows; She doesn’t care about privacy or where apps come from, only that it operates the exact same everyday. (And Windows could not satisfy this requirement)

NVidia has worked great for me, even RTX shading looked good.

Yeah, TinyCore Linux needs 16GB I think. 8GB you might run BusyBox or something

Amazon sells 24 GB ones…

There might be a paid way. At work we have our phone numbers tied into zoom which ties into calling other phone numbers. It is used as a backend switchboard. So you could have a zoom number as your signal number which routes to your landline. Maybe.

Wayland is now default, you have to add a few x11 packages to have an x11 login now. Also SE Linux Enforcing by default.

If you arena opposed to GNOME, you add your online accounts and it integrates them into evolution mail, calendar and contacts. And also Gdrive becomes a mounted folder if you add Google account.

Deja DUP has auto validation also. But besides “backup” I think everyone suggests using ZFS that auto heals bit rot. And don’t trust unplugged SSDs, they can suffer bit rot quickly if stored in a hot location

Opensuse has full disk encryption. https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/20/setup-fde-on-opensuse/

https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/20/setup-fde-on-opensuse/

Edit NVM, read up on it. Seems like you have to run PCP protocal on IP4 to bypass thr CGNAT issues.

You can use any open port and port forward at the router, or is CG NAT only 80

Just setup wireguard on your server, add masquerading and ip forwarding. That single wireguard in, will give you full access to your lan