I can’t speak for you but I didn’t have to do any of that, my installs worked out of the box…

OpenSUSE Leap is the way to go my dude. It’s been formulated by pedantic Germans and you can’t go wrong with YAST/zypper for package management.

Is this a Linux version of windirstat?

That’s a pretty good point. If it’s “too hard” to join up on here that sure is a good filter to keep out the Facebook ding dongs.

Oh fair enough. Amd i guess you wouldn’t want to pump 30v or whatever and use a buck converter because now all we have are heat generators.

Another thought I’ve had that warrants a separate comment: Why in the hell arent we wiring DC circuits into houses? Almost everything converts ac to dc these days via a power supply. Why not cut that out and have a larger more efficient main dc rectifier at the panel and run that to USBC ports around the house?

Im going to speak from experience here that adding solar to my house was fairly easy and fairly cheap. The caveat being that i did it all myself. An understanding of basic electrical concepts and watching a few videos of how to mount the panels and bingo. What would have cost me probably 30k to have a contractor do i did myself for under 7k. Modern AIO inverters are a godsend along companies like SanTan solar who have fantastic deals on batts and panels. The biggest hindrance to us all are going to be the local nimbys and code nazis.

documented in form of an almost-directly executable shell script

I’m annoyed with myself for not thinking of doing this

Opensuse tumbleweed worked with my Dell 2in1 with no dicking around. Give it a shot if other distros aren’t working.

Tumbleweed my dude.

Your best bet is to do some searching around and find a company to do it for you. I work for one of those companies. I play with the real deal laser scanners every day and can confirm that there sure is a reason why a creality handheld scanner costs a couple hundred bucks and a Ziess handheld scanner costs 70k.

I have those exact ones for that exact purpose

Yup, friend of mine describes the aquila as the “AK47 of 3d printers”

Check out what voxelab has.