That seems fine. Honestly, if he’s new to Linux and wants something stable, maybe consider an atomic distro. But Debian is pretty damn good.
I’d wait until he has requests. Ask for feedback about what he feels like he’s missing and make updates as needed. Easier than trying to anticipate.
Fedora. Silverblue if you want even more stability.
You were fucking with your GPU drivers, lost access to your GPU, and you have concluded from that that “regular users” (who don’t know what a driver is or does) should not use Linux?
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE just has the best name
I’ve been a software engineer for 8 years and I’ve had my own Jellyfin server (and before that, Plex) set up for 4 years on a server that I built myself.
Despite this, I don’t have a damn clue what “virtualized through Proxmox” means any time I read it.
I honestly can’t tell if you’re trolling…
I live right near it, and have a lot of friends that went there. Not a strong opinion. Fortunately for you, you’ll find these two things at almost any university in the United States:
Birds’ nest.
An explanation from one of the maintainers explaining why they removed the toggle from the UI and try to hide it from users because it’s going to be deprecated eventually:
If you happen to care, what you were doing with the program Rufus was creating a “bootable media”. Think back in the day when you had to buy a Windows CD and insert that to install or update Windows. This is kind of the evolution of that. An operating system installer can be loaded into a thumb drive (some utilities even let you put many on one drive, and then you can choose between them) and then you tell your computer to read from the USB drive first (which you did via the BIOS boot menu configuration) and instead of booting up your installed Windows, it gives you the option of installing whatever is on your USB drive.
This is fortunately often a pretty painless process, creating the USB boot loaders isn’t hard, and virtually every single Linux distro out there can be installed in this way.
Glad you’re enjoying Mint, and excellent choice for a new Linux user. If you like it, you’ll never need to change to anything else.
Welcome!
That must have been it, appreciate the clarification.
I’ve used it in the past, but they are deprecating one-way ignore-delete syncing.
My understanding of rsync was that it was pretty painfully slow.
I guess maybe too mainline for everyone here but I use an Asus router flashed with the Merlin OS (a painless easy process) and it works excellently. No issues setting up all the things you mentioned.
I’m a techy and a tinkerer. I run Linux on a lot of machines and I self host some stuff, and I also mod and tune my car.
I keep a windows laptop on hand that at this point I literally only use for tuning software. If something goes wrong with the car I don’t want to go through trying to fuck with booting a niche engine tune program in Wine on a Linux machine with an OS that may or may not even recognize the OBD device needed to flash the tune. Too many places for things to go wrong and the end result is a car I can’t drive.
Unless you’re very comfortable with having your car unusable for long periods of time while you troubleshoot things, I’d highly recommend having a windows laptop for car tuning.
Kinda low on alternatives with rarbg gone. Any recs?
It’s a one-time sync though. If I want history from what I watched on my desktop today I have to resync.
ReVanced taps into my history with microg. When I watch stuff on desktop with Firefox and uBlock Origin, I want those videos to show as watched on my phone when I open ReVanced so I don’t get recommended the same stuff. That works.
GrayJay can’t do this. It’s not better. It’s a good idea, but it’s a side grade.
You forgot apathy. That’s what works for me.