An alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:

1. Drop to rescue/emergency/single-user mode.
2. Do your changes to the user account
3. Drop back to multiuser mode.

s/chatgpt/journalists/ too.

They my go to to quickly triage a problem being caused by SEL or not.

Not quite. But sorta, yeah.

Learning to “not fuck with it” or ways to do so and rollback are valid lessons themselves.

Being able to segregate “production” and “development” environments is very valuable.

100%

The alternative being variations on:

Hi my name is [redacted], I have [X] years experience.

Please run sfc /scannow.

You can find more help at [Irrelevant KB URL].

Please rank me 5 stars.

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Theoretically one could also prohibit rebooting.

IIRC kexec is pivot_root but for the kernel.

Anything you need to buy is more expensive than anything you already have.

Especially if youre worried about power costs.

Reuse wha you have, replace when you need to.

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

Mine are all named for the colour of the case, or case accent when ambiguous, though network infrastructure items are named for their models, being the typical default.

I sometimes use A records or mDNS-SD for the actual services provided and use a *.home.arpa. domain.

Another theme at another site is native fauna and flora names.

No cringe, no pop culture.

And allow cookies from one hundred partners.

First you cut the tree down, then you cut it up.

I thought this was a request for Stack Overflow proof.

Then figured that was 'proof from pasting random crap from SO".

Then figured it’s the same thing.

Amy distro will be suitable, create yourself as the first user when installing (which will probably be added to the wheel/sudoers group or whatever) then create a new ‘standard’ user.

Most distribution defaults should be adequate.

For added safety, choose one that is immutable like, for example, Fedora atomic.

The nouveau drivers are just barely enough to have a desktop, anything actually needing a GPU will perform very poorly (in my anecdotal experience with 4K). Or, to put it another way, choosing an NVIDIA card is choosing their proprietary drivers.

So you’re left with AMD (and Intel). The open amdgpu driver is pretty good and is suitable for gaming. Which I do.

I have no experience with Intel, but I believe their open drivers are pretty good.

So I recommend AMD.

Such actions are typically indicative of having a micropenis. being a colossal jerk.

Please avoid using denigrating terms.

They’re the same picture meme.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Potentially faster installation

Particularly when you’re flashing the ISO you downloaded from MS to USB and it doesn’t work unless you use MS’s magic tool. Thus dropping you into the bootstrap paradox.

Especially because it gets partway through the install before failing to load NVMe drivers complaining there is no installation media to load them from.

It turns out it’s faster to install Ubuntu and download one of MS’s windows VM’s and use that to download and flash a USB than actually install Windows 11.

Common parts are available and easy to get, relatively cheaply.

Specialist parts are somewhat more difficult.

You may as well just bring your existing gear.

Mainly the blood though.

find ~ ... would be quicker, auto generated files are likely stored in ~/. cache per-profile.

Quicker… as in for a first-stab, then /var. Rather than scanning the whole disk.