I use Ubuntu a lot and can say I’ve never used the Ubuntu software center. I’m old enough that I still accidentally type apt-get instead of apt though.

Just did it to test on a couple of files, worked fine.

The least bad imo is making a two drive raidz1 then expanding it.

So the broken pool is kinda stupid and you shouldn’t do it, you will be running without parity the whole time but if you want to risk it it does work.

Or… If you have the drives and space, you can combine a bunch of smaller drives with mdadm (assuming Linux but freebsd has geom I think) and then use that as your third drive, then once everything is copied do a zpool replace. That way you keep full parity the whole time.

Edit: latest version of zfs supports raidz expansion. So you could create a 2 drive raidz1 then copy everything over then expand it. You will still be running your source disk without parity but at least the destination would be safe.

I mean you can remove all remote admin rights on Windows too haha, remote gives you way more opportunities screw stuff up.

But usually on Linux you can boot in single user or chroot in from the installer and unhose whatever you hosed. Windows you get dism and SFC and if they don’t work there’s really not anything you can do.

Honestly I’ve had way more completely bricked Windows installs than Linux. Don’t think I’ve ever managed to completely Bork a Linux install except when doing something extremely stupid. I’ve had Windows get to the point where no amount of SFC of dsim could get to go boot again just by having the power go out during an update or other fairly mundane issues.

W11 by default centers all taskbar icons, including the start menu. You can change it thank goodness but the default is really dumb.

I know you kid but even the 3ds fits a decent number of lines on screen.

My man, most of us aren’t connecting to our mainframes on VT20s these days. Even on my phone screen the three extra lines nano takes over vi aren’t a problem.

Also if you have the time to go through all that you have the time to learn ctrl+x.

In fact, what I use is Maté (an English way of writing the Spanish word Mate).

As a Spanish speaker I’d just like to say

A: wtf is this even supposed to mean?
B: mate and maté are two entirely different words.
C: The mate desktop environment is named after hierba mate, no é.

If you’re gonna go though the trouble of installing a browser, why switch Microsoft for Google? They’re both evil and Edge actually performs significantly better than Chrome somehow (they’re basically the same I don’t get it).

Install freaking Firefox.