Why is it better than just using nano or whatever?

The librarian at your school 30 years ago probably also taught you about the card catalogue and the Dewey Decimal System.

Have you… never been to a library?

yt-dlp?

I was thinking that a lot of them are too young to even know what those are… My thought was that they’ve been raised on GUI for everything, without being able to tinker even if they wanted to, that the entire concept of CLI is alien to them.

You don’t need to be into tech stuff. You can do everything in CLI that you can do in GUI (but not necessarily vice-versa). Just because you are better with visual shit doesn’t mean that either approach is “right” or “wrong.”

This is ultimately why I switched from Arch… Now I’ve just got an Arch distrobox and if it breaks, no big deal.

Sounds like a win/win if they no longer come to you for troubleshooting

The reason I had no problem whatsoever editing config files is because I’d been doing it for decades already in Windows with .ini files.

And not needing a terminal is different than not having access to one. Windows has a terminal.

If laptops started coming pre-installed with Linux Mint…

This is exactly how I felt when I switched to Linux and it “clicked”.

This is what personal computers were supposed to always be like before Capitalism ruined it for everyone.

No, I meant I literally couldn’t understand what your comment was trying to say…

Ah, I know that story already from the bible. It wasn’t stem cells 2000 years ago, but it’s similar significant, because of few test persons and fewer lucky ones.

For the life of me, I cannot parse this…

The one defining trait of every conservative: “I don’t care about it until it affects me personally”

Thanks for the info. Does ZFS allow for easy snapshotting like btrfs? Or like the stuff in the backend that allows you to do things like, say, edit a filename while the file is open?

As someone who uses btrfs mostly (sometimes ext4, but I don’t really know why…), can someone explain the benefits of ZFS over the previous two I mentioned?

Brutal lol

I’m the furthest thing from an expert in linux encryption, but can you not use KDE’s “Vaults” feature to create encrypted folders/drives? I think it uses “CryFS” as the backend (according to KDE. Don’t really know enough about it).

I’ve used them on my btrfs drive and seemed to work fine.

I look forward to all funding for this disappearing given the target demographic.

Hell yeah… I’ve been using it for maybe 6 months now and I really like it. OStree took a little getting used to, but I’ve grown to really like the “immutable” concept. Very stable.

And as someone who loves gaming, Bazzite has so much shit pre-installed and pre-configured (or very easily installed/configured) to make that experience better.

Cannot recommend it enough.