I know and I still have high hopes, but it’s still behind. Back then BeOS was what I used exclusively, these days it would need to have a version of KVM to run virtual machines to make up for what’s needed and isn’t there.

if someone came out with something brand new that wasn’t Linux or MacOS or Windows and it was a better tool than all of them

RIP BeOS

I didn’t see anywhere about it being able to install/restore system images, I’m assuming it can do that given what it’s based on though.

I’m referring to certain people. I’ve transitioned people over and help them out with it, like my dad for instance who I have no expectations that he’d learn what a dotfile even is much less troubleshoot a problem.

What you should have done if you’re unwilling to nuke Windows, which you clearly are, was to swap out your boot drive and install Linux directly. Any drive will do for that purpose. You didn’t try Linux, not really. You used some apps that run it.

They didn’t want to constantly rely on me to fix every little thing they break instead of learning how to do it themselves.

No wait, that was my reason for not switching them. 😆

Make a keychain out of it.

TIL KDE is a distro and not a DE. 🙄

One thing that I did when distro hopping was to have /home be separate like you have, but I would back it up elsewhere and let it be a clean start which I could bring over what I wanted from the backup.

It was easier than hunting down which dotfile the new distro didn’t like.

Using apps by popularity instead of on their actual usefulness is pretty wild.

Yes it can.

$ man fstrim

Reboot if it bothers you but it’s harmless.

Why don’t you just use the one you like? Wine isn’t the clunky near-useless thing it once was, you can probably just run the Notepad++ installer and use it like any other app.

It would probably fail unless var was a block device actually. It wouldn’t turn a directory in to a file.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/var

But really, remove what you don’t use and/or stop using flatpak.

Full system updates without a reboot? Sign me up.

That’ll work, as long as you never touch it. Between skin oil and just the physical touching it wouldn’t last long.

You can but unless they’re easily swapped with a ready made key it’s usually not worth the time effort and cost.

If Mint is misbehaving that badly on that hardware I’d be far more inclined to blame the hardware. What is it?