Though one would expect such technically inclined users to install the OS themselves. When I bought my 16 I bought “no OS” because while Fedora (which I knew would be installed) was an option I wanted FDE and so I chose to install it myself. It’s possible many of these were first time linux users who wanted the savings but also the ease of buying with a pre-installed OS.

Tbh even if they figure it out (and they should, not everyone is me) I probably won’t use it often, I like the extra layer of security having to type my LUKS pass to unlock the FDE then my User pass, just in case. Plus as you noted it starts plenty fast already at under 30sec, it’s not a 5min boot like windows on my old laptop.

Dude honestly I cannot recommend this enough, and to all who are in a similar position:

While you still have your main system as a fallback, get a used cheap laptop with ~8gb ram just to fuck around and try linux, install [your distro] FedoraKDE, and play around.

If a relative or friend is upgrading and gonna trash their current because the HW is choked by windows, ask to buy it for a reasonable price, cheap to you because old trash HW anyway, but a couple bucks to help them with their new purchase, win win. That HW that will no longer run windows will run linux just fine, and then you can main the laptop for a bit while you learn but still can boot into your old system to troubleshoot and also don’t have to fuck with dual booting and windows fucking with your linux or boot partitions.

On bash I found out alt+. puts the last last parameter back up, and you can hit it again to keep cycling, that’s what I’ve been using.

Fair enough

I don’t think Meshtastic would work for that with a 200char limit.

Usenet and torrents otoh, already can’t stop that. Not to mention lying is still a thing. I’m 136 years old so I should know.

Wait, so instead of me telling every website I’m 90, I’ll tell my OS I’m 90 and the sites will query that, and this somehow works better? I’m not 90 btw, so all I’m doing is just changing who I’m lying to from zyn.com to Fedora? Great plan.

1/1/1970*

“No, I have 3 4tb drives and 5 1tb drives. I mean I do have 15 sticks around but most of those have a linux distro on them and the others are for general use.”

Or do, what are they gonna do about it if I don’t really live there? Fuck 'em.

How do you customize it yourself? Every time I try to find info online I just find “use themes,” but I’m not looking for whole themes, I want to kinda sorta slowly theme it myself like “oh I want this to be that color” and stuff, I just don’t know what .conf files or whatever I need to edit.

Woah, just now learning of this legendary third Olsen sister. She uhh… she goddamn cute. The twins always kinda creeped me out, this was an unforseen twist.

Sure probably (though I wonder how you’d get caught) but if it’s “for work” then imo it should be a work laptop and then likely has windows already and they won’t (often) let you install linux anyway.

I opened the LibreOffice doc in word.com and the only reason it was different was fonts.

Doesn’t have to be! You can snag the fonts folder directly from a windows install under C:\Windows\Fonts and drop them directly into /usr/share/fonts on your linux install (and then iirc you have to either reboot or run sudo fc-cache in the terminal to rescan the directory).

You can also download them from Soulseek assuming I’m online (which I am not currently) and probably other locations (but be safe about it of course).

Now, if you can’t let Windows go because of Roblox or Apex, I can’t help you.

Nobody can but the companies that make it. Mostly due to kernel level anticheat (which you shouldn’t install on windows either tbh). Some games like Destiny run fine but they just ban your acct for playing on linux, it isn’t linux that is the problem, it’s Bungie (etc).

Large files huh? “Large” like “4k videos of blackmail material” large or what are we talking here?

Fedora just runs my large 4k videos of totally not pirated movies just fine, I’ve never had a file too large to access.

For even more “fun”, try opening a file in Audacity / Tenacity, which will default to raw mode if it can’t tell what a file is, and you get to see the waveform and so on. Just take care not to modify and save over an important file with that.

Well, unless that file (though, work with copies of course!!) is a .bmp image. Then try applying some “audio” affects to sections or the whole thing and see what it does to the image and export it, can get some neat stuff.

Praise “Bob” (and Databending).

https://www.slackradio.org/

Praise “Bob”

Tuta sucks, they deleted an acct of mine for inactivity, then when I went to replace it they flagged the new one for manual review and said “this addr cannot send mail until the review clears, please reach out to our support team using the email we just said can’t send email for some reason.” I went with Disroot.

GrapheneOS is super easy to install, they have a walkthrough on their site.

Tbh even if I could I wouldn’t want to, the terminal is so much better for many things. I advise new users to become comfortable with it at least by following along with a few “linux terminal basics” vids like it’s a class.

Yeh