“Well perfect! Get the new one just so you have a safety net, I’ll istall Linux on the old one and you can play around with it, and when you decide that Linux is actually the best, you can install it on your main machine! If Linux ends up not being for you, I’ll prob buy the old laptop for cheap if you want a few extra bucks.”

But my two kicker 12"s, kenwood head unit, and JL audio speakers are better than the broken tape deck that used to be in my 2002. And it wasn’t that hard to just install myself, bro.

And linux was better on my 2015 Toshiba Satellite with 8gb DDR(was it even 3?) that outright refused to run windows 10 because it was so bloated, because Linux ran. By the time I got to upgrading the PC, why would I have gone back to windows after tasting true freedom?

Good to know, thanks!

Huh, neat! Never seen this, how is it?

I:

A) Try Wine. No? Ok…

B) Hello windows using friend or relative, can I borrow your PC for 30 min? No? Ok…

C) Hey work IT man, so, I know this is dumb but I need to run a program called pkhex. Yeah it’s a hex editor specifically for pokemon hex files. Yeah I can get you anything on your cart. I can get you a legit Mew, even change your OT name from whatever you thought was cool in 1998. Ok so I need admin to download that real fast because I run Fedora, you bring your cart tomorrow and we can do this on lunch.

Typically option B is enough lol.

Whine with your dollars, the companies that make the decision don’t give a fuck about shit else.

So, I’m gonna be a bit of a contrarian here, but my main advice is to abandon requirements 1 and 3.

As to 2, you’d be looking for an immutable or atomic distro, those are harder to fuck up.

BUT I urge you not to be afraid of the terminal, it isn’t as scary as it looks! Try watching/following along with a couple “linux terminal for beginners” or “bash for beginners” videos on youtube like they’re a class. They’ll teach you the basics you need to be a LOT more comfortable within like an hour, and you’ll be a lot better off for it. I did the same and now a few years in I prefer the terminal for many things and cringe when I have to use the windows GUI at work for something that would take seconds on linux by typing one command that amounts to a sentence. It’s a very powerful and convenient tool and I reccomend not shutting yourself off from it.

No matter the distro, you’re likely not going to fuck it up so bad it can’t be fixed, but do be careful when using sudo in the terminal as that is when it’s more likely. That said, no matter what (even if you stayed on windows), you should keep offsite backups of your most important files, things you couldn’t just redownload again. That way if you do fuck up, you can always just reinstall and replace your files no problem, it’s free! Sure nobody wants to take like an hour to do that, but still nothing gets lost which is the most important part.

As for not requiring a password, no. You want the password checks. Security is important, and what’s more the password checks themselves can act as a “be careful this could fuck your shit up” warning. As annoying as they are, it can be a good thing!

I’m sure you’ll get plenty “try this distro” responses so I’m not even going to go there, but my advice honestly applies to all distros equally.

Tl;dr: Passwords safe, terminal good actually.

Fuck yeah I did, but only if I pull up to a McMansion with a larger order and get no tip.

Section 8 no tip? I get it.

McMansion large tip? Thanks have a nice night.

McMansion no tip? I’ll remember you and shake your soda next time. Probably stop at the store for snacks and a pack of heaters on the way too.

Idfc how much you order or if you’re 1 or 15 people, or anything else like that, but rich stingy cunts get judged.

(Also if you order and immediately hop in the shower making me stand there knocking for 5min when I show up, I’m mad and think you’re dumb. Just shower after you eat or before you call ffs, I have two other runs in the car getting cold because you thought you were slick.)

Well tarnation. I thought it had to be the one I used because when I go to mount the first part of that drive in nnn it says no, then when I try to mount that partition it says “yes but oh wait permission denied cause root.”

Thanks, I’ll try these out!

unless you configure it as user mountable and not auto mounted in fstab.

Maybe all I have to do is this actually, I need to read that fstab man page. I absolutely did not understand that I could use things like noauto and nofail instead of default until this thread.

Hey I have a quick question I haven’t been able to find the answer to regarding nnn, if you don’t mind.

So, I have nnn and the plugins set up as normal, however I need to run some of those plugins as root. If I sudo nnn, my plugins don’t transfer, so I put the plugin files in root’s .config and the line in root’s .bashrc, but I can’t figure out how to do the source ~/.bashrc command part for root’s .bashrc.

If I source /root/.bashrc it says permission denied, if I run it with sudo it says sudo: source: command not found.

You wouldn’t happen to have been down this road before, would you?

Thanks I might just try that! Worst case scenario “repeat step a” now that I know how to fix my dumbassery! And if that cuts my root pass out of the equation it’ll serve my purposes lol.

Oh man thanks! Looks like (without clicking yet) the second and third links are going to be a major help!

I do indeed want to mount on demand (just not root) not auto-mount, and for SURE could have used this nofail today haha!

Thanks again!

Hmm AI my old nemesis. Still, perhaps it may be necessary for me and AI to work out our differences momentarily, as I am so far unable to find the answers I seek.

Seems I’m the only one who wants it not to auto-mount, but rather to simply be able to be mounted not as root and still require the luks pass.

Plenty of people seem to want to do the exact opposite though, auto mount it and bypass the luks password (which imo almost defeats the purpose, though I get it, still protected at rest and all, but my way it’s still protected until you specifically call upon it!)

Woof ok looks like I have some research to do, thanks! Hopefully I can find a handy youtube tut or stackoverflow on it, because that’s about my level of expertise on “linux stuff I haven’t done at least twice” haha.

I’m back! Thanks for the help! Booted off the usb and deleted my shame from fstab haha.

Though, I actually specifically don’t want it to auto-mount, as dumb as that sounds. I just want it so that when I click “1.9tb encrypted drive” in dolphin it only asks for the luks pass but not root, currently I have to type the luks pass and then root pass every time.

Also for nmount in nnn, which can only mount stuff as a normal non-root user.

Idk why my internal secondary requires root while I can mount a flash drive or encrypted external ssd just fine without it.

Yes, and I could type my drive’s pass, it just would hang up after 45s of not being able to find that drive (or whatever) and fail to boot.

BUT someone else posted “hey dummy boot off a usb and fix fstab,” and that’s what I did and I’m back to booting!

(OK I’m the one calling me a dummy lol they were very nice, I just can’t believe I didn’t think to do that in my panic haha)

Now I just need to figure out how to actually make the drive not require root, but also not auto mount, and still prompt for the luks pass lol.

Thank you for your help anyway!

Ayyyy why didn’t I think of that?! Thank you!

Booted off a stick, deleted that line and saved, rebooted and we’re back in action!

Would there possibly be any chance you could point me to the correct way to do what I’m trying to?

Basically I’m trying to make it so that when I click the drive to mount it, it still prompts me for the luks pass but not root.

Idk why it needs root, none of my externals do, you’d think it would require root for unknown externals, not the internal secondary!

Thanks, just gave it a quick checking out, think I’ll quite like it when I figure out how to actually use it lol.