Ken D'Ambrosio

Sooooo... we should show how awesome we are by being as bad as them? Because that checks out.

Heyyyyyy... Star office was, like, the second office suite for Linux. I paid money for it -- and it was a huge step up.

Yeah, no. You are going at this the wrong way. Your problem isn't the cable, it's the media. Get an SSD in a USB 3.1 enclosure. Or get a high-quality USB drive -- like my PNY. I just wrote 30 GB at 157 MB/s, *with* dd's "oflag=direct" to avoid OS buffering.
Plenty fast.

MacOS original flavor did not have a command line. MacOS current version is literally Unix, so that's not exactly news. Likewise, Windows pre-NT/2000/XP ran on top of DOS; in a sense, it was like Linux/Unix. Now, the CLI is embedded in the UI.

Damnnnnn...

Bricked the keyboard?! Damnnnnn. And, yeah, I usually use more generic laptops: business Dell and Thinkpad models. If you've got a GPU, that's the thing to watch out for. Not too late to convert to dual boot! ;-)

It's amazing. And people *defend* his peacefully asking questions and then being handcuffed. "Have you heard of manners" was one I saw. The mind boggles.

There's a *reason* people make Linux suggestions: it has the ability to get down and dirty. From Windows, I have no idea how to wipe the very start of disk, which is what you need to do: the MBR and partition table, basically. Time for ChatGPT? Good luck.

* One thing that can slow a host, though less frequently in this age of SSD drives, is a spinning disk drive beginning to have media flaws. Do a
dmesg | grep -i read
and look for info about read errors. That's a sign the disk urgently needs to be backed up and replaced.

Zombie processes. You can't kill them; they are already dead. (No, really.) They are prevented from exiting due to the parent not reaping them properly. They aren't consuming resources other than an entry in the process table. Restart the parent process, and gone. They will never slow a system.

Solid article, but a couple things stand out.
* OOM -- this refers to the Out of Memory process killer, a kernel hueristic used by the kernel when memory pressure is tight. If a process is no longer running, you can check to see if it was killed by OOM:
dmesg | grep -i oom

LOL. I would need to bump those numbers -- 35 and 30 -- but otherwise that serves as boilerplate for my position as well.

If you say so. I'd be very interested to hear which packages broke. Because, as someone who is Debian on my servers, Ubuntu on a single (ARM) laptop and my RasPi, and Mint for everything else, I haven't had a breaking update in a decade(?) -- back when they didn't have good upgrade paths.

In legalese, that's called "a righteous bitchslap." Just sayin'.

Seriously. I live NH, helped out as a worker bee for his 2020 run, and have followed him ever since, and while I'm sure he swears in private, I have never seen him do so in any public forum until now.
Dayamn.

I've decided to create a portmanteau of "dear leader" and "leopard are my face:" "dear leopard are my face." Or just "dear leopard" for short.

Marry me.
I mean, my wife might object, but that was brilliant.

I like Appimage as it's completely app-agnostic.

Are they not archived at the Way back Machine?

22.04 is LTS; while desktop may not be directly supported after April, server is for another two years. I'd stick with desktop and call it good.

"Tow the line." Yep. Genius material there.

OMG
NEED

Patience. Start with Mint -- it's the one most likely to have all your drivers, and it's solid and easy to use. Expect hiccups; take satisfaction in figuring things out. Also, and I say this as someone who used Linux exclusively, if you're primarily interested in gaming, stick with Windows.

Or /var/log/messages for Redhat-derived distros.

Get the minimal/net boot image of Debian, and you're pretty close, IIRC.

Feel free to ping me with any questions. (30-year Linux admin.)

If I understand you correctly, yes. This assumes your desktop isn't doing the streaming to which you refer.

This also includes things you don't own, but use: Amazon, Google, eBay, PayPal; basically, the substantial majority of online services run on Linux computers. The one place, really, that Linux *doesn't* reign supreme is the desktop.

Sorry for my delay in replying -- it's been a busy week and I just now saw your post. Yes, your TV, your Fire stick, your e-reader, your Android phone, your smart refrigerator -- the list goes on, and all are likely to be Linux of one stripe or another.

AI is why I ditched Google Pixel phones.and went to Moto. I'm not a complete Luddite -- I still want apps, etc. -- but Lord, I don't need them trying to force me to embrace my phone making decisions for me.