Oh, nice!

Yeah; it’s pretty great. It lacks the excel functions, but if you know some python that is a total non-issue.

I appreciate your mentioning the downside. I am way too much of a tinkerer for a read-only root to be acceptable for me, but I’m glad you found something you like.

True, but the outlay of cost for the hardware was higher than the value of Bitcoin you would receive.

bitcoin mining hasn’t been profitable for a long time. Like, a decade or so.

Local python uses ~/.local/bin, so in the interest of avoiding conflict, it is probably better to use ~/bin.

What the heck? This bends my brain.

This is not that big of a deal most of the time, since you are the only person interacting with your computer, but it’s worth remembering when you decide to recycle or donate – you have to securely wipe in that case. Also bear in mind, if you do encrypt your drive, there are now more possibilities for total data loss.

Oh, fun fact: you can change a users windows password inside Linux. Comes in handy for recovery, ie, user forgot their password.

It’s a professional-grade graphic design software.

Ubuntu – the one with the Nelson Mandela video and the picture of people holding hands in a circle.

If it works, it works – glad you found a way

Claws searches reasonably quickly and unlike thunderbird it isn’t a total resource hog. OTOH it suffers from not being multi threaded, which means when you first install it, expect it to take literally hours before it finishes syncing all your emails.

Mutt is not multi threaded either. Only thunderbird and kmail are, and kmail is a buggy mess, while thunderbird eats your ram like it’s a plate of cheese danishes.

Firefox doesn’t suck imho

Look up ffupdate on GitHub. The latest vanilla Firefox on any Linux with just 1 command (after it’s been configured)

Still using Firefox. They mean well. Wish I could say the same of chrome.

Lol; I’ve done this too. Thankfully not to anything important.

Lxqt, with pcmanfm’s desktop ability turned off. I use the terminal for my file management anyway

I usually have several terminal tabs and web browser tabs open plus a tmux session. Neovim for coding and writing, feh and mpv for viewing media, mpd, supysonic, and minidlna for streaming and playing music.

An immutable distro would be a good choice. They are distros designed to be more resilient against failure. For a gamer, bazzite is a solid choice; otherwise, silverblue.

Check out gold warden – I will install it also. It’s a general improvement on the official bitwarden desktop application.

That’s not true though. A browser running in a Linux desktop shows ads just like any other OS, and ad blocker browser extensions are platform agnostic.