install snap to run MS edit … more likely I’d install ms-dos 3.22 and run the original edit in there.

In most countries they are not allowed to access medical records of any kind (read it’s illegal). If the job requires it they can required to be tested “fit for the job”. Even though they pay for that they only get a yes or no but no specifics

and speed of patching, and in in-place upgrades, and in adding new packages, and in start-up, and in reboot, and in HW requirements, and in … I can’t really think of anything I use/need/do that windows does better.

I like the idea ! And looked at the project on github. But … snap disgust me so much more than searching the right source, i’m not adapting to it. But still nice thinking!

but…but… It’s sooooooo easy and convenient for you and it’s safe, we pinky-promise!

Same in Linux. No disk encryption and everything is easy accessible if you have physical access.

I found graylog and the likes nice but as you said heavy on resources. I now have a central rsyslog server (on debian 12) that first does some filtering of log lines I don’t care about and then stores log in postgress. Grafana lives on that same host and I’m very happy with it. It performs quite well with just a fraction of resources graylog had as bare minimum. (The server has 4 sockets and 8Gb mem, storage to SSD while 4 firewalls, 3 switches, 4 AP’s and 20 servers logging to it) In the proxmox console I see 2Gb mem is used and the cpu is bored (<5%)

My suggestion, try variouse live distro’s from an USB. Alternatively install debian from it’s ISO and select ALL desktop environments. Then on login you can select which on to use for the current session. Once you made your choice you can do use tasksel to remove the others (although I’d do a re-install with just the one I want)

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