For mine, not TrueNAS, I boot to a live USB stick, so drives are not in use and do an full gparted copy to a back up drive, so it is a clone. Should the system die I swap the whole drive out.

Disable aliasing I guess, or change to root owner, read only permission

Then lock bash rc as read-only and root permission only, or disable aliasing altogether I guess

I guess that depends on distro, because sudo on OpenSUSE requires root password, so a script isn’t doing anything unless you enter the password

The inclusion of open H264 was helpful.

Shhh don’t tell them about 3rd party repos. That’s why I somewhat disclaimed it with the Learning Curve, but having yast and snapper for me onboard as a new Linux user was very helpful.

That’s a good point to hit. Our system encouraged everyone to get a university degree to find work/career, but it doesn’t have to be the path.

Lots of skilled trades out there that offer lots of opportunity to move up while earning well.

My example, I went to Uni because that’s what you do but ran out of my own funds year one, so had to go back to work to save for next round. I started working on the shop floor at a tooling place. They had openings for designers in engineering so I got in there and learned tooling design using CAD/CAM software, they offered apprenticeships so night school was free. As tooling became more automated it led to learning hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical wiring and controls. Later into Lean philosophy for plant efficiencies, etc. Along the way you are in charge of the project and manage time.

Now after 35+ years and changing jobs, my role is often as a consultant and includes mentoring engineers on how to use various software offerings (auto or industrial), or going into companies to conduct audits and produce reports that hilight what they can do better.

It was an organic path, where each learning step along the way led to something new opening up. So rather than a long paragraph like above I think its important for them to not be to anxious; because you can change paths and make choices along the way and end up with something enjoyable of your own making.

Zorin is user friendly. You may still need to use a password for doing updates.

If you game, then probably Bazzite.

If you hate the command line you could try tumbleweed, you will have Yast2 GUI apps for everything yo want to alter on the system. And it has automatic snapshotting if out you mess things up, you can boot to a previous snapshot. Howeverits will require a password whenever you want to make system changes. And a learning curve compared to other distros.

Not really getting away from typing a password, that’s the part that can keep malicious stuff out because it doesn’t have permission.

+1 Its a great workbook

GrapheneOS with a pixel device, de googled. Google Play store can be left out or sand boxed in.

These are excellent

I like coffee flavour and the habit of it. But every once in a while I quite drinking it for months, and waking up in the morning feels so much better. There’s no morning grogginess, or oveall tired feeling, just wide awake instantly and ready for the day. Caffeine really does make us dependent even though it is subtle

For both of those the YAST GUI is just search package , check the one you want, hit Apply. But yeah, outside of the repos, and the community repos finding .rpm packages is harder than .debs.

Xonotic still has players :)

OpenSUSE always worked well for my installs. Typically on an nVidia machine though I’d have to add the nvidia hosted repos for OpenSUSE, after main install and install the proprietary drivers.

Red Star OS has a meta data capture and reencode feature so North Korean authority can check who a picture was created, and access, or shared by.

Need that kind of image locking, without the fascism part

I used delve – with emdash on occasion – in sentences.

AAA first person shooters. At some point new releases are just are a rehash of the exact game mechanics.

UV cured resin could be any type of material cures by UV, so different plastic resin types are possible

In Vanadium got to Settings, Privacy and Security, Accessibility, then turn on the Viewer notification.