You can easily search for news on Linux malware. Most recently npm was affected.

Npm is used by a lot of software, so updating your software from valid sources could easily infect your machine.

It’s also dead simple to misconfigure something on Linux, like your firewall, leaving your machine exposed to the internet. Linux doesn’t bother you nearly as much as windows does when it comes to updating and restarting. Windows used to be that way too but had to adapt to the changing threat landscape.

With VMs you can try as many at once as your system can support, with less risk than booting up on a livecd, and the ability to switch between them without having to reboot.

Moving files manually is fine.

Don’t use an EoL/EoS OS, full stop.

Start up virtualbox or any virtual machine on your windows machine and test drive a few different distributions until you find one you like.

Use windows built in backup services or something like the Veeam free backup agent before blowing up your system.

I would also move my files to a cloud services, even if it’s temporary.

Install the distribution your choice.

Spin up virtual box again and restore your machine into it. You may have license activation issues but you’ll have access your data. Move your data out of the VM and onto your home folder.

Also note that win11 isn’t nearly as bad as people here say.

Linux has malware. It’s just different. Linux supports nvidia, a usb boot would help you determine how well your hardware is supported.

Once an OS boots there’s not really a lot of need for ssd. Save ssd for the apps.

Two companies, the manufacturer and the store. And it’s happened a lot in the past.

Glad you’re trying to steer one of them into the right direction.

I recently bought a perishable that I opened the following day. It had mold on it, while the “best by” date was 2 months away.

The contact info they listed on the package didn’t work.

I contacted the store I bought it from, just to let them know they might have a bad batch

A week later I get contacted back. They said bring it in and the receipt for a refund.

No one at these companies really gives a shit.

“How I Did It” would be a good title.

It offers some other features like hybrid access to data,If my nas isn’t available I can access it from their cloud. There’s also some identity services.

I think testosterone has a lot to do with it. Anyone that started taking T can tell you that.

Backup to 2nd nas.

Important stuff gets backed up to cloud storage. Whatever is cheapest.

In my case Synology c2 cloud was cheapest.

Microsoft will take its name.

Expanding the seats of supreme justices, executive orders to undo Trumps, replace every person Trump assigned, then instructing congress to put some laws down to fix all the holes the GOP used and abused.

Put the DOJ onto prosecuting a number of people that were performing illegal activities.

He can also instruct DHS to rake the forest instead of doing much anything else.

Servers are just expensive hardware. You can accomplish 95% with a consumer grade desktop without all the extra power/heat/noise and dependencies on specific hardware.

Harbor freight sells battery powered hammer drills and masonry bits that are cheap and powerful enough to drill a few inches into concrete in under a minute.

They also had saws and saw blades used for cutting up masonry.

You should buy both. Don’t mess around with VIP UAT.

Reolink might be another to consider.

https://orb.net/ monitors your internet performance.

https://tailscale.com/ access your home internet or devices when you’re away from home. Usually only helpful if you have a NAS, but I’ve used it to stream tv shows without having to get bothered or blocked because the service can only be used in the US. I watched some NFL over youtubetv while in Germany for example.

OpenVAS is a vulnerability scanner that appears to be open source.

Metasploit is another that I think is free and might be open source.

Mine runs Orb and Tailscale as an exit node.

True but it’s designed to be on networks that don’t have internet.

Tplink Omada doesn’t need a cloud connection. There’s plenty of other reasons to not like Omada but it’s something to consider. It’s also dirt cheap.