If you’re this familiar with all the moving bits of this, why are you asking?
I’m only saying this because this is obviously someone who read a bunch of stuff about various things that are beyond their technical expertise but have no idea why they would even need such a stack.
Kind of a crazy thing to ask about here.
If you’re running the exact same version, just do an apt update and then see if upgrade packages show up.
You can send entire folders from Android/iOS just fine with a normal file browser.
Downloads for all platforms: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html
KDEConnect is honestly going to be better. It’s runs on everything (yes, Gnome and Cinnamon), has transport and device security, and offers more than just file transfer.
In all practical reality, Linux takes A LOT to topple over like this. It certainly would fair better than Windows with wonky hardware, but if it’s a laptop for example, maybe your fans aren’t working and therefore it’s a heat. Just try and define what kind of freeze it is first.
If it’s just Desktop usage, not much difference than using anything else. Make sure to install updates when asked, and that’s about it.
Just be clear that downloading anything for Windows will not be compatible.
They all have issues. The OS portion is just ramping up again brought on by the Google coup on Android.
Honestly, you’d be better off getting something that runs a better Android OS for now versus running a Linux derivative.
The main issues:
It’s a good lesson to learn if you’re working with Samba frequently. Just always that there are two auth systems at work: SMB local to the server and filesystem, and the SMB protocol auth that does network access.
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It’s not just a config thing, you need the local guest user and an smbpasswd entry to match: https://serverfault.com/questions/630631/how-to-make-samba-share-to-not-ask-for-password#632296
If you just want to remotely interact with LUKS to unlock it, I think dropbear-initramfs module is your only option.
Clevis+Tang is essentially the same thing but automatic, and yes it does require a separate machine and network access to that machine.
This post is phrased in an incredibly confusing way that doesn’t make parsing the problem possible.
Please rephrase in steps to illustrate the issue you have, such as:
Clevis with TPM+Tang is the most secure you’re going to get as far as automated unlocking goes.
Dropbear is still a thing, but going to be more problematic.
You must be mistaken. The sticks you mention have max out at 1080p, and with 2GB of mem, you’re not going to be running any desktop for very long. The Atom chips and the memory limitations just don’t make these useful candidates for anything with a DE.
About all they’re good for is signage and maybe assist tasks with HA. You won’t be able to drive a decent enough display to do normal desktop things for certain. Maybe use them as little seed devices or something.
I mean…if you just want a text-based working environment, there are plenty, but nothing as a full DE that I’m aware for a number of reasons.
I think VTM is the one that is most like what you posted, but there are also other terminal environments that act similar to eDEX, but I would lump more in the IDE category.
Your drive is encrypted. You either need to disable that, or boot back into Windows and shrink the partition and clear up space to install.
The only other option the installer sees with no free space is take over the entire drive.
AMD will have superior support and better power management out of the box hands down.
Nvidia may have a minor performance improvement in some areas depending on the card, but not in a way you would care if you aren’t obsessed with the technical specifics of the graphics on AAA games.
I’ve been on Linux as a dev and daily driver for 20 years, and Nvidia drivers are just problematic unless you know exactly how to fix them when there are issues. That’s an Nvidia problem, not a Linux problem. Cuda on AMD is also a thing if you want to go that route.
The choice is yours.
This is SO specific though…