I went and checked out Thunar because of this post, and regardless of the original intention, I have found a file manager I much prefer as a result. Thank you.

Awesome, thank you! Saving this comment so that I can refer to this in the future as well.

Oh, that’s beautiful. Thank you!

So the software you are trying to configure is using an outdated version of nodejs, has a poor default username/password combination, and doesn’t implement PAM by default/easily.

Yes, I definitely want people to use Linux if they would like to, but perhaps not the node.js web application your complaints actually refer to which don’t seem to have much at all if anything to do with Linux itself.

If your only real complaint on the OS side is that nodejs is too up to date, perhaps consider raising your concerns on the Mine-OS projects github instead of directing your anger at a tangentially related operating system. It’s like getting mad at your cars engine when you are having trouble figuring out how to roll down the new windows you just had installed at a third-party body shop.

That was my thought as well.

Back when I was new to Linux, I tried a lot of different distros in virtualization for shorter periods of time, and of course ran into the issues that come with the cutting edge stuff.

Last year I wanted to install a distribution to my laptop properly as a test before putting it onto my desktop, and I came to that same conclusion because at the end of the day I couldn’t justify using bleeding edge, because I couldn’t really even name anything I NEEDED from it. Yes, it is fun to have cool, new things, and it can be a lot of fun to play around with in a VM or something, but I don’t actually need any of that stuff for what I do on a computer day to day right this second.

After that, the answer was pretty clear for me as to what distribution to use.

Prompt is pretty simple, mainly just adjusted coloring and added a timestamp.

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;36;01m\]\t \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\[\033[01;37;01m\]\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;36m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

Maybe 1 or 2 back when things were less stable, but any time I have used Linux in the past 7 years or so, and particularly since I started using Debian as my primary OS, I haven’t had any problems outside of trying to get some windows applications to emulate correctly, and one time when I echo’d into sources.list with > instead of >>. Anything else is just stuff I had to learn, like my boot folder filling up with old images that have to be cleaned out occasionally.

My understanding with Tuta is that you cannot configure it to work with a third party desktop email client though, you are locked in to using theirs. You can’t configure a Tuta email address to work with mutt or something for example I believe as there is no regular imap/pop like there are for services that don’t use E2EE, or services that have some form of bridge for that like Proton did.

Maybe I am misinformed though.

Using timeshift. Very, very easy, works great.

For nvidia drivers it probably took me about 15 minutes and one page off of the Debian wiki.

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

You basically add some repositories, install the drivers, and then set and check some configurations depending on what other parts of your environment look like.

Debian. Solid as a mountain.

This is too bad to hear. I installed Debian stable and have no issues gaming despite also using NVIDIA hardware at present.

What issues did you have with your games?

This would be what I was thinking of then, thanks for clarifying.

If Windows and Linux are installed on the same drive under different partitions, I seem to recall that a Windows update can fuck your Linux partition.

Was there a Windows update recently?

I go from the repos myself.

At the minute, a true open source and free browser/web engine, though I know this is nigh impossible to maintain without thousands of people. Some part of me is hopeful though given recent events.

The problem with Element as it compares to discord in my experience of showing it to discord-heavy users is that it does not contain the feature set that they are seeking.

Discords roles and permissions abilities, multiple channel types, streaming capabilities, public bots that are easily joinable, profile customization features, moderation capabilities, and more have no real equivalent in Matrix/element. Hence, when I have shown it to discord users before, they have 0 interest in using it because for them it is like reverting to an IRC.

I like cmus best. It is both as simple and as complicated as I need it to be.

Wow, fascinating to see I am one of the Few Debian users. It works great on the distribution, even better than what I had heard about other platforms.

Yea, I have to use windows at work presently and I hate every second of fighting with it.

Windows doesn’t even have a fully functional implementation of focusing windows on hover, a common feature of any Linux system WM I have ever used. There is a setting to do this in Windows accessibility settings, and it’s true, it DOES change focus on hover; but it DOESN’T change the functionality of foreground windows getting pushed behind those windows, making it pretty much pointless, and actually more annoying to use.

Also just the performance is such shit, probably because it’s now designed to be doing hundreds of unnecessary telemetry tasks at all time on the back end. Also what the fuck is with every piece of Windows software configuring itself to run on boot or as a service? So incredibly annoying.