If you want it that way, but then I’d have a mix of synced folder and regular folders inside Documents.

I like to keep if completely separate, for backing up user documents via dejadup differently than the synced stuff.

Hardware folder (synced via sync thing). All hardware PDFs, notes images etc get subfolders by manufacturer. It is helpful for keeping track of use manuals, firmware or config settings for each piece of hardware.

Not sure about the distro being used, opensuse makes a docker zone to put docker interfaces on, those have their own ports and rules separate then the Ethernet assigned zone ports/services to allow. For me I had the opposite issue, I couldn’t reach my docker containers from my lan, onky from the local machine because the Ethernet was on an internal zone and Docker was on its own zone. I’m not a superskilled networker dude so I just turned on forwarding and masquerade so the incoming LAN zone would forward to doocker zone and pretend to be the local machine connecting and not a LAN or remote IP. I guess if you moved your dockers too the public zone you could get in trouble

Could be signing, if removing secure boot changed behaviour. The proprietary nvidia kernal module needs you to enroll the key in MOK interface at boot after an install or some updates.

You should have gotten a blue screen at boot that said options like, continue or enroll MOK, delete MOK, cancel, etc.

Hardware raid is fine as long as you can still get the same hardware RAID card or Motherboard.

With OpenSUSE are you using the open source nvidia driver, or did you add the nvidia hosted repo and install their proprietary drivers?

The nvidia owned repo did work better for me.

But could be memory leak.

For anyone with laptop, and onboard graphics and nvidia RTX I had to install an opensuse swicher package to ensure appa start on the right GPU (right click option on the app) I forget the app name at the moment, it wanst the bumblebee or optimus, it was something else, Switcheroo maybe.

Yep, it is helpful for corporate applications, where nothing can introduce possible behavioural changes, that affect users, program function or the application development.

Stable will still get security patches and bug updates, just no new major kernel jumps or new features.

Wireguard between you and remote device like a pi. Set pi to portfowarding and masquerading on. It will then let you be on say a 10.x.x x network remotely but will send info on the remote LAN like it came from that pi local IP

Is your system writing logs?

Binary blobs

Binary blobs

It is very expensive, so ideally join a uni or school program that has acedemic licenses.

FreeCAD is a step below the AutoCAD suite. On shape is comparable for mechanical design. Siemens NX is top tier only matched in high end functions by CATIA. NX and CATIA dominate in Automotive, and Aerospace.

They have better marketing and establishing user benefit, their next project is GRID which is supposed to be for an IT admin to mass deploy software,patches and policies from a dashboard, like you do with Windows. So they will gain credit with IT pros

It is Ubuntu with some attention to the UI and UX, and just like Ubuntu the “pro” version has a price. Which you pay a premium to have things preinstalled.

The Zorin prices are donations to help pay the distro maintainers. You can choose 0 dollars, or atleast you used to be able to

That’s the fun and terrible part about Linux, too many choices :)

Depends what he’s looking for. I think Onshape (browser based CAD) has a free version. Your data is public though unless you go with a paid version.

If he wants a free Linux CAD there is FreeCAD and a few others.

If he is attending a university, as some retirees do to audit courses or enrich life, then Siemens NX (what GM, Stellantis, SpaceX, etc use) have an academic license for around $100 a year. It is now Windows only based, unless you run Linux headless version, but if you use any version NX12 or below there is a GUI LInux version that runs on REL or SUSE (or openSUSE since it shares SUSE binaries)

It’s one of the reasons my distro hopping kept bringing me back to OpenSUSE. GUI system apps, and a failsafe revert with snapper rollback if you tinker too much and break stuff.

:) since your are starting all over, what about ZFS?