you’ll become comfortable with the cli, it’s seriously not hard.

all you need to know to start is:

• ls (list files)
• cd (change directory)
• nano (edit text file)

then you can branch out from there

I thought Lynx used headless Firefox as the backend? isn’t the old one Links?

how many ports do you need? if it’s below 1000 I’d just permanently open an unused port range and make the applications use those ports

if nothing is listening on those ports then it wouldn’t be a security problem at all

you’re trying to start a flame war on your first post? are you engagement farming? nice attempt ig

tbf linux does have more sensible security defaults so having to enter more passwords is kinda true

on windows, the default user is passwordless admin by default so they just click one button to “authorise” whatever needs admin privileges (e.g. installing programs to windows equivalent of /usr/bin )

most Linux distributions I’ve used (except maybe raspbian) requires the user’s password for running shit as superuser

you CAN change the behaviour in /etc/sudoers if you really care though

debian’s cdn is crazy fast, the default apt setup in debian 13 chooses mirrors dynamically and it’s really good

generally TLP can do all of the above, so what I do is use powertop and tlp-stat for checking the current configuration, and tlp.conf for setting the configuration

This is a very advanced use case. Be warned.

Let’s first talk about the software you need. This determines the hardware you need to run it.

For the windows VM you need a few things:

• graphics accelerator (GPU)
• virtual display
• input devices
• audio output

To get the GPU, you probably want to pass through a GPU into the VM with iommu. When doing this, you still want your host OS (linux) to have a GPU as well, so you’ll need 2. Use the integrated one for linux, and the dedicated for windows. Make sure that the laptop display is connected internally to the integrated GPU, not dedicated. Otherwise your linux environment would be uninteractable.

Not sure if you can then use the dedicated GPU on linux when the VM isn’t running or not though. You can look this up probably.

Then, for the virtual display and input device, you want to use Looking Glass. It requires you to have a hardware GPU on both the VM and the host, but it allows you to have a latency free interface to the VM. It’s fucking great.

Audio really depends on your situation. If your motherboard’s builtin audio card is in the same IOMMU group as your dGPU, you’re fucked and you’ll need a USB DAC. That shouldn’t be the case though, it’s usually in your iGPU’s group.

Now for the hardware. From the above, you’ll need:

• 2 GPUs (1 for linux, 1 for windows)
• Mainboard firmware that supports IOMMU
• Audio NOT in the same IOMMU group as the windows GPU
• AMD/Intel GPU for linux, NVIDIA for windows as recommended by Looking Glass. I’ve personally had success with Intel for windows as well though.
• Your display must be connected to the linux GPU.

I’ve heard nvidia power management is a shitshow for laptops, I know someone that couldn’t get rtd3 power management to work on their 3000 series laptop gpu. that was on arch though, im not sure if Ubuntu has something set up already to handle that

purism librem 5 seems to have everything working https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Purism_Librem5_(purism-librem5)

shit they exist?? tysm!

how did you configure it? iirc vgpus in Linux are pretty bad, virgl is pretty good but it doesn’t have a guest driver for windows

or you can model functional mechanical parts with blender like some masochist (definitely not me)

wireless cards are really cheap on aliexpress and the ones I’ve bought have been actual genuine parts. I recommend getting something like a Intel AX210 for normal use, or a card supported by ath9k if you want to mess around with wifi stuff

I would personally buy a new ssd for Linux, and keep the original windows drive somewhere else for safe keeping. That’s what I did when I migrated

However, you can transfer the entire ssd content including files, partitions, boot stuff to another disk (e.g. your hdd) as long as that hdd is bigger than or the same size as your ssd. have a look at clonezilla for this. You can then read this hard drive’s contents from the new Linux install to copy over files you want.

debian’s netinstaller is great

have you actually tried it? trying mint after using arch for a year (btw), it’s actually really well made and the consistency is crazy good. The UI looks and feels better in person than in screenshots

yeeah I personally wouldn’t trust something that is"probably" e2ee, especially when there are options that are provably e2ee

to each their own ig

can you verify that it’s E2E encrypted?

that’s mainly because of Wayland’s security model I think, it’s trading a tiny bit of convenience for lots more security in terms of things like preventing easy keylogging.

You can still do keylogging in wayland but that has to be done at the compositor or evdev layer, which requires root access or control of the DE, which makes it more secure. I’m sure you could write something in C to do this though

It might be an annoyance for you and I get that, but your small annoyance improves security for lots more people than you realise. I’m sure you can adapt to not using the script though (I also use multiple layouts and I work fine without a script like this)