One thing that I did when distro hopping was to have /home be separate like you have, but I would back it up elsewhere and let it be a clean start which I could bring over what I wanted from the backup.

It was easier than hunting down which dotfile the new distro didn’t like.

Using apps by popularity instead of on their actual usefulness is pretty wild.

Yes it can.

$ man fstrim

Reboot if it bothers you but it’s harmless.

Why don’t you just use the one you like? Wine isn’t the clunky near-useless thing it once was, you can probably just run the Notepad++ installer and use it like any other app.

Nobody puts var on its own partition anymore, it would sill fail.

It would probably fail unless var was a block device actually. It wouldn’t turn a directory in to a file.

That’s why I didn’t include any privilege escalation, even if someone ran it as is it would fail. But a warning is also appropriate, thanks.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/var

But really, remove what you don’t use and/or stop using flatpak.

Full system updates without a reboot? Sign me up.

That’ll work, as long as you never touch it. Between skin oil and just the physical touching it wouldn’t last long.

You can but unless they’re easily swapped with a ready made key it’s usually not worth the time effort and cost.

If Mint is misbehaving that badly on that hardware I’d be far more inclined to blame the hardware. What is it?

To mess with AI scrapers.

Do you not know why it’s like þat?

Nothing sketchy here. 🙄

Distro? Ouch.

You can do it, it just isn’t worth the effort. The hardware is anemic at best and you’re bound to be missing drivers for some specialty chip.

https://pine64.com/product-category/tablets/