Arch Being cult like is stereotypical. Far from reality.

Rhel and Fedora are separate entities and work on their own, but they do influence each other.

Keeping OpenBDSM alive 😆

Be mindful to not set the H200 to passtrough mode. You need to flash the IT firmware to it for it to work properly.

Old kernel = old drivers. Its that simple… Things might work on a basic level sure. Drivers baked in to the kernel and when you use a damn old version of it you get old drivers and old hardware support.

Debian is so old it doesn’t work on very modern hardware… So what your talking about?

Also Ubuntu is not a “server” option. They do have a server option yes. It is the most used desktop or at least was.

Also I used arch for ca 2 years not once needed to use a backup. Even though I abused the hell out of it.

Most major distros are fairly secure by default without things breaking (arch is a exception there, As you got to set that up your self).

If you want to go extreme their is Qubes OS. But you can not swap that across systems like you might want do.

Dont be scared of a terminal. It is your friend 😁

If you can I always prefer a M.2 instead of a SD card for the OS. I have burned true so many SD cards in the past. caching and updates to the OS can break the SD card eventually.

Actually fairly simple to do. Get a large USB then use that as the target for the install you boot from a second USB. Now you got a full Linux install on a USB

Ahh I see yes that’s better.

Which is a bad thing if your user is in the sudoers or wheel group

Suggesting NixOS to a completely new user is stupid. NixOS is cool but very different from almost all Linux distros. Comes with its own language you have to learn as well.

Thing is. Mint is for the most part a just works distro. Based on Ubuntu it is very easy to find help for it. Combine that with a load of sane defaults like disabling snaps. The default UI and theme could defiantly use a facelift

Yes please help i2p grow. It is better in many ways and just lacks content for the most part.

For music. I use navidrome. It works a load better then jellyfin for this IMO. You can use the same file location for both jellyfin and navidrome if needed.

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It not only hurts tor because it usage up bandwith but in other ways as well. Torrenting makes many peer to peer connections which hurts tor in multiple ways. I suggest reading the docs of tor to better understand how and why this is.

I dont understand your question about I2P. You need some form of I2P router to use I2P in anyway.

Torrenting on Tor actually hurts the network. Compare that to I2P where it makes the network better. I2P is designed with torrenting in mind.

Sounds like you are a data hoarder haha. Can’t blame you. But for such hobby’s perhaps a ZFS system with deduplication and a second ZFS system to use for backup of the first system is what you want.

Does get costly though.