propter_hog [none/use name]

Microsoft has a whole Linux division now, lol. They’re fully in the “extend” portion of their plan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Cinnamon is a dope desktop manager, too, good choices all around.

OP is an average enjoyer

Print out the install guide on paper and have it with you while you go. If you fuck up networking, you’ll have the directions there to get it back.

Yeah, that’s the same crossroads I’m at. Currently using Proton Pass, and I like it, but it’s inherently closed. Security by obscurity is kind of their m.o.

Side note: how do you like running vaultwarden? Was thinking about using it.

openSUSE is the GOAT for several reasons, but by far my favorite reason is Zypper.

I’d be down to clown with a rust-based de.

Well, I am confident it would run on my machine, but how would it do in reporting machine compliance? Because that’s the part I can’t get past.

It’s a Cisco AnyConnect doodad, but it checks your computer for compliance first before allowing you to connect, so beyond spoofing a valid system, I’m out of luck. And I’m not about to lose my job due to spoofing a windows box, haha.

I don’t necessarily miss it, but the primary reason I can’t use Linux as a daily driver at work is because our VPN doesn’t work on Linux. So I’d say that. Stupid as fuck that our IT department uses Linux for all of our servers but makes us run Windows.

There are websites like https://www.firsttimersonly.com/ that will help you in getting started

A few on this machine, mostly the usual “plug-n-play” suspects: openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mint, etc. I’ve narrowed it down to needing a specific driver which will have to be installed after the install, but I don’t have an extra thumb drive for it since the one external drive I do have will have the os on it, and I just haven’t been arsed to make it work on a single drive by modifying the partition to add a second one and put the driver there. It’s just a pain in the ass.

Yeah, mine was a pain in the ass. Haven’t sorted it yet. Must be a different chip set.

What did you do to get the keyboard and mouse to work?