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It works ? I mean what necessary functionality is it missing ? Magnet link goes in, files come out, happy face.

Generally most people get recommended to start their Linux journey with Mint as it is noob friendly (while still having full functionality) other options to consider would be popOS Ubuntu & Fedora.

qBittorrent is the most recommended I’ve seen, although I use transmission.

Given the TOR part is kinda the point of tails you may wish to expand on what exactly a “tails like live os without tor” looks like.

The standard Mint iso will boot into a live session with no persistence, click on network icon to join tge wifi and away you go. You can setup a script to install stuff that isnt on the stock build (pretty sure firefox is there but a vpn config for example).

Without a use case description that sounds like what you’re asking for.

I’m sure the other distros that offer live usbs will be the same.

If timeshift is not already installed, please do. Do a snapshot before you update and set the settings to auto delete / keep only a certain number (or do it manually) so you don’t fill your hard drive. I usually keep 1 monthly, 3 weekly and 3 dailies on a rolling basis

If you do the snapshot religiously then when an update breaks it you can just boot a liveUSB and restore (mint iso is a live USB and has it already installed).

You do of course then need to work out what broke and why once you’ve rolled back to the prior working state

Sorry, proof of concept, i was being lazy

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While KDE plasma can be made to work on Mint (I’ve done it as a PoC) it is NOT something a beginner should be doing because a) it’s an unsupported config and b) you need to pull in non mint repositories to get the plasma files, and then you’ll be fiddling around to get it working again when an update breaks something.

If Mint has been troublesome then popOS ubuntu and Fedora would be better choices.

Yeah illegal stuff and Singapore should never be in the same sentence.

Either move the VPS to being hosted somewhere with no interest in enforcing copyright law (Africa, South America, some parts of Asia like Cambodia, Kazakhstan etc) or put a VPN on the VPS so your IP shows as being somewhere less regulated than SGP

Try using OBS for the screen capture, it should work with hardware acceleration on. Install on yr existing windows system.

If not try downloading a linux mint iso and burning that to a usb (instructions on the mint homepage). It’s a “live” boot you can just boot off it and try without installing. I’m fairly sure you can boot it, install OBS on it and then test a screen capture (ie open a browser, start prime, open obs and start a screen capture). Be aware you’ve made a bottleneck on the USB (slow throughput compared to ssd) so you won’t go long before it chokes through not being able to write fast enough. Proof of concept.

However if it works then look at installing a dual boot mint next to windows a full install will use the hard drive and not bottleneck

Basically, it’s free and it won’t break anything to try the live disk. If it works it’ll be a lot cheaper than buying a whole extra Mac

Timeshift for configs to a locally attached drive. Home partition to cloud with rsync

First sentence of the article

“new default Cinnamon theme coming to Linux Mint 22.1 later this year.”

Context for those who are baffled (I was)

https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/

No Linus hasn’t grabbed a red rag and isn’t off to foment revolution