You got some great answers already :)

Let me just add that, in general, it’s expected to have executable files inside your home directory.

For example, ~/.local/bin is intended for user executables and usually added to the $PATH, and a lot of package managers (such as cargo, go, pip,…) will install applications under ~ (Steam also does that).

Why do people think we care why they decided this or that? (same goes for people who switch to linux, or upgrade their gear, or whatever)

What’s crashing? the Linux host? Virtualbox? the windows guest?

(personally I won’t be able to help you, but other people might)

I don’t use that so I’m mostly shooting in the dark, but… does caps:escape_shifted_capslock do what you want?

(source: localectl list-x11-keymap-options | grep esc)

I tried adding backslashes to escape, it still looks fine on lemmy.ml but your app may be bugged (and possibly vulnerable to xss? can you see the script block after the closed bracket?) <script>alert(‘you should not see an alert’)</script>

Ommigod, these kids :)

SVG comes XML (a more coherent/simple version of the SGML that is behind HTML), and specifically from a time where people took XML and made it hyper-complicated with a flurry of extensions and specifications (look up “xml namespaces” “xslt” “xml schema”).

The most apparent difference between SGML and XML is than in the former you write tags like <br> without a corresponding </br>, and in the latter you have to close them like <br/> (which is shorthand for <br></br>).

So… today you learned that what you learned earlier today was close to truth, but not true :)

PS: A lot of document formats are undercover/zipped XML (eg. the libre office documents, IIRC microsoft’s .xlsx and .docx). This is not dissimilar to how json/yaml are widely used today.

Based on a US distro whose versions are supported for 1 year, and “built to the requirements for the EU public sector” (because the EU public sector has one coherent set of requirements and the dev knows them, even if he doesn’t list them out).

This is most probably good-intentioned and it is admirable how the dev sprung into action, but it’s naive at best.

And… what started out as honest advice, ended up being a preventive strike against Internet villains. Very Internet-villain-like, I must say :D

(rightfully) does not like mixed language codebases for projects as large and important as Linux

You make it sound like it’s a matter of taste rather than a technical one (and I suspect it actually might be just about taste in the end)

I stopped at “secret” (yes, the occurrence in the title) :)

TBH the checksums are pretty useless for humans who download an .iso and install it… they are mainly for mirrors and similar that download files without using them

Yank is Copy, you heathen!
Only in inferior software it is Paste.

(for the uninitiated: it’s Copy in vim and Paste in emacs; also if it wasn’t clear, I’m just joking)

1. By and large, distros package the same software so which one you pick is a matter of taste. As a beginner, you won’t have the knowledge to take advantage of documentation/instructions that are not written for your specific distro, so pick one of the more popular ones.

2. No, distro owners won’t be a problem in the same way that Microsoft or Apple are. Don’t worry about that: the moment they do something unsavory (even remotely) their projects will be forked, and switching to a different distro is not that big of a deal anyway.

3. If you like to tinker you will break your system, not because linux is fragile (it is not) but because knowledge of low-level stuff is widespread and the temptation to thinker with it is too great. I recommend you look into system snapshots and how they integrate with boot options (eg. opensuse tumbleweed automatically snapshosts your system when you update it and during boot you can choose to boot into a previous state - surely other distros do the same and, if yours doesn’t, you can set it up yourself).

4. The short answer is “use KDE” :)

5. KDE is great and seems to suit you. The DE you choose matters (IMHO) more that the distro, because once you are familiar with a DE and its shortcuts it’s a pain to switch, and also because once you are used to some feature it’s enormously frustrating to switch to a DE that doesn’t have it :)

From what I hear (I switched to AMD years ago), it’s not hard to make the Nvidia cards work properly, but it’s a recurring hassle and there are lots of things that are more fun to thinker with. Unless specific reasons you need an Nvidia card, I’d suggest selling it off and replacing it with a second-hand AMD/Intel one.

I’m sorry if this sounds rude, especially after not reading what must have taken you a long time to write…

Have you tried writing “distro that looks like macos” into a search engine?

The last name thing is true: outside family and close friends, that’s what people call each other by.

I have no idea what the wiener thing was originally :)

Configure it like the current router and keep it as a backup?

You can run a lot of stuff on it, but those boxes aren’t really that powerful… a cheap, old raspberry pi from ebay (or anything really) will serve you better.

sudo zypper packages --unneded will give you a list of packages that have not been explicitly requested and are not dependencies of explicitly requested packages. As for how to remove them… IDK (I do it manually, once in a blue moon: it’s not like there’s new unneded packages every week).

It’s been a while since I’ve used debian, but IIRC apt autoremove will leave behind config files (unless you specify --purge).

In tumbleweed (and I think all rpm-based distros?) config files are removed per default together with packages (well, the config files installed with the package, not others that may have been created later such as the ones in your \~ - basically zypper rm is the same as apt purge).

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Is it time to remove the pin from this post?

Assuming you are using networkmanager, the first thing would be to check the DNS settings on your home wifi connection (assuming you are using Gnome, it should be inside “Settings” and then “Network” - sorry if that’s wrong, I don’t use Gnome).

If you can’t locate the setting to change, you can try deleting the whole connection and connecting again (as you would to a new wifi network).

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