Client-side decorations. In most DEs and WMs, the compositor or the shell is responsible for the window border, Close button etc. On GNOME, the client (application) is expected to do all of that. There is a mechanism for a WM to request an app whether to draw CSD, and for the app to request SSD, but they don’t need to be implemented.

As a member of Hack Club, I can’t really believe that Hackatime is really slop-free…

Btrbk if you use the right filesystem.

It should be fine, as long as you’re not using one of these ancient bootloaders.

The volume recovery key for Linux is the LUKS key, yes. You should have that stored somewhere, you can’t view it iirc. The volume key for Windows is the BitLocker Recovery Key. If you’ve signed in with a Microsoft account, it’s stored in the cloud, otherwise you should have that printed out, too.

Not Linux, and of course the perfect OS.

You should try it, to get a taste of what is possible, then learn what to do, and maybe even stay. But it’s not for beginners, the terminal-phobic, or people that rarely use their PC.

It doesn’t need fiddling, but it invites you to do so. And the default setup is hardly a best practice: swap on a partition, no FDE, no zram… missing FDE in particular will require you to reinstall, and you better have found out how to do proper backups including metadata.

Arch

nix flake update --commit-lock-file && nh os switch

Distros are a matter of taste, and you shouldn‘t judge someone over it. But a bit of friendly fun-poking is alright (e.g. „NixOS user spend all night configuring their PC“). Insults directed directly at a person are never OK. And there are of course distros that are objectively bad (like Ubuntu), and you can criticize their creators, and maybe try to convince the users to choose something else (that‘s where Mint is from, kind of), but you cannot. hate. on. them.

1. Create your own Codeberg repo for your configuration
2. Use Neovim, maybe with Nixvim

I have them at home and as such don‘t need to spend money on them.

why?

/128

LTT did another Linux challenge recently, and this time their verdict was that they‘d all be staying on Linux for their personal PCs (with FakeLinus dual booting Windows, because he needs software there for his job). They did also say that most of their videos will still show Windows, as that is still the primary target of the manufacturers that send them the press kits.

I personally use a TPM with Measured Boot (so it doesn‘t give the key to external disks), and have a YubiKey and password as fallback options.

“Run Level 2 because Level 1 is not permitted to fix anything.” “You don’t want to run Level 4”

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite#Issues)

It stores one of the keys to my LUKS volume.

I don’t think so, or why would it happen to be sorted exactly by length? And systemd-vconsole-setup.service definitely starts before NetworkManager-wait-online.service…