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I’ve been using Debian since 1.3. Haven’t really ever needed anything else.
I did “experiment” a bit when the decision to go with systemd was taken, but in the end, most distros went with it and it really isn’t that big deal for me.

So it’s just Debian. I need a computer that works.

Ah ok, well LUKS in that case I guess

gpg-zip maybe?
https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/gpg_002dzip.html

Because the more market share leads to better hardware and driver support

The Gnome devs say you don’t need a mascot.

I need Linux for my work, so it’s not really possible to switch.
I do keep a Windows machine for gaming at home though.

Right tool for the job and so on…

I see, I was wondering why a IT-Security workers were suddenly being called edgy kids. lol.

Yea, I know its the edgy kid distro

Huh?

Huge if true.

Sometimes customers want me to use a specific piece of software so I have a QEMU Windows installation I use.

Chat Control is a huge privacy problem.
But a threat to free software? Nah.

But the coming Cyber Resilience Act might be
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/eus-proposed-cyber-resilience-act-raises-concerns-open-source-and-cybersecurity

I’m also nervous about using an OS I’m not familiar with for business purposes right away.

Keep using what gets the job done. That’s what computers are for. Do not switch to Linux.

I’ve been daily driving Linux since Debian 1.3 in -97.
There’s certainly been tough times with some printers in the past, to be honest I haven’t thought about device/software compatibility in years.
Everything (I need) just works.

I guess that would be running sudo rm -rf /bin (yeah, it was supposed to be “~/bin” without the sudo… idk, my fingers have a life of their own) on a machine that was in a datacenter on the other side of the globe.

It was a long and sweaty night.

I can’t figure out how to setup flatpak. Everything seems to be working fine until I enter the last line in the terminal:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Hard to help without logs or error messages. Maybe you could run the command with --verbose flag to see if it prints out something that might help?

I somehow set it up so that my username is not the super user, so I have to type a password in the terminal every time I want to use sudo. Is there a way to fix this without a clean install?

This is default behavior and probably shouldn’t be changed. It’s a good idea to set up your normal user without root privileges and it’s a good idea to ask for authentication credentials whenever you need to elevate privileges.

If you really want to remove the password, you can follow the guide here: https://linuxhandbook.com/sudo-without-password/

I somehow set up the hard drive partitions so that the OS is on an encrypted partition, so I have to put in a password for the BIOS to boot up. Is there a way to fix this without a clean install?

Again, if you want encrypted disk, then this is actually good behavior, but in case you want to decrypt the disk without reinstall - it’s possible, but not entirely simple or newbie friendly procedure, you need to know a bit about disk devices and mounting drives, for reference, see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60971/how-to-remove-luks-encryption

I’m used to a desktop interface with a toolbar/start menu that I can pin frequently-used programs to, but with Debian it seems like I need to click “Activities” to do anything. Is there a way to set up the interface so it’s more like Windows in that regard?

Debian comes with Gnome Desktop by default. There are many other desktop environments, if you want to test them. See: https://wiki.debian.org/DesktopEnvironment

You can also tweak and change Gnome with addons and extensions to suit your needs - see https://extensions.gnome.org/

Is there any reason why I should stick with Debian? I’ve heard some people trashing Ubuntu but I’m not sure why. Is Debian better for older hardware?

The same linux kernel (in various versions) is running underneath all the distributions, so it’s really just a matter of preference. Since you’re new, hop around - try Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!, Fedora, Arch and everything else to see what you prefer.

Have fun!

Preferably by sending signals over serial port and couple of wires.

I normally design and create my own fonts before I start a new document or open console.
I use Arch Linux, btw.

Just have to remember which repos are “managed” and which are not. Installing stuff from PyPi or NPM might actually require you to read through quite a lot of code before installing. I don’t think most people are that diligent.

Yeah. I guess that depends on your use case, but I do quite a lot “sewage plumbing” (malware analysis) so it’s nice to have that extra layer just in case I fuck up.

I’ve been using ESET for a long time, but I don’t actually know what it costs, I get licenses from my company. Might not be suitable price range for home use.