By installing drivers do you mean: search the manufacturers website online, navigate through all the scam website to try to find the legit one, dig through the website to find your hardware, download a random executable file, execute it, select next next next, no I don’t want to install mcafee, next, install.
I am using remmina daily for work, it is working well for me.
So far I used SweetHome3D, Onshape and Qelectrotech (for electrical) for the renovation of my house.
However if you are planning to do some heavy renovations in your house I would advise you to get an architect to do a proper blueprint of your house and a blueprint of what your house would look like after renovation.
It’s not necessary, it might feel like it’s extra money up front that you don’t use directly for renovation but in a big project you save so much in the long term. This is what we did and there is so many (expensive) mistakes that we avoided because we had an expert eye at the beginning of the project.
I think Nixos and a nas would for your need.
This is what I’m doing, I have two laptop, one for work at my office and one at home for work/hobbies.
I have a nixos config synced on github with all my of is configuration, package list extensions …Some of the config is specific to each laptop like the part related to the hardware and steam, games stuff only on my home computer. The rest is the config is shared and all my files synced on my NAS.
So whenever I change something on one the change is reflected in the other. I really enjoy this setup and I’m thinking of adding my server in it too.
It’s not just for my home server but for EOL or other issues I used bitwarden emergency access options for passwords. Of anything happens to me my wife can request access to my vault and if I don’t deny it in a certain timeframe she will have full access to it.
I did that after my brother in law got in an accident and fell into a coma. I’m very grateful he had all his password saved in chrome on his unlocked laptop because if not it would have made the period insanely more difficult for my sister.
Simple things like paying the bills would I been insanely more difficult and stressful and you don’t need extra stress in this period.
There is the kiwix hotspot.
A WiFi hotspot that gives you access to the entire Wikipedia, medical information, homesteading books …
I just got fiber and my local ISP gave me a microtik router with openWRT installed on it. I’m quite happy with it
The worst is that it will probably increase profit or a quarter or too while running the brand to the ground.
I agree with Nixos as well. Setting it up properly for the first time can take some time but after that it’s very much “forget it”.
It’s interesting to see how much nixos grew over the last 2 years, even though the distribution exists since 2003.
25 years ago the system was setup as a quick temporary solution.
If I understand well you want to have the same OS, software, configuration and files on different devices.
You could have a look at nixos.
I’m doing something similar, I have a computer in my office for work and a laptop at home for personal use and a bit of work.
I have a config shared between the two computers, they share similar modules but also have their own specificities.
This way when I configure VSCode for example I get the configuration synced on both.
For synching my files I’m using a synology NAS.
Same experience on my Fairphone 5, first crashed the OS when I tried accessing the gallery.
Now it is working but the pictures have like dead pixels on them.
From another article
The GDM724x is removed for supporting the GCT GDM724x LTE chip based USB modem devices. This driver was merged back in 2013 but is being removed now as the driver isn’t being maintained and yields a maintenance workload, the manufacturer GCT doesn’t respond to any emails/support, there doesn’t appear to be any of the said chips easily available for purchase, there is not any hardware documentation available, and no apparent usage of this driver remaining in the Linux community. Removing the driver clears out 3.6k lines of code and lowers the maintenance burden for other kernel developers.
There was also a vulnerability discovered in July linked to this driver.
So yeah I understand that they chose to remove some drivers from the kernel.
I have a synology NAS with all my documents and family photos. I’m using the synology drive app on Linux and synology photo on android.
All of that is backed up on Backblaze
I requested a code snippet and instructions for work, I got an email, with a word document attached.
In the word document there was a screenshot of the code I needed.
It looks like they are still selling almost 7000 copies per week !
I would look into the Surfaces, you can find a cheap second hand one and install Linux on it.
I recently found one of the liveCD I received with Ubuntu 8.04 on it. Canonical was sending them for free for people interested in Linux.
I was in high school and tried it on my first computer, it was my first connect with Linux and honestly I think that without Ubuntu I would not have discovered Linux until much later in life.
Same for me, I stopped distro-hoping 2 years ago when I moved to NixOS.
It was tough at first, setting it up took a while and i genuinely felt stupid like i haven’t felt for a while; but now I love having the same config on my two laptops. I have one that stays at work and another one for traveling. With one word/line added into my config I can as a software, configure the VPN, change the wallpaper on both my laptop, or not. Some stuff like gaming goes only on the traveling laptop.
Also, another big thing for me is the feeling of having a cleanly built system all the time. I haven’t felt the urge to do a clean reinstall since I started with NixOS.