Did you just assume my distro?

For the record, I use Debian

People still use Ubuntu?

It’s not that easy, Google heavily dictates the development goals of Android. It’s basically developed behind closed doors, and then the source is dumped to the public after each release. Still better than iOS, but nothing like regular Linux distros

If you manage to do it, please report what happens. I expect a lot of weird things, at the very least

ncdu: shows how much disk space is used by each directory, can also explore subdirectories and delete files

tig: interactive terminal UI for git with lots of functionality

This could also be done to the RAM filling up and/or high I/O activity of the disk. I suggest to investigate these possibilies as well

Microsoft: we don’t do that here

A WM crash does not bring down all the other applications… but an X11 server crash definitely does!

In wayland they are the same program (a.k.a. the compositor). User applications can be designed to survive a compositor crash, though many are not able yet

Pen and paper first

And that’s the beauty of it. Figuring it all out, until “hey wow, it finally worked”

As others have said, only word documents may give you annoyances.

I’d suggest trying it in a virtual machine first. See if you can do what you want to do. Switch to different distros if you need to. If/when you’re convinced, make a proper installation.

I use syncthing to mirror to a raspberry pi NAS. Set it and forget it

Point them to the same file, and overwrite the file each time.

(Unless one of them caches the content somewhere else)

Have you considered a shared folder with Syncthing?

Bugtober?

True, but on the other hand, phone screens used to be 16:9 and have larger borders around them. A 21:9 6" phone of today is roughly the same physical size as a 5" phone of 5 years ago.

It’s also true that phone are actually getting bigger and bigger by the year, and I don’t really like that

Welcome to the club! My advice is, after you’re done with the installation, make a bootable external device with a live distro (e.g. a USB stick) and keep it around. Now, if your main system ever gets messed up and can’t boot anymore, you can boot the live one and start troubleshooting.

Don’t be scared by this suggestion: getting an unbootable system is not so common, but if it happens you’ll be glad you have something ready to work on it

Also .jar files. And good ol’ winamp skins. And CBZ comics. And EPUB books. And Mozilla extensions. And APK apps. And…

Stop! Don’t give them ideas!

God, you made me remember the times when the laptop would automatically wake up from standby in the middle of the night!!! Like, seriously???

(It was the company’s pc, so I couldn’t just wipe it clean and put linux on it. But eventually I learned how to disable the wake timers so it stopped happening)