You could try OpenSUSE, it has Yast2 GTK GUI control panel for everything, no command line needed. Assuming CLI is what you find troublesome.

And GUI package manager

My ARM board from 2010 has 256MB of memory. It runs an old 3.1 kernel (not attached to internet) , new kernels won’t fit/load. But on that I have OpenMediaVault running SAMBA shares and mindlna to serve music. It isn’t even using 50% of the 256MB

We have a 2010 laptop that was useless with Windows. Runs NixOS now. Wife uses it for youtube, zoom calls, email etc. It is super responsive.

Yeah, I meant if you don’t want to do that reseason process…because cast iron gets a bad rap about being high maintenance compared to a nonstick coated pan.

We moved to cast iron a lomg time ago. Season the pan, and it is non stick. Just don’t cook tomatoes in it since the acid takes the coating off. Rinse out, dry it (or heat it again on the stove to dry) and lighty oil if needed.

Best has been cast iron cookie sheet, everything slides off

I had one laptop doing this, the work around was disabling ipv6

I believe they need a free account to collab on a shared proton doc.

The article linked talks mostly about sharing a file or folder. Seems you can share direct via email but they need to sign up for a free account atill.

Normal files have a link generator next to the file or folder so you can generate link, and you can copy the link to anyone for download only purposes

Meanwhile Microsoft; how can we bog down this OS even more?

They are bound by USA sanction law, moving to another NATO country would be same sanctions against Russia

Thats fair. If you ever go back then at cli typing tracker3 will give a list of commands.

Tracker3 status will give you what it is doing or if it is idle, and notes on files that are troublesome.

tracker3 reset with cetain flags will purge and rebuild index.

You can also set filetypes and folders to index, but that is probably eaaier in dconf-editor settings, under org/freedesktop/tracker/mine/files

Easy to force a tracker reset, or enable disable. Or even reinstall. Seems easier than findinf a new DE no?

Also tracker ahould not be using up so much diskIO or CPU like people mention, if it is it is tripping up on a files internal data, and status/logs will show which file(s)

Tracker should not be recrawling everything, unless you delete the index with a tracker3 reset

Once it builds the initial index only new files or changed files should be recrawled for meta data.

The only time I have seen Tracker use cpu was when it got hung up on a file that had special code in it that was messing with parsing the data and so it would fail and retry over and over.

I play these on repeat occasionally.

Pacific by 808state https://youtu.be/DHBTooSE2Ss

Rong by Ryoksopp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1CXWVAIf1k

When I was on reddit the ones spouting the most linux hate seemed to fall into two main categories.

1. those that tried it like 15 years ago and still hold a grudge.

2. dudes who heard people rave about linux but they themselves struggled with certain concepts when trying it out. And rather than realize they need to read instructions and learn new things, instead would rather blame linux for not working as expected.

There is a guy that is a Linux dev, that maintains* a list of what sucks about linux, its very comprehensive–but a bit dated. He alao has same for Windows. I will have to look for the link

What broke with tracker3 ?

It doesn’t really matter because there is not much content to train AI on in a worthwhile manner. The huge amount of content is mostly hostile retorts, and sarcastic meme banter. AI will be a mess after training on that

You might want to try Bazzite if gaming is a major requirement.

Pixel phone, and install GrapheneOS

I agree it might be better elsewhere. (Like how my preference is Protonmail being hosted by a neutral country based company) But so I don’t mislead, my encryption example was generic, not specific to linux kernel…however any novel encryption does have to be noted to NSA and other organizarions in the USA. Canada has something similar but it appeared less strigent, and adjustments have been made between the bordering countries. I personally diaagree that encryption should have government hand in it, it solves nothing. A foreign state actor wanting to send encrypted communications to overthrow another entity isn’t going to follow software laws anyway.