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Obviously! Look at the current world leaders. We might as well try the dolphins.

The U.S. version certainly does.

Good point! Thanks for pointing that out.

But the things doing the testing could be bots instead of human actors, so it may very well be that no human does in fact know.

That is the real dead Internet theory: everything from production to malicious actors to end users are all ai scripts wasting electricity and hardware resources for the benefit of no human.

I’ve got mine set up to run somewhat like OS X, since I like the top bar and the disappearing dock. Modern Plasma is very customizable and easy to customize.

And make sure you save any important data on the Linux partitions, don’t just assume that /home or /sys will be there after the resize.

This is a good question. On your home network, that’s pretty easy. On other networks, setting up a VPN that tunnels to your network seems like it should work.

I’ll bet one of the exceptions is having a bunch of money.

That’s true. Let the largest BGP routers go down for 5 minutes and any demands the people who run them have would be met.

Reboot and see if it still happens. If it does, is it always the same characters that are missing?

A quick search for “Linux missing characters” says it could be the font that you’re using.

I would try in the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F3 or F1 or F2 depending on the distro), and then a live iso, then a live version of Windows or the Windows installer.

That was an interesting story. Thank you for posting it!

That sounds more like Gentoo. With Arch, you at least get the foundation with plumbing and electrical run to the site.

For my public-facing server, I use Debian Testing, since I haven’t had any major issues with it’s stability. Auto-upgrades usually work , although there were a few times I had to manually intervene on the latest name-change upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie. I usually don’t even log-in except every few months.

At home, where it will only affect me, and possibly my family dealing with me, if the whole O. S. crashes and has to be rebuilt from backups, I use Arch.