So, I’m gonna be a bit of a contrarian here, but my main advice is to abandon requirements 1 and 3.

As to 2, you’d be looking for an immutable or atomic distro, those are harder to fuck up.

BUT I urge you not to be afraid of the terminal, it isn’t as scary as it looks! Try watching/following along with a couple “linux terminal for beginners” or “bash for beginners” videos on youtube like they’re a class. They’ll teach you the basics you need to be a LOT more comfortable within like an hour, and you’ll be a lot better off for it. I did the same and now a few years in I prefer the terminal for many things and cringe when I have to use the windows GUI at work for something that would take seconds on linux by typing one command that amounts to a sentence. It’s a very powerful and convenient tool and I reccomend not shutting yourself off from it.

No matter the distro, you’re likely not going to fuck it up so bad it can’t be fixed, but do be careful when using sudo in the terminal as that is when it’s more likely. That said, no matter what (even if you stayed on windows), you should keep offsite backups of your most important files, things you couldn’t just redownload again. That way if you do fuck up, you can always just reinstall and replace your files no problem, it’s free! Sure nobody wants to take like an hour to do that, but still nothing gets lost which is the most important part.

As for not requiring a password, no. You want the password checks. Security is important, and what’s more the password checks themselves can act as a “be careful this could fuck your shit up” warning. As annoying as they are, it can be a good thing!

I’m sure you’ll get plenty “try this distro” responses so I’m not even going to go there, but my advice honestly applies to all distros equally.

Tl;dr: Passwords safe, terminal good actually.

I mean, I wouldn’t mind if I could use my flipper for it, but the big issue is “if flipper break get fucked.” I can back up my .kdbx file in 14 luks encrypted locations, I can’t backup a whole ass flipper as easily.

Of course, afaik almost no billionaire’s money is liquid either, it’s in properties and businesses and shit.

Like I’m sure bezos has plenty liquid, but most of his billions is just a valuation of amazon/aws/whatever other shit he owns.

Like, if we wanted to take all his money we’d have to completely liquidate amazon and aws, and his house etc, selling the assets off to whoever can afford it, it’s not just breaking into his Scrooge McDuck vault full gold coins.

Not that it’s impossible, it just seems that many people don’t realize this and think it is just the Scrooge McDuck vault.

Thanks, I’ll try these out!

Hey I have a quick question I haven’t been able to find the answer to regarding nnn, if you don’t mind.

So, I have nnn and the plugins set up as normal, however I need to run some of those plugins as root. If I sudo nnn, my plugins don’t transfer, so I put the plugin files in root’s .config and the line in root’s .bashrc, but I can’t figure out how to do the source ~/.bashrc command part for root’s .bashrc.

If I source /root/.bashrc it says permission denied, if I run it with sudo it says sudo: source: command not found.

You wouldn’t happen to have been down this road before, would you?

Thanks, just gave it a quick checking out, think I’ll quite like it when I figure out how to actually use it lol.

I find sometimes the gui takes a while to manipulate say 300 folders. Like if I want to move all the mp4 files from a folder structure into another directory but leave everything else you can use something like

find /path/to/piracy/directory/ -name '*.mp4' -exec cp -r {} /path/to/piracy/storage/ \;

And it’ll send em on over.

And I didn’t remember that command, I had it in a script, so to find it to post here I just typed:

cat ~/Documents/scripts/scriptname/

And hit enter, and it gave me the info in the file. Tbh it was even easier than that, with tab completion I just had to type:

cat Doc[tab]/sc[tab]/sc[tab]

But back to the piracy, then to delete everything left over from that first script (like .nfo files) just

cd ~/piracy/directory/
rm -r *
exit

And will remove everything instantly.

To make it easier you can make a script with the first command, even chain it with the same for avi etc, and you could probably have it auto clean the source directory afterwards, but I like to do that manually. You can also (in most piracy programs) tell it to run a script on complete, so you could have that all automated by that process (if you don’t store them in an external drive like me.) And you can get way fancier with it too, I’m very much still learning, there’s way more that can be done pretty easily. I do still use the GUI sometimes too though and for some stuff it is easier, it’s definitely not an all or nothing thing, both is better!

Also I’m totally not a pirate that was just an example…cough cough.

I’m open to it, if you had to pick one to try first out of all tui file managers, which would it be and why?

Bonus points for “it makes batch renaming and other file ops way easier!”

Moving files, deleting files, text editing, converting files, stuff like btop, a lot really.

When I started I watched a few “linux cli tutorial” and “bash basics” or “bash for beginners” type videos on youtube and followed along in my terminal like a class, pausing when needed. That’s all it took for me to be off to the races learning more because of just how easy it is to do a lot of stuff, and I still learn more all the time.

Couple tips (really some of this applies regardless of cli or gui):

• Keep offsite back-ups, just in case. Worst case scenario you reinstall and replace your files.

• Be careful with sudo but otherwise you’ll be fine. That’s not to say don’t use sudo just be mindful.

• Learn just the basics at first and then learn more as you go and get more comfortable, I kinda use the unix philosophy for it here and only learn it if I need it, most often.

• You can save semi-commonly used commands to a txt file and reference it later, really helps for stuff you only use every now and again. There’s also the history command and ctrl+r but I still find the file useful.

It really isn’t as hard as it had looked before I started, and I use it constantly now.

I’m sure that’s next on his list lmao.

LOL wearing condoms is copium now? Have fun with your STDs!

Fucking christ NZ can’t even have magnets?!

That sounds like something the british would do.

I mean, I understand where you’re coming from, they absolutely shouldn’t log IPs. BUT, if you’re committing crimes or even doing legal things the government doesn’t like, it would behoove you to put in the absolute bare minimum of OPSEC at least.

Like, some people know they have STDs and don’t warn people and spread them, right? And while the spreader is obviously the problem there, some commonly accepted advice to the victim is “you should have worn a condom anyway.” And they should have worn a condom to protect themselves (and also the spreader should be held liable.)

Like the previous example, anyone using any online service (for secrety things) should know to put a VPN condom on before they put their data inside that sexy, slutty server rack. And like how contraceptives were that knowledge needs to be spread.

Strange, it’s the exact opposite of the experience I’ve had with a “bleeding edge” distro on three different laptops. Well, sucks I guess, idk.

Meanwhile on fedora over ~5yr or so I update at least once a week (or daily when I have home internet, but currently I do not so I bring my laptop to friends’ places and update on theirs every so often) and I’ve had updates break stuff only two or three times, and only once was it that serious. Like once it broke vlc and I just had to use mpv for a day or two until it updated to match and whatever issue was fixed, nbd.

If something breaks every time you update it’s either your hardware and you’ll just always have that until you switch it up (which sucks, so hopefully not) or try a new distro if you’re having that many problems with Mint. “Every time” isn’t a “normal” user experience, it should be an uncommon annoyance, maybe common back in the day, but not anymore.

Well I never said it was, I said that was probably why “warnings.”

Honestly, he probably was looking for drunks, and when you clearly weren’t he just played it off (poorly).

But it won’t include linux drivers

*rimshot*

Screens would get in the way of my many magnets with notes. Not only does it not “need” one, I’m actively anti screen in this case.

No you’re not, I’m in me!

(French joke).