Clearly the dark mode is the modern one! Jokes aside, I just realized that there THREE menu options on that toolbar: hamburger, kebab, and waffle! I realize they do different things, but no wonder people are confused by and scared of computers. Also, now I’m hungry!

Are you trying the terminal commands with sudo? You could also try logging in as root user with the password you used during setup.

Yes, Gitea is a hard-fork of Gogs and started years ago. Forgejo is a soft-fork of Gitea when the primary authors of Gitea created a company of the same name to provide paid support (there’s history there you can look up) but Gitea remains free and open source. Forgejo, supported by Codeberg, is a community fork and will upstream to Gitea.

Gitea/Forgejo is a great option, they recently even added build actions which are compatible with Github Actions.

It’s still a good thing. It’s an open specification, so anyone creating a design that is compliant can use software targeted at RISC-V. Just like you can buy USB-C flash drive from any manufacturer and use it with any OS that supports USB mass storage!

You can get the Tailscale apk from F-droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.tailscale.ipn/

Racknerd.com has their Black Friday deals page still active and I’ve had good experience with their shared hosting and support!

I would recommend Tailscale for connecting to the home network. You could run it on each box if running it on the router is wonky.

Just to clarify the entire Logseq app is open source including the sync mechanism, the server backend to receive the sync endpoint and store the data isn’t. I use Syncthing (FOSS and cross platform) to sync noted between my devices.

The comments here have been the most measured and useful about this topic, glad you got great information that others can benefit from now.

I would recommend looking into Syncthing. I use it on all my devices and share specific folders between devices (notes mostly) and all folders back to the server. The server then backs all that up offsite as well.

Thanks for the pointers, those will be a good reference. Now I just need to get started with a beginner how to!

I’d like to try Wayland + Sway. Do you have any recommendations for a starting config?

While this is a valid advice normally, OP has already tried this with Linux on a netbook and a dual boot chromebook. Since OP wants to do AV stuff it’s probably going to be a lot better experience with a desktop (assuming more capable than laptop) and monitor(s). Going another laptop route might be fine for learning but OP wants to switch and that’s not going to happen unless it’s on OP’s main rig.

My advice would be leave the windows installation alone and add a new drive (SSDs are pretty cheap these days) and install Linux on that. Use the BIOS to set the default drive to the new Linux drive and install and use Linux. You’ll have your windows install exactly how it is when you want to go back and just pick that as the boot device from the boot menu. Making Linux the default boot drive also helps with habit forming.

I’m partial to Pop!_OS and their desktop environment.

VirtualBox is free and open source, the windows guest additions piece is not. However, they’re both available for free download from the same site and they do not make any distinction between those two (at least at the time, haven’t looked). They were waiting for companies to download the guest additions piece and going after them to shake down licensing fees. While I don’t recall/know exactly, it seemed like they were almost exclusively going after companies they already had commercial relationships with to add more licensing fees to existing contracts. So yes, from my perspective they were shaking down customers after trying to entrap them with ambiguous free downloads. They had the legal right to do so, but it felt in bad faith.

Is plasma more lightweight than gnome?

Oh wow, I had blocked out the virtual box guest additions debacle/shake-down from my memory. It almost felt like entrapment, the way they went about it.

The file browser looks like windows. But the top bar is very Mac like, maybe if you put a start menu it would help. But to get a windows feel, you’ll need the start menu, application window bars, and the status info all at the bottom (default windows).

Cinnamon is a much more Windows look and feel DE.

After reading that post and the linked github issues, with the latest updates and comments from the last 24 hours. Here’s the TL;DR:

• This is only relevant if you want to use an email client with Proton Bridge.
• If you’re just using Proton for encryption and signing (you can use the same PGP outside of proton too) then there is no issue at all.
• If you want an external tool (like a hardware yubikey) to decrypt your messages that someone else has sent to you using the public key that corresponds to the external tool there will be signature validation shenanigans. This is because Proton expects to be the only entity doing any encryption.This is an important issue for those that need to send encrypted emails (and signatures) with specific keys.
• It is not an issue for anyone using Proton email for a secure email service even if they want to use an external email client on desktop (like Thunderbird) with Proton Bridge.

Please correct me if I missed something.

CC: @[email protected]

Right? The zip ties even have trimmed tails!