nanook

Linux will run fine with secure boot you just have to have it set for other OS not Windows specifically, however, it is a pain in the ass and if you have physical control over your machine I see no good reason to enable it, it significantly compliciates things like building your own kernels.

If you’re going to install Linux, Dell and IBM are generally very compatible. I’ve got a Dell 1500 series that runs Linux beautifully except the battery has given up the ghost and I need to replace it, also going to swap out the hard drive for an ssd. But Mate runs well on it, even the touch screen features work.

Hasn’t been an issue for me. Perhaps you don’t have your system properly configured?

Control-D gives a hex value of 0x04, where as ENTER or CR gives a hex value of 0x0d,
they are not the same. Control D returns the carriage on old tty machines, on many modern linux platforms it is treated as CRLF, that is carriage return and a linefeed. Control-D indicates end of file or end of transmission.

I’ve had Fedora updates screw up so many times and spent way too many hours fixing mutually conflicting updates that I have really come to loath the OS. I keep a Fedora server running for my customers who are Redrat enthusiasts but Ubuntu is so much better behaved.

I installed 6.14 on servers here and really see a non-trivial boost in efficiency, less CPU sitting in wait state and more executing applications.

Yep, I still use X2go to get a remote graphical display from my machines at the data center while I work on them from home. It also provides sound and remote printing and leverages scp to transfer files.

What do you prefer? Linux allows multiple desktops to be installed. I use Mate primarily but I also have lxde installed as a backup in case something breaks.

Not sure what you’re definition of “powerful” is, but this friendica node, https://friendica.eskimo.com/ runs on an I9-10980xe (18 core / 36 thread) clocked at 4.5Ghz with 256GB of RAM, 29TB of raid 1 disk space (three RAID partitions, two nvme1G raided, and two partitions of two 14TB each raided). It runs great with 6.14 kernels. I was less satisfied with the task switching on earlier kernels, it typically runs with around 1000 processes. I run non-preemptive tickless kernels.

Never cared for Zorin’s inability to update from one release to another in place. Got way too many apps and custom configuration to re-install every time a new release comes out.

I use alpine when I want a text client, Thunderbird when I want graphical.

For what it’s worth, even if you’re sticking to a lts release like 24.04, a 6.14 kernel is a very worthwhile thing to do. I found substantial reduction in load average and CPU time wasted in wait state on my busier servers.

You can always grab from source and compile.

I do use rsync when backing up remote computers, locally I use dump/restore. I prefer it because of the ability to get a directory listing from the backup, pick and choose files or restore the entire file system as necessary.

I’ve been using Mate ever since Gnome-2 transitioned to Gnome-3 and I didn’t like the transition. I like a clean screen with simple menus, Plasma is just way too cluttered for me.

These, after do many decades, are still stupid funny. I can’t help but picture an ugly 13 year old male desperate for companionship but not receiving any.

I’ve got a Dell 1500 series laptop that I’ve been running Ubuntu on for several years. It is thicker than many modern computers but not to thick as to be uncomfortable to carry. The touch screen even works with Ubuntu Mate. It is slow to boot owing to a very slow hard drive but ok once booted, however the battery is sick so I’m getting ready to perform surgery and replace the hard drive with an SSD and replace the battery.

Actually, I have my public facing servers configured to listen to 443 as well. Why? Because many corporate and public space wifi spots like libraries, will block 22, but allow 443 for https, so on my shell servers, I also listen to 443.