Ub(loa)tu tries to cater to everyone whilst ending up in pleasing no one – it has too much unnecessary clutter.

bemenu. Type stuff in popup, press enter, no confettis thrown on your face.

In a nutshell,

• Use wireshark

• See if theres any weird connections going on (i.e you visit pancakes.com and wireshark shows unrelatedsite.com making a request as well)

• Block unrelatedsite.com

“What about firewalls?”

Block from ports 1000 'till the very end (65565 if I’m not mistaken.) – that is your “bread and butter” approach.

“W-what if I’m using a port past 1000?”

Nah, you (very likely) aren’t and never will.

Have you tried calling your neighbor out and asking him? “Hey! Can I take your shelf?”. Takes like three seconds to sort this out.

It can be (pretty much) any distro you want – just make a minimal install, install the stuff you want, pull config files from your github and throw em in $HOME, that’s it.

Git hype for Crysis running on the rpi 5!

Docker, hands down. “Containerize” all things!..

…like I did. :^)

cal

Not that relevant to your post, but I’v been avoiding DE’s altogether since the very first day I knew they weren’t required to have a proper distro.

Nah, they are doing you a favor.

I always do minimal installs, so eh… guess that is a “Yes and no” for me.

Looks like we are about to see Crysis running “almost natively” on a rpi 5!

…eh?

By telling users to change their mindset, by showing em how control is important and how the “just werks” mentality imposed by Microsoft is more detrimental than anything.

So you are saying that dumbs can’t read? Because hey, that is all it takes to troubleshoot a problem on linux.

Thus, even your grandmother can “do google” nowadays.

If you mean “dumb friendly” by “An exact Windows clone”… there are plenty of “Windowslike” Linux distros out there.

If you mean “user friendly” by “Easy to understand by any user”… then yes, (any) Linux distro is user friendly as is.

Nano is my “daily drive”, but I’d use vim as well – takes a couple seconds to search for “how to type in linux vim” and “how to save a file in linux vim” anyways. :^)

YEAH CRUISE CONTROL BABY

I go with the “quotation case”, “Cool file name”.

• foot
• wget
• lynx

also * ffplay and * yt-dlp.

Everything is complicated if you aren’t willing to commit/learn.