Trent
I usually go with Xfce.
Ah yes, the update nobody actually wants…
Nah, I’m good. I’m fine with services being limited to what information they can convince my browser to give them, rather than what they can convince my phone to give them. Or try and convince me to give them permission to access.
Probably depends how you define things. Like, is Xubuntu Xubuntu or Ubuntu with Xfce included by default? How much change is necessary before it’s not “debian with added bits”?
It apparently doesn’t like me using a VPN. 🤷♂️
Compiling code converts it from human readable source code into optimized machine code which the processor understands how to execute. For a lot of software you can just unpack the source code, run ./configure, run ‘make’, and then ‘make install’. This can vary a lot and is a simplified explanation, but it’s a start…
I like it. Everyone these days seems to want web pages that are 5MB of dynamically generated junk.
My little website is just static hugo-generated stuff.
Your unsourced claims seem completely legit and have absolutely convinced me…
My take: I don’t recommend distros like mint because they’re windows-y, I do it because they’re good ‘shit just works’ starting points and Linux newbies probably don’t need to be spending 2 hours figuring out why audio doesn’t work or whatever. Once they get their feet under them and learn their way around a shell, etc then they can start playing around with other distros if they like.