By paying money I meant specifically the hardware keys, of which I would also need at least two, just for backup/availability reasons.
Yes, if I lose my phone and my passords are all just on there, I am in trouble, but I currently don’t handle it that way.
But if a service relies on specifically my phone (or any other single device) as a factor and it breaks or gets lost, I’m potentially in trouble and I don’t like that.
Until you lose your cellphone or hardware key, that is.
Also, I will not pay any money for a thing just to authenticate myself with.
What’s the point of such deception? As long as they’re able to recognise it as a web browser, no need for it.
Right? I imagine with a bit of work, some people would use that.
What do you mean by “support”? Flatpak is in the official repository and has been for a while.
You may also consider the backports repository for common software such as office and maybe your DE/tools.
Otherwise, I’ve used a T60 with Libreboot myself for years and it still worked fine for general purpose stuff, but then the CCFL display lighting went dead. It’s not TFT, unfortunately, so they don’t last as long.
One more here. I use it, because it has a builtin pitch shifter, which I need for playing guitar to.
What are the quirks btw.?
Funnily, because of the compression, I thought the same. I hadn’t seen the original.
Then, I was like: Ok, if you’re just trying to make one silly joke, you put that thing into an AI image generator and write “replace the book’s cover with Scrum” and be done with it, that’s fine for once.
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That highly depends on what you consider a “beginner distro” to be.
I don’t like the term, because to me, it implies that you have to emigrate from Mint to something else at some point, which is not the case.
It’s not a distro that is supposed to teach you how to do X on Linux systems. It’s just a solid OS with a lot of features that are easily accessible, which does make it suited for starters, yes.
I don’t think you have to or should touch the terminal at any time as a regular user and Mint allows you to not do that, as you pointed out as well.
I understood streaming as on the receiving end, e.g. watching streamed content online.
I would actually rate that as a plus.
While it’s nice to have the ability to run android apps, I don’t think many newcomers expect that.
However, it’s much more likely to find an Nvidia GPU in there somewhere, which works notoriously badly with Wayland.
Also Wayland has scaling issues with lower resolution fullscreen apps and settings.
I’d rather have those things working by default.
As someone who’s been in this for a while, go with Mint.
It’s not a “beginner distro”. You can start there, you can stay there as long as you don’t develop any super niche prerequisites. Even then, Mint can probably do it.
The developers are sane and it’s a popular system that has been in development for years with many tweaks and improvements. There’s a big community around it if you need help/guides.
You just can’t go wrong with it.
Why does it say 2026? This is happening right now.
…because I didn’t want to be a victim of the tech industry anymore.
Backports are specifically tested for the purpose of being compatible with stable, so there should be no issues.
I can’t really comment on what what gaming desktops need, I feel like you could absolutely play games without the latest drivers at all times, but I don’t play any modern AAA games.
If you need bleeding edge software, then don’t install Debian, for sure. Or go unstable with all the potential issues.
Is that not in Backports?
Also, it has self-healing RAID capabilities.