You can easily add Wifi with a USB dongle anyway. Hardly a hurdle.

Sure, but that’s what I’m asking about. Why should people try this one?

Does anyone use this? I’ve yet to find a defining feature list of why anyone should use it aside from cosmetic differences. Does it even have a defining feature set?

It is Gnome.

https://source.android.com/docs/security/app-sandbox

They are two different things.

A Clone of an OS install is not needed anymore, for a jillion reasons.

Personal files do not relate to that.

Perhaps you don’t understand how these are intended to work?

This comment isn’t making any sense to me, but good on ya?

Nah. This is old school thought. Use an immutable distro if this is your concern, and keep all your files on a NAS, or something else that can replay your files. Local images of your entire filesystem isn’t needed anymore.

Friendo, I think once you understand exactly what an OS is, you’ll have fewer problems. An OS is just a layer on top of hardware with a lot of scripts and tools that enable that hardware to do things like move files, show graphics, and send audio in a desktop environment. Never issue a root or sudo command unless you understand exactly what it’s doing. Following this one simple rule will save you a lot of trouble, same as any Windows machine.

I’m not sure what the question here is. Are you wondering which level of suspension you want your laptop to go into when you close the lid?

You should understand ACPI sleep states when trying to setup whatever active states you want your machine to be in when you close the lid, because there is a chain of events that happen when you do so. Your machine may only support one, or a few states (s0-s3) that may not allow this. The first step is above, and the second is understanding what state your machine is being put into once you close that lid, so start there with Mint configuration and how it’s dealing with the lid closing.

GDPR can only extend to their borders, the same that any country’s laws extend to theirs. Why would you expect another country to honor your “home rules”?

Anyone have experience with it? I’m trying to think of something that is MacOS only that I care about to test it with, but coming up empty.

I think you just mean “declarative”. Highly configurable is literally any distro. I’d say NixOS is actually LESS configurable by design, but that is sort of the point: a repeatable image based on a template no matter what.

Could have fooled me, because it’s certainly the default for things like brew, flatpak, mpm, and pip. Looks like npm and maven use it on certain Debian based distros as well. I’m betting more of the immutable distros use that directory as well vs something in /var/cache.

It’s a cache folder. Created by the distro. They labelled it as such because it’s cache, and can be considered ephemeral. It won’t do any permanent damage to anything unless you’ve accidentally been using it for something else.

Depends on the package manager. Check options for whatever you’re running.

This particular folder caches many things from various package managers. Won’t hurt to clear, but will fill up again. Maybe consider not using caches when engaging such things.

I’m assuming you don’t want a full disk encryption solution, but you can also use LUKS to just create an encrypted mount of any supported filesystem. You don’t need any type of standalone program to encrypt your things for you.

Ram usage in this case would be localized to data “in-transit”, meaning there is an in-memory buffer that is eventually cleared and written to disk in seconds. Unless you have some crazy equipment that can transmit 20Gb/s, don’t worry about.

There’s honestly not a lot of practical uses for it when you have the option of just running a Linux Distro anyway. It’s mostly to keep people who NEED to run Linux for work in Windows as an OS. Otherwise, I’ve found no purpose for it. Neat I guess? Useful, no.