gpodder could probably accomplish what you want

Those are indeed normal stumbling blocks.Thanks for being one of the very few Linux game devs!

You could host gitea locally on a spare computer and use that to store you dotfiles.

Check /var/log/syslog, dmesg, and /var/log/auth.log

Like the others suggest, try setting up ssh access so you can see what’s happening.

If you use ssh and login, I’d recommend using top or htop and maybe diskhogs and see what’s up

It’s an immutable distro that leverages containers to allow you to install packages from different distros. Further, it provides friendly tools and guis to make this easier than it would otherwise be

Neato

Like, the 2012 model? That should work. Xubuntu would run nicely.

Recommendation: you can get a decent used laptop from eBay or Craigslist and install mint on it. Cost would be under $200.

As I understand it, the issue is that tmux invents its own terminal emulator functionality that conflicts with the existing terminal it runs within, while screen simply defers scroll functionality to the terminal emulator.

ulimit can also be used to define limits, but for a user rather than a process. This could protect you against, ie, a fork bomb

systemd-run lets you run a command under some limitations, ie

systemd-run --scope -p MemoryLimit=1000M -p CPUQuota=20% ./heavyduty.sh

Scrolling in screen is superior to tmux imo

Chromebooks have a special bios, it works with a chip on the motherboard to detect if chromeos is running or if some unverified os is running. If chromeos isn’t running, it displays a warning message on boot. This behavior cannot be disabled.

You can; however it will always show a message that leaves you a keypress away from nuking your system on boot

I still use Firefox; their bullshit is less egregious than Chrome’s and they are Chrome’s only challenger. The ai features don’t even come in to play unless you actually choose to use them.

This tracks; aws offers Ubuntu workspaces for their managed directory service since a couple years ago

It’s a great distro. You don’t have to compile; lots of packages are available as binaries, but having the option to compile the latest version of things is cool. Definitely worth a try, especially if you were using arch before.

Huh, I mostly use apvlv and mupdf. They are command line binaries but they have a gui; I don’t really see a point in looking at a PDF with something other than a gui.

I haven’t tried fedora in a few years, but every time I have tried it, the installer failed in some way.

Opensuse tumbleweed, kubuntu. Both solid options for you. Bear in mind bazzite is an immutable distro and as such, it is not very customizable.