What happened in Gnome for them to merge so much stuff recently?

Is that a standard systemd configuration or something enabled by a distro?

Wifi works now, the wiki is out of date.
However, the Pinetab 2 does not have the screen layer for stylus support. See the FAQ

Your best bet is anything Wacom as they have their own driver in Linux. Alternatively OpenTabletDriver supports some other tablets as well https://opentabletdriver.net/Tablets.
Or the DIGImend kernel driver http://digimend.github.io/drivers/digimend/tablets/

In my experience setting environment variables is pretty inconsistent. The easiest way would be using /etc/environment. This sets stuff globally for all users and definitely works.

PAM also used to support a per-user environment file, but that’s deprecated or removed even. The best you can do for per-user config is setting variables both in your login shell and the systemd user environments file.

Or Wayland, where this isn’t an issue.

Set ‘blendos-base’ in your system.yaml, install additional packages, update and reboot.

I already learnt of blendOS two weeks ago, I think in a discussion of immutable distros.

Really looking forward to play around with it some more and maybe replace my Arch install with this.

Big ass enter is way better than the small one.
You can’t change my mind.

You could just run everything as root or configure sudo without timeout.

Firewalld had, at least last time I checked, way more capabilities than UFW. Both are fine at being basic firewalls, but I don’t think you can build a router using just UFW.

Firewalld allows some pretty advanced rules. I use it to redirect a bunch of web requests going to a certain address over a local ssh tunnel.

It’ll also ignore the default firewalld rules. IIRC it uses the internal zone instead

You could use BTRFS, ZFS or BcacheFS to do compression on the filensystem level, but it’s not gonna compress video files or other already compressed media.

Without knowing what was being hosted, the only surefire way would be pulling a complete disk image with cat or dd.

If you wanted to stay on a similar system, RHEL 9 would be a good option or one of its “as similar as possible” like AlmaLinux.

Other common distros for servers are Debian, Ubuntu server and Suse SLES/OpenSuse Leap.

There’s Onedriver to connect onedrive on Linux. Though it’s been a while since I last used it.

How well does the current linux app for Proton VPN work on mobile?
It might also be easier to get an ARM64 version than a completely separate app.

Maybe package that for Ubuntu Touch, however their packaging works.

Totally agreed, but you’d still want gpu decoding.

If you want hardware decoding, first check what your gpu actually supports. vainfo can be used on Linux for example.

If you have a very new gpu, it might support av1 decoding. This is currently the best codec and alsi free.

Otherwise I’d prefer hevc and then avc, in that order. Vp8 or vp9 might also be supported, but they never caught on much so encoders and decoders are generally worse for them than the equivalents for other codecs.

I don’t know any private person who was prosecuted for using hevc or avc. Most likely your hardware manufacturer and other companies already paid for the license to use hevc/avc. If you live in the EU it’s even less of a problem as software patents are not a thing here, i.e. you can’t patent a way to do things.

Foe audio opus is the best codec at the momenr.

Please make sure to compare the quality before and after decoding. Even using a more efficient codec I’d be wary of a 300mb sized movie.

I don’t think Zed has an email client and window manager built-in.

Not having automated updates can quickly lead to not doing updates at all. Same goes for backups.

Whenever possible, one should automate tedious stuff.