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I saw a video on this exact topic a while ago, it was pretty interesting. Not enough to make me move off Arch (BTW), but I could see it used on some old hardware if I felt like tinkerin’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNYtJ3jyMRs

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Get a cheap VPS on digital ocean, and make a wireguard tunnel from there to your server. Then you don’t need any open ports on your home network

People normally warn against dual booting because of the headaches it can cause - you went and removeded up with triple boot.

Why do you need to cast to it? An Android TV device like the one I mentioned can just play that content.

“Smart TVs” usually suck as the manufacturers tend to put in the cheapest internals that have very little future proofing/longevity.

You’re going to be infinitely better off getting some kind of android TV box (the ONN 4k from Walmart runs Google TV and it’s usually around $20) and just using the “Smart TV” as a display.

Depends on how the partitions are arranged. I’m assuming your Windows is first (going left to right), then probably your boot partition, then your main ext4, and then maybe a swap?

Definitely shrink the windows partition using disk management, but then in Linux you can clone your boot partition to the beginning of the free space, delete the old boot, and then expand the ext4. You don’t HAVE to do it from a live environment, but it is the safest.

I didn’t google much, but this seems about right: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/resize-partitions

I remember running DSL on the OG Xbox! Good times.

Somehow your /etc/default/grub file contents have been replaced with that of /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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I’m a sysadmin and do most everything in Powershell, there’s very few things that I need a GUI for.

If it’s something not documented, I usually run the program on a test bench while using procmon, that will show me which registry key or config file needs to be modified, which can then be done from the command line.

I just install openssh on my Windows machines and then I can use RDP or SSH for whatever I need.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Features#feature-matrix

The Surface Pro is actually a really good option if you want a Linux tablet

I have 18 people on my IT team and 6 are women.

This reads like a paid advertisement for Linux Mint

Stick with Fedora and Nobara, they are good distros. I use Arch myself, because I like that bleeding edge, bro - but if those other distros are working for you, there’s pretty much no reason for the average person to switch.

It’s usually pretty easy to find secondhand Microsoft Surface devices for that price point (check craigslist, FB marketplace, and the like), and they absolutely rock when using a Gnome-based distro (like Fedora).

There’s a great project that works on Linux compatibility for Surface devices, you can check it out here: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supported-Devices-and-Features#feature-matrix

Open the terminal and copy and paste the commands found in their install guide for Ubuntu:

# Download signing key 
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/mullvad-keyring.asc

# Add the stable repository
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mullvad-keyring.asc arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repository.mullvad.net/deb/stable $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mullvad.list

# Install 
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mullvad-vpn

At first I thought this was a joke, but it’s actually informative 🤔

Why talk like this do you?