Thanks a lot for this detailed, understandable and kind answer :)

The article talks about sudo and doas being SUID binaries and having a larger attack surface than run0 would. Could someone ELI5 what this means?

You also need full root access to you bank’s machines.

For the execution, can’t you configure the fstab with noexec on partitions where the user has write permissions and give the user read-only permissions on the root partition ?

I think this would be fine for most jobs, the exception being software development where you usually need to execute stuff to test your programs.

From the gitlab page:

The user can move the cursor with h,j,k,l (vim keys), or the arrow keys.

Yes you can.
I spend a lot od time fixing things that I broke because I like it and it’s a hobby for me.

I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition on my SO’s laptop last year (old thinkpad t470) and I haven’t had to do anything about it since then. The installation process was easy, I didn’t bother changing the defaults and just clicked “Next” on most of the steps.

Can you share with us the hardware you’ll be using ? In most cases it’ll be easy peasy, but some stuff is known to cause issues that we might be able to identify before you start your journey.

Please stop posting good reasons to use Linux, I already feel bad enough for the poor people stuck in Win$ and MacO$

NeoMutt is an easy to use and cool looking tui email client.

My personnal favorite is cmus Small, fast and powerful console music player

In France we write it both way and AFAIK there is no “recommanded” or “better” way.

The world feels very lonely when you care about linux.

They are not storing music on the floppys, only playlist identifiers and they want their system to listen on floppy insert events and launch a playlist when the matching floppy is inserted.

CachyOS (arch-based) because I read somewhere it was good for gaming on recent rigs (supposedly pre-optimized stuff that I’ll probably never learn about).

So far so good, it’s been an almost “everything works out of the box” experience.

Had mainly used debian and arch before that.

IIRC they usually try to push you towards installing their spyware desktop client and the option to join the meeting from your browser is made as less visible as possible.

Is there a reason why you didn’t list “using the web client in firefox and install none of their crap on my machine” among the options you consider ?

I’ve installed and used it, and still do.

My internet connection is not that reliable, and when I download big files that are not torrents (say >1000 MB) and the download is interrupted because of internet disconnect, Firefox often has trouble getting back to it while FDM doesn’t.

FDM also lets me set download speed limits, which means I can still browse the internet while downloading.

It’s not my main tool for downloading stuff, but it has its uses.