Might want to change the title a bit…

I mean it is still miles ahead of snaps and the snap store

obviously a troll. And a stupid one at that

Take a look at Borg. It is a very well suited backup tool that has deduplication.

Also because the google pixel its bootloader can be relocked without much trouble. that is a big part of why GOS only supports pixel phones.

Like letting keys expire and ddos the aur to name some.

I mean you got a point 😁

Very cool as a concept but not realistic for longevity. Parts deform over time. Also heat is a mature issue.

Htop vim and ncdu to name a few terminal apps.

As someone who daily drives Opensuse TW and have used arch, gentoo etc. I would highly recommend mint for a new user most of the time. It is one of the distros that works out of the box without any tinkering. Want to add a printer on opensue using yast? good luck. in mint it is a few clicks. just to name a example

Maybe Alpine is suited? Although the whonix VM requirement will not be pleasant or work at all. But that is more of a hardware limitation.

IBM Maximo :) Both are expensive but not for you average consumer.

Something like gparted ? It is specifically designed to manage disks and partitions from a live OS.

To add to this. Take a look at the fog server project. It allows you to PXE boot and pull and push images in a automated way.

Personally I am using rocky Linux. I wonder how the 2 compare nowadays

lol. I am the exact same. Trying to work around stuff and bypassing just about anything thought me how most things work.

i partially agree here. Comparing something like Nix vs Gentoo is like comparing cars and plains. sure their both vehicles but that’s about the it.

Arch linux? :) joke aside perhaps something with btrfs support is handy. you can easily rollback if something breaks. For parental control don’t give the kid sudo/root. other then that restricting websites and stuff is more easily done on a firewall outside of the kid its control.

Almost any of the larger distros will suffice i think. Personally a fan of opensuse tumbleweed which has btrfs support out of the box. use a DE like kde/gnome and i think you have a very solid start

IPA beer is good for sure. freeIPA is a central way to manage Linux devices. manage users ssh keys and even limiting sudo commands with sudo rules. and some other things. It can not do everything active directory does but their sure are a load of similarities.

X11 is very old and all code has been glued on over the years. It is one big spaghetti mess. Very hard to work on and fix bugs. Wayland is much more modular and future proof.