VLC is such an incredible tool, I use it just about everyday to do everything from just watching a video to recording streams . Don’t forget to donate in some way to your favorite apps. I know the VLC group could use some help to keep them going.
I use ConnectionManager as a cute part of my “work flow”. Sadly this hasn’t been maintained very well by the original maintainer, but others have picked up the project and are keeping it patched to keep running. https://github.com/sciancio/connectionmanager2
I wish I could help you but I didn’t get the impression that the OS is the one with the problems.
I have used Evolution in the past. It was very Outlook like and did a decent job talking to Exchange. Now days i just use the web interface.
I stopped by to say the same thing. I use Zabbix to monitor everything
You could implement a ssh tunnel every time it is online. Then you just use a reverse tunnel through that connection.
Windows 98 second edition By then i was bored with windows and a friend told me about Linux and i haven’t looked back.
Don’t forget Wayland and security into the mix as well. That seems to have caused some of the biggest issues with apps. Don’t get me wrong though, security was desperately needed. X11 had no concept of security.
The “allowed host” on the client side is to put the networks in you would like to route to. If you want to use the VPN tunnel for your default route it’s when you use the 0.0.0.0/0
Your drive may be going bad. When errors are detected it will remount the drive as read only.