You could read the Red Mars series. It covers some of the points you’ve raised albeit it is Science Fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

Thanks for the tips. I did some got training a few months ago but hadn’t considered using it for Linux configs.

That is good advice.

Thank you for your advice. I will take it. As a beginner, I’ll start with Mint.

Would your reccomend any other secure distro for the future?

Thanks for the reply. I’m fairy average Joe. I’ll mainly use this machine for downloading files and general browsing. I don’t have any personal files or accounts on that device.

I’m mainly concerned with neglecting to enable (or disabling) something critical or accidentally downloading something malicious (although this hasn’t happened for many many years).

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks. I take it that software centre is like a Linux app store?

This cover just reminded me of an early 2000s trend to Photoshop this cover.

I just tried a couple of old sights and they’re dead.

Does anyone have any old websites to recommend?

I want to go back and visit the old web.

I highly recommend Accursed Farms (this guy’s) YouTube channel. His content is very well made and he seems like a good person (I’ve been watching for a lot of years).

Obligatorily: YouTube is crap statement, used piped instead.