Gnome makes absolutely no promises of version compatibility for extensions.

You’re stuck waiting for an extension dev to update to support the new gnome version.

That server’s root access is now vulnerable to a compromise of the systems that have the private key.

An alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:

1. Drop to rescue/emergency/single-user mode.
2. Do your changes to the user account
3. Drop back to multiuser mode.

s/chatgpt/journalists/ too.

They my go to to quickly triage a problem being caused by SEL or not.

Not quite. But sorta, yeah.

Learning to “not fuck with it” or ways to do so and rollback are valid lessons themselves.

Being able to segregate “production” and “development” environments is very valuable.

100%

The alternative being variations on:

Hi my name is [redacted], I have [X] years experience.

Please run sfc /scannow.

You can find more help at [Irrelevant KB URL].

Please rank me 5 stars.

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Theoretically one could also prohibit rebooting.

IIRC kexec is pivot_root but for the kernel.

I thought this was a request for Stack Overflow proof.

Then figured that was 'proof from pasting random crap from SO".

Then figured it’s the same thing.

Any distro will be suitable, create yourself as the first user when installing (which will probably be added to the wheel/sudoers group or whatever) then create a new ‘standard’ user.

Most distribution defaults should be adequate.

For added safety, choose one that is immutable like, for example, Fedora atomic.

Huh, all see is *******

The nouveau drivers are just barely enough to have a desktop, anything actually needing a GPU will perform very poorly (in my anecdotal experience with 4K). Or, to put it another way, choosing an NVIDIA card is choosing their proprietary drivers.

So you’re left with AMD (and Intel). The open amdgpu driver is pretty good and is suitable for gaming. Which I do.

I have no experience with Intel, but I believe their open drivers are pretty good.

So I recommend AMD.

Such actions are typically indicative of having a micropenis. being a colossal jerk.

Please avoid using denigrating terms.

Potentially faster installation

Particularly when you’re flashing the ISO you downloaded from MS to USB and it doesn’t work unless you use MS’s magic tool. Thus dropping you into the bootstrap paradox.

Especially because it gets partway through the install before failing to load NVMe drivers complaining there is no installation media to load them from.

It turns out it’s faster to install Ubuntu and download one of MS’s windows VM’s and use that to download and flash a USB than actually install Windows 11.

Or never even purchased!

find ~ ... would be quicker, auto generated files are likely stored in ~/. cache per-profile.

Quicker… as in for a first-stab, then /var. Rather than scanning the whole disk.

The fd file is likely the bios image. You can probably just stick it on a FAT usb drive or even just the EFI partition if you have one.

You can probably flash that from the bios itself.

The bios might expect a different file extension, so just rename it

Seconded on less swap. It depends on if you’d prefer to have a process be killed (have less swap) or the system go unresponsive for a while and eventually (hopefully) come back (more swap).

Also if the swap is on a slow disk, try moving it to a faster one if possible.

It used to be Shithouse

Only if it’s Mel Gibson “Frrrrreeeeddddooooooommmmmm”

“Be free”