With xfce, since op doesn’t want plasma or gnome

In addition to all the good suggestions already here, consider installing early-oom and configure it to kill the stuff you care less, maybe one of those heavy electron-based clients.

It’s been some time… Before Xorg there was Xfree86, and before that the various implementations by the other Unix vendors. Does that make sense?

This is one of the most useful things in Xorg, and prior to that in X11. If you (generic you, not anyone in particular here) don’t know about it it’s because you come from too long time on “my users are stupid” operating systems. It’s one of those things that once you have it in muscle memory you use it without even thinking about it.

Have I mis-pasted things? Yes. Have l pasted my password in an IRC channel? Yes. Would I stop using it because once every few months I make a mistake? Not at all.

Make it configurable, if you must, but leave us old timers work the way we have done for 30 years or more. There are already some software/ toolkits that disable it, so it is likely doable on a per-app basis.

Gratuitous “old man yells at clouds” rant: people should be forced to use a VT52 for one year before being granted GUI privileges, especially if you work with network hardware.

I’ll crawl back in my cave now.

Great advice in the comments already, I’ll just recommend that you familiarise yourself with the rescue boot of a live disc of your distro.

If things go weird with thr move you can boot the live in rescue mode, mount your disks and fix fstab, or even redo the initrd . Don’t wait until you need it

Yo mama so old Debian calls her stable

Use [0-9] to match the number

The real shame is that windows never had the compose key. But all these layouts come from mechanical typewriters, anyway.

You don’t need a desktop for a server. A local TTY allows the same stuff as connecting over SSH but you can do whatever you need to bring up the network. The drawback is having to go to the data centre…

What does /proc/partitions say?

Also, if you plan to use that 256MB partition for /boot, make it bigger. I go for 1G lately.

Can you check in a terminal? If you can see them in the terminal and not in the desktop you’re missing a font. If you can’t see them in the terminal then you’ve somehow mangled them. What was the OS and filesystems you copied from?

It has absolutely never happened before that one guy had to spend some time in a government facility. No. Not at all.

Comedy can be staged and still be funny. It’s acting.

Try putting -vvv when you connect and see what’s happening. I can imagine this happening if you have multiple identities (private/public key pairs) on the client and you hit a max retry limit. Pub key is always tried first, and it should ask for password once all the local keys have been tried.

Which distro?

Thank you and all the others that took time to educate me on what is for me a “I know some of those words” subject

At the cost of sounding naive and stupid, wouldn’t it be possible to improve compilers to not spew out unsafe executables? Maybe as a compile time option so people have time to correct the source.

Boh, my average experience is “apt install foo”. Let’s not perpetuate myths.

What kind of prompt does your company 2FA provide? Using openconnect with networkmangler, I get a pop up to input my pin+totp. I haven’t done the script way in the last few years, but the connection script is plain shell and I was able to handle the 2FA from there too

For anyconnect: openconnect works perfectly, either as standalone script or via networkmangler.