People are, understandably, so tired of both blockchain and LLM “news”, that posts on the topic will gather a lot of downvotes by the mere mention of it, even the few ones that are insightful and interesting, as opposed to the usuall techbro shill.

Mandrake was the 2nd distro I tried some 25 years ago.

I have no first hand experience, but I read about it here recently:
https://www.projectgus.com/2024/09/18-months-with-framework-laptop/

He has another post named “20 months…etc”, where he has done something tweaks and upgrades, and it’s all good.

Source?

I’m hearing good things about Framework, provided you get the hinge upgrade.

If you need something beefier, personally I’m using a Lenovo Legion 7 (2024 version… that white one, bought it a few months ago), and I’m loving it. Linux Mint worked out of the box, but I chose to replace the stock wifi driver with a better one.

True. In my particular case it’s not an issue (because of a long and boring story I can’tbe arsed getting into), but shielding oneself as well as the employer from legal liability is important.

Hoard a copy of your work. Even if your new overlords are gutting and replacing it, ot might be useful elsewhere one day.

Source: Similar situation once upon a time. I am currently using on a daily basis what was once replaced in a different company.

linux manpages are better formatted than your post about estetics. Opinion discarded.

I’ll share with you this gem from someone who tried to cause a syntax error on purpose, but the script ran just fine: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11695110/why-is-this-program-valid-i-was-trying-to-create-a-syntax-error

I find that it’s around the same, except linux waits on updating the UI until all write buffers are flushed, whereas Windows does not.

You have one per installed kernel. Not sure what (if any) automagic is common for removing old kernels, I guess this varies between distros, but at least on my computers, old kernel remain. At least the previous one, maybe more. It comes in handy in case a kernel upgrade breaks something, which it actually did recently on one of my laptops - makes it easier to boot from old kernel and revert.

EDIT: I just checked. I have just one on my daily driver. It’s quite new, and I don’t think I’ve had a kernel upgrade on that one, so it makes sense.

On my work laptop (the one with borked kernel upgrade) I have two.

So what you most likely have is one or more vmlinuz-version-numbers, and then simply a symlink named just vmlinuz to the version you boot from.

Short answer to your last paragraph:
vmlinuz is the kernel. It ends with z instead of x, because it’s z-compressed to save space. (I’ve heard that it’s possible to use an uncompressed kernel for that 1ms faster boot time)
Initramfs (not intramuscular, which my autocorrect thinks is appropriate) is a small filesystem blob, “initial ram filesystem”, meant to be loaded directly into ram to allow the kernel to talk to your hardware via drivers. It also has a lot of binaries needed to perform other tasks that need to run before the root filesystem is mounted.

Plural.

Can’t be arsed fixing that for you.

“It just works”

…because that is the state of a mainstream modern distro, and it’s not true of Windows anymore.

Alternatively “No nagging, no forced online account.”

cd /usr/ports/hammertothehead && make && make install

…for FreeBSD users

yum install melatonin

I would’ve liked to see him try mint instead. Less fluff, and hopefully that would’ve gone better for him.