Gparted. I’m pretty sure it’s bundled with Mint. Identify which partition it is, then simply delete it. Then you can create a new partition on the newly unallocated area or extend an existing partition onto it.

You might have to edit the bootloader’s boot entries and remove the Windows boot manager.

are rolling release distros stable enough

I’ve been using Arch (or some flavor of it) for several years, and I’ve never had any serious issues that I didn’t cause myself. The thing that might catch you with your pants down is if a dependency introduces a change that breaks another application, but catastrophic failures are fairly rare, as long as you’re willing to learn how to maintain your system.

is it possible/easy to roll back to a previous version

Yes. The application is called Timeshift, and it’s specifically designed to back up the system files to a separate partition. If your root filesystem is btrfs, it can also manage filesystem-level snapshots that you can roll back if you bugger the system.

It’s another slice of Swiss cheese. If the user has a strong enough password or other authentication method through PAM, it might stop or hinder an attacker who might only have a compromised private key, for example. If multiple users have access to the same server and one of them is compromised, the account can be disabled without completely crippling the system.

Using sudo can also help you avoid mistakes (like accidentally rebooting a production server) by restricting which commands are available to the user.

“If you don’t have organic intelligence at home, store-bought is fine.” - leo (probably)

Counterpoint: if you have the ability and willingness to learn how Linux works, un-fucking a broken Arch installation will teach you more about the system than spending months with a stable distro. I know because my first serious daily driver was Manjaro.

mouse movement stops and then “catches up” every second or so

I had that issue with a wired G502 mouse. It was caused by an excessive polling rate, and setting it to 125 Hz fixed it.

If you have a specific purpose in mind for the drive, then mounting it statically is probably the easiest solution.

My setup is:

• 2 TB NVMe
  • 200 GB partition at /
  • The rest (~1.8 TB) mounted at /games
• 1 TB SATA SSD mounted at /home
• 3 TB HDD mounted at /hdd

/mnt and /media are used differently based on the OS. /mnt is supposed to be used for temporary manual mounts, but you can use it (or a subdirectory) as a permanent mount point. /media is meant to contain mount points for dynamically mounted removable devices, but modern systems generally use /run/media/$USER for that purpose; I would personally avoid it nevertheless.

…maybe it’s better that the Windows source code remain closed.

At the same time, I’d love to see the developers of the world glimpse at that eldritch cognitohazard and collectively go insane.

Command line cheat sheet (with bonus vim controls):

You’ll have to use a virtual machine and pass through the USB device.

You’ll have to install QEMU (ideally qemu-desktop since you’ll only need the x86 VM), libvirt, and virt-manager. Start the libvirtd service (enables the management interface), then run virsh net-start default as root (enables networking). Create and install a Windows virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Manager application. I recommend Windows 10 or earlier because 11 needs extra steps. Once the VM is running, open the Virtual Machine menu, click on “Redirect USB Device”, then choose the device you want to configure. It will be detached from the host OS and passed through directly to the guest.

Color management ensures accurate and identical color reproduction across display devices. It’s extremely important for artists and designers, and its absence in Wayland is a deal breaker for them.

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

I was ready to have a rant about PHP. Well played.

Qtile was my first daily driver tiling WM. It was a pain in the ass to install, but it’s damn near as extensible as DWM (since the config file is literally a python program). The only thing I hate about it is that you can’t reposition windows in the tiling layout by drag-and-drop.

If touchpad gestures work, I’m putting that on my macbook air. That looks so comfortable.

Linus Torvalds and Kent Overstreet (the main developer of bcachefs) often argued on the Linux mailing list over adherence to long-standing practices when submitting pull requests. In the latest confrontation, Kent dropped this absolute clown shoes response:

If you’re so convinced you know best, I invite you to start writing your own filesystem. Go for it.

Narrated by Aussie Waylandman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07XjCGQpwpw&t=869s. I recommend watching the entire video, it’s very entertaining.

I think you and the bcachefs owner would be very good friends.

The reality is that, although there are quite a few standalone Wayland compositors, you don’t hear about most of them, because almost all of them suck in one way or another if you go beyond opening terminals.

Oh, fuck off! I can barely use Blender because dragging a spinner control does something with the cursor that makes Hyprland shit its pants. It’s been fixed and broken several times. May or may not be related: Vaxry has expressed his disdain for Blender in issue notes. (edit) found it: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/3270

(edit2) I should also mention that Hyprland is the only compositor where this happens. KDE Plasma, Qtile-wayland, Sway, Wayfire are all fine.

Dude’s shilling for his own compositor backend right after ditching wlroots. He has zero credibility in this matter.

That’s a fair point. I rarely read comments on news articles, but morbid curiosity overpowered my self-preservation instinct.