That’s a shame, I rather like bauh

It works ? I mean what necessary functionality is it missing ? Magnet link goes in, files come out, happy face.

Generally most people get recommended to start their Linux journey with Mint as it is noob friendly (while still having full functionality) other options to consider would be popOS Ubuntu & Fedora.

qBittorrent is the most recommended I’ve seen, although I use transmission.

Given the TOR part is kinda the point of tails you may wish to expand on what exactly a “tails like live os without tor” looks like.

The standard Mint iso will boot into a live session with no persistence, click on network icon to join tge wifi and away you go. You can setup a script to install stuff that isnt on the stock build (pretty sure firefox is there but a vpn config for example).

Without a use case description that sounds like what you’re asking for.

I’m sure the other distros that offer live usbs will be the same.

If timeshift is not already installed, please do. Do a snapshot before you update and set the settings to auto delete / keep only a certain number (or do it manually) so you don’t fill your hard drive. I usually keep 1 monthly, 3 weekly and 3 dailies on a rolling basis

If you do the snapshot religiously then when an update breaks it you can just boot a liveUSB and restore (mint iso is a live USB and has it already installed).

You do of course then need to work out what broke and why once you’ve rolled back to the prior working state

Sorry, proof of concept, i was being lazy

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While KDE plasma can be made to work on Mint (I’ve done it as a PoC) it is NOT something a beginner should be doing because a) it’s an unsupported config and b) you need to pull in non mint repositories to get the plasma files, and then you’ll be fiddling around to get it working again when an update breaks something.

If Mint has been troublesome then popOS ubuntu and Fedora would be better choices.

Timeshift for configs to a locally attached drive. Home partition to cloud with rsync

First sentence of the article

“new default Cinnamon theme coming to Linux Mint 22.1 later this year.”

I can’t work out if this is well intentioned ignorance or trolling, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and a serious answer.

The first point is there are a huge number of threats to privacy and your online and data security from connecting to the internet even in western countries.

VPNs are not just for protection from govt abuse, in fact their efficacy there is far lower than for several other use cases.

If you’re in the US (for example) and with one of the biggest ISPs then every DNS request being made is (was anyway, I assume still is) logged and your internet usage is then sold off to data brokers to profile you.

So yeah, dont trust your ISP, and if you’re dealing with a VPN that wants all that info then find a better one (proton or mullvad for exampke, you can pay with monero or bitcoin or even cash by snail mail)

Most common reason is running out of disk space. Boot from USB and have a check as to whether the update filled up the disk

Context for those who are baffled (I was)

https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/

No Linus hasn’t grabbed a red rag and isn’t off to foment revolution