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    Is Mint looked down on by those who use more 'advanced' distros?

    Man, and what do you do? On this forum I see constant bashing of Arch users contrasting this with how good Mint is. Jeez if you don't like any aspect of specific distro use different one. These are just tools and I don't see a point of whining. If you are no stranger to different distros none...
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    Switzerland is going open source, yet another reason to admire that country

    Man, yours is the funniest responses that I red in some time. You are forcing responders in this thread to accept YOUR definitions. Adding more entertainment, you are making everything relative so good luck to anyone trying to give reasonable response. Please, stop this s..t. or I die laughing...
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    Unbound, VPN IP addresses

    I think that you have to understand what VPN is used for. DoT/DoH combined with VPN does not make any sense but one can use such configuration. If you have VPN don't combine it with DoT/DoH. All depends what is your goal but use one or another.
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    Don't use Mobile Phones

    Didn't you know that Qrcode specifically is abused already? You must be lazy not reading the news ;) Also, few days ago US government confirmed that FBI removed chinese malware from thousands of computers. Similar operation was done in France... WITHOUT USER'S KNOWLEDGE. Phones are fine just...
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    Artix Linux good to use?

    Question: what non-systemd init I should try? Answer: systemd Why oh why systemd needs extra advertisement if it is so good? Maybe bacause this is first and only init that can delete user's home directory? Crazy, no ;) I used Artix (I used Arch long before systemd was introduced so when I...
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    Switzerland is going open source, yet another reason to admire that country

    I am sorry I misunderstood. I don't think though that android is in the same room as Windows users mainly because one can do anything with android devices. Until it is possible to install custom ROMs I don't think that Google is this bad. Apple is? I don't know where. My wife has Apple laptop...
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    How To Install A Higher Version of the Kernel, Build/Compile and Make the System Used It

    ohh, I don't think that you dis Slackware :) I think though that if anything in regards of kernel custom installation I think that Slackware is the easiest just need kernel sources. But everything is relative so whatever is most convenient for the user is the best.
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    Switzerland is going open source, yet another reason to admire that country

    Not sure what do you mean? Should I list all companies just because you do not understand example?
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    Switzerland is going open source, yet another reason to admire that country

    wrong: what do you count? agglomeration? conglomeration? urban? city proper? Check out first ten listings for this year and you see that they differ. As far as I checked these numbers are somewhat explained only by British encyclopedia when listing population. Most places don't bother.
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    Switzerland is going open source, yet another reason to admire that country

    I wonder how this Swiss myth was born? When asked by Spain, Proton Mail provided user names and email content to the Spanish police. If request is valid Swiss will abide, so for anyone who wants privacy or anonymity just selecting Swiss providers is plain stupid. This goes for literally...
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    How To Install A Higher Version of the Kernel, Build/Compile and Make the System Used It

    Slackware has all needed tools for kernel compilation pre-installed. will detect all hardware connected and working (you need modules loaded for your hardware) and remove everything that is not loaded. Exception being build-in hardware that this script does not touch. Because this is kernel...
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    How To Install A Higher Version of the Kernel, Build/Compile and Make the System Used It

    Slackware? Debian? Arch?, Gentoo? Slackware and Gentoo are simple just use sources from www.kernel.org. Debian and Arch require post-compilation packaging Based on the pic from your post you plan to update kernel on Slack. Then Grub or lilo or elilo? First blacklist kernels in: sudo nano...
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    Getting Started with Arch Linux: A Beginner's Installation Guide

    Great guide. It underscores how easy it is to install Arch so it always baffles me why anyone would consider Arch installation difficult.
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    Dell is re-branding it's line of laptops.

    Dell, Dell Pro, Dell Max hmmmm sounds familiar... what about M ;) and why Dell thinks that this is news? Personally I was buying just Dell or HP or Lenovo
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    Microsoft Dictum Ending Windows 10 Support Creates Unique Opportunity for a Quantum Expansion of the Linux Universe

    I don't share OP enthusiasm: 1) this scenario happened already when MS was forcing win8 to win10 switch. Users complained MS extended support and eventually most users switched to win10 2) if referring to TPM 2.0, it was introduced 10yrs ago so most machines support TPM 2.0 already. If not...
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    I'm a huge fan of academia...

    It is derived from greek and means "love of wisdom". In Europe one can get PhD in all natural sciences including math. I got PhD in biology (gene regulation). These days PhD title is a bit watered down and almost every specialty has PhD. While working at different universities, I never had to...
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    I'm a huge fan of academia...

    When I was working on my PhD it was a little more difficult that it is now: I gow very general draft of my project and I had to fill out all the blanks myself. If I could not do it on my own then I had to drop out of the program. Today, students expect way more assistance and if help is not...
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    Linux operating system

    There is similar topic somewhere here. Newertheless, my first personal computer was running FreeBSD and this was in mid 90'. I switched to linux because I had some hardware issues with latest devices and BSD (in general). In early 2000' I was multibooting BSDs and several Linux distros. After...
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    I use Mint right now, what would be an good advanced distro for me?

    Here you go: stop using crappy software. Learn proper linux (UNIX) commands. This will be your first step towards advanced linux. For this you don't need a lot of CPU power. Abandon so called aplets instead try to configure everything manually. This would be your second step of learning...
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    Long ago I removed XP from Dell Inspiron 1501 and loaded CentOS6 this being the only OS I could find that would override the Dell Quickset facility

    CRUX runs ~95MB of RAM. With fluxbox/openbox/blackbox (examples) you can get less than ~120MB RAM usage at boot. Also Antix linux is quite good at RAM usage if CRUX is too much.
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