FDO is FreeDesktop dot Org, the XDG people

Vaxry is an asshole (the Hyprland maintainer)

1. I’d say go for a rolling, maybe do updates on weekends
2. The students will very likely appreciate the customizability of Plasma or Cinnamon; if you want them to focus on work, GNOME (probably with some extensions) would be better. Tilers are a bad idea, because they take some getting used to
3. Doesn’t really matter, company distros might be paid tho, and that can obviously get expensive
4. Wayland if your DE has good support (i.e. is GNOME or Plasma), otherwise X
5. Btrfs’ snapshotting capabilities might be useful to rollback the system to something working if the students fuck something up
6. Immutable without sudo access should be the safest to hand over to people that you don’t want to ruin anything
7. I don’t know enough about specific purpose distros

If you already know Nix, NIxOS would be a good choice

don’t need an extra guy

I’m so glad you can automate QA jobs

I think something like

%wheel ALL= NOPASSWD: /bin/apt

should be the right way of disabling the password for apt.

They do! /bin has the executables, and /usr/share has everything else.

I don’t think there really is an easy way to do this. For sure not as easy as reinstalling.

obviously a weather app couldn’t possibly use your location for anything, must be spyware

Thanks, I switched from unconfigured (but working because magic) networkmanager to pure wpa_supplicant on my NixOS system yesterday and I definitely noticed frequent reconnecting.

Found this recently:

it became a thing yesterday lol

I use AnySoftKeyboard (fdroid github website). It has quite the amount of customizability. I like that there are arrow buttons to navigate text better.

There’s a python library for everything

read the code and pretend you understand it (real understanding will slowly come with that)

I used to run sudo pacman -Syu like every 5 minutes (bleeding edge, more like bled out edge). I’d recommend once or twice a day to stay up-to-date.

No way, Debian uses systemd, and systemd uses systemd-journald for logging, and doesn’t need cron, because it has timers.

My real first time using Linux was with Pop!_OS in April last year.

foss

I use AntennaPod on my phone and Castero (TUI) on my computer.

Unlike certain services, the main fdroid repo is pretty reliable

Gentoo has version 3.0.x available