If you feel like you need/want software from AUR you should check out Distrobox. It can run any distro on top of your installation using Docker under the hood, but it tightly integrates into your system so with little effort you can run AUR programs from your launcher as if they were natively installed on your Mint.

Alternatively: cheap second hand RAM.

Yes, but for how long?

There’s a separate quota for email storage and cloud storage.

I have started using Mailbox.org since about a year with several custom domains. Its around 3 €/$ per month for the basic tier which also includes some cloud storage and an online office suite (of which neither I use). I’ve been happy with it.

never install software system-wide without your package manager.

What’s the alternative of sudo make install and curl | sudo bash if a package is not available in AUR? I am unfamiliar with make install .

Agreed, this has been my experience as well. I tried switching to full time Linux multiple times. I had already used it on my laptop for years but on my desktop I kept going back to Windows because things on Windows just worked the way I wanted and thought that for some things there weren’t any Linux alternatives.

That was until two years ago I challenged myself to only use Linux for a month. I’ve been using Linux on my desktop ever since and only use Windows now and then to play a single game that doesn’t work on Linux due to anti cheat.

Luckfox Pico Mini might be you’re looking for. It’s a Linux SBC that costs around 10 USD, in a Teensy/Raspberry Pico or even smaller formfactor.

I’m guessing it’s the same common issue present on many Gigabyte AM4 boards. The IT8792E (and perhaps others) doesn’t work with the kernel driver. There are workarounds but they make it so that other ITxxxxE chips don’t work. I have a Gigabyte X570 Ultra and can only use ~half of the fan headers with lm_sensors. I haven’t been able to get them all working.

https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor/issues/251 Here’s some more info that may be useful.

Edit: or section 6.6 of the Arch wiki link you shared.

For me it was migrating my Arch install from EXT4 to ZFS. GRUB had to be configured in particular ways to get it to work with ZFS and I didn’t do it properly so it wouldn’t/couldn’t boot.

Then I updated ZFS to a version that wasn’t supported by GRUB yet so I chrooted into my installation to switch to Systemd-boot with Unified Kernel Images. Now I still can’t figure out how to add a boot entry for Windows. I followed the proper steps I think but selecting the Windows entry just reloads Systemd-boot.

Maybe that’s why Linux users enjoy old ThinkPads so much, you can just pull out the battery without opening the laptop.

Not using Arch but an Arch derivative automatically excludes you from getting any support from the Arch forums.

Not that it matters since they’ll just force you to read the documentation while pulling your hair anyway.

Care to elaborate? Sounds promising

And make sure to backup important files since resizing filesystems can go wrong.

Except if you upgrade ZFS pools to a newer version that’s not yet supported by Grub.

What I meant was, I have a Unifi router and was thinking of putting a dedicated firewall in front of it. Does that make any sense or would the firewall on the unify be just as capable? Before the Dream Machine that is my current router I was running an opnsense router with my Unifi switches behind it so I’m not super unfamiliar with it I guess.

This is really cool. I’ve been interested in running something like this. Does it make sense to have this as a dedicated firewall in front of my Unifi lan?

You can always try professional data recovery services. It just depends on how much the data is worth to you.

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This sounds really interesting, please share.