Nimrod

Thanks for the reply. As I said below: when I flip on the wireguard toggle in my phone's app, it appears as if I am connected, but it seems something is off. I am not seeing the "last handshake on" line, and when I try to navigate to the internet (for example 'whatismyip', my browser app times out. So it seems my requests are trying to go through the VPN, but they are getting stuck.

Okay, I thought something seemed a bit odd about what I was doing. So for my use case, I only need to access my home network with my phone, or my laptop. So all I need is a wireguard server on my home network (currently the case, running wg-easy), and the wireguard client on my phone and laptop.

I have that happening right now. And strangely when I am connected to my home wifi I am seeing the "last handshake" information in the wireguard app. But as soon as I turn off wifi and attempt to use my cell network, that line disappears from the app.

Although the frontend webpage for wg-easy still shows my phone connected.

Lets pretend it is connected. You're saying I could simply type "192.168.3.69/login" into my phone's browser, and I would see the mineos login page as if I was on my home's wifi?? Because that would literally be perfect.

That is incredibly true. I try to automate everything I can. That’s where laziness is a superpower.

That sounds pretty slick. I envy your scripting prowess. You really have to know your system top to bottom to be able to boil it all down like that.

I’m just beginning my journey into this whole space, and it’s really interesting how many different ways people have to deal with the same basic things.

I’m also incredibly lazy, so maybe more scripting is in my future! Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed reply!

I really like this strategy. I currently use proxmox for my home server needs, but I am curious what you use now instead?

Interesting! Looks pretty slick. Might be a nice stepping stone into that world. This chromebook is so old that it could be a perfect playground for this sorta thing. I don’t have any important files/apps or anything on it that I’m afraid of damaging or being without. Thanks for the suggestion.

After some serious googling, it looks like gestures is a feature that really only exists in the "luxury" DEs. There is something called Touchegg and Touche that can add them to others, but I'm not far along enough to know if it will do what I want it to.

I just tried debian with Xfce, and it's pretty fast, but I REALLY love using gestures! It makes my tiny screen feel way bigger.

I'll be honest, I'm a bit scared of Arch, but this might be the push I need to give it a go. What's the worst that happens?

Can you add trackpad gestures to Arch?

Yeah, you don't have to remove it (I didn't when I tried this 10 years ago) but if you don't you always have to hit ctrl+l when it boots, or it could get stuck looking for ChromeOS. The hardware is so old now, I don't really care if I brick it. I'm just learning about linux by goofin.

Looks interesting! Seems it pantheon is built on top of GNOME, so wouldn’t that make it a bit heavy for my 2GB RAM beater? Or is there really not that much difference between the different DEs with regard to resource usage?