Are you really comfortable with ansible? The only reason to use it for your case is that you want to learn it. Time you spend writing a playbook and testing it will be much longer than installing everything manually on a single machine. And it will be impossible to reuse it if you consider moving to not debian based distro later.
bizdelnick
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If you want a very simple editor, try avidemux.
If you disable graphical.target, no processes related to GUI will launch and consume any resources other than disk space.
No way, reinstall.
If even file owner is not preserved (it is not always root, espetially in /var), you likely lost files' extanded attributes an, maybe, also permissions. Without them your system won't work normally.
Then, contents of these directories must be consistent with other ones. E. g. /var contains a package manager data about packages you installed. If you installed/removed anything after creating a backup, information about this will be lost.
If you created the backup while system was working, some files (espetially under /var, again) could be changed during that process, and this also makes such backup unusable. Every sysadmin knows that to create a database backup by copying files, dbms must be stopped.
In future, think about restoration before planning a backup and test if this possible immediately after it is done.
You are right. I expected to see a boring list of most frequently used options from /etc/sudoers, but WOW! The author is very brave guy!
Some users experienced accidential growth of /var/log. Some users experienced accidential growth of /var/cache. Some users experienced accidential growth of /var/lib. Some users experienced accidential growth of ~/.xsession-errors. Shall I continue?
Does every user need to begin his day checking all that places? No, he does not. It is waste of time. Such situations are extremely rare. If you are paranoid, check df to see if you have enough free space, and only if it unpredictably shrinked begin to ivestigate which directory has grown.
Check? Why?
% du -sh ~/.cache
1,6G /home/bizdelnick/.cache
I don't remember if I ever cleaned it up. Probably a couple years ago when I moved my old HDD to new PC with freshly installed OS. It does not grow accidentally. Only in some very rare cases. As well as some other dirs under ~ and var. If it is a critical system, set up monitoring of free filesystem space. If not, you will notice if it becomes full (I can't remember when this happened to me last time, maybe ~15 years ago when some log file started to grow because of endless error messages).
You don't have to clean your ~/.cache every now and then. You have to figure out which program eats so much space there, ensure that it is not misconfigured and file a bugreport.
You can install any general purpose distro (debian, opensuse or one of that others suggested) with a lighwwight DE (LXQT, Xfce, MATE) and it will work well. However when you run a browser and open several tabs with heavy websites it will become very slow. It does not matter what distro you use. You need 8G+ of RAM for comfortable web serfing nowadays.
Don't use Fedora in prod. Dixi.
Both are useless toys for newbie sysadmins who think their job is sitting and looking at list of processes.
The main thing you are doing wrong is reading howto articles in the web. Most of them are written by newbies who did the thing they describe for the first time, got something likely working and want to describe this for themselwes an for the other world. This does not mean they did everything right, and howtos usually contain numerous mistakes. Better read official documentation. This will take longer time but you will understand what you do. I don't know if Mint has GUI tools to configure samba server. I would better edit config file manually, it is more or less simple.