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What? I don't think he supports the US government or the IDF.

You will likely have to enter the bios/uefi setup with Del, F12 or something similar during boot and then search for the secure boot option and turn it off. Alternatively you may need to just properly set up the boot sequence and target the drive you want to actually boot from as the first boot option in the list.

Did you already install Linux Mint on a drive and your computer is now refusing to boot from it? Or are you actually at the step where you've made a bootable usb with the live iso and that's what is not booting?

Balena Etcher work pretty well on windows to create a bootable USB live iso.

The three base distros mentioned are ones that most other distros use as their base

E.g.

Debian -> Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS!

Fedora -> Bazzite, Nobara

Arch -> EndeavourOS, Manjaro, CachyOS

While you can customize the base distros however you want, think of these derivate distros as various prebuilts.

Most distros come with a package manager that allows you to download (software) packages from a centralized repository. Similar to say Microsoft store. Ubuntu was dissed for Canonical (the creators of Ubuntu) forcing their own package manager into it, which had various issues, while there were already well established package managers available.

Desktop Environment (DE) is what you see on your screen. Various elements control how the task bar or app bar behaves or what it looks like, what windows are stylized like, and how they behave etc. For someone coming from Windows, Linux Mint's Cinnamon DE or any distro with KDE will likely be most familiar experience, while those switching from MacOS, Gnome DE as the Fedora default is very similar.

Bazzite is a gaming focused distro based on Fedora.

Any questions remaining?

Those are likely shit games.

There's some information missing. What is saying "not bootable drive"? You should make a primary partition on the target drive.

Also, even if you don't have tpm, you may have some sort of secure boot preventing non-windows drives from booting.

Nicotine+ seems to be FOSS slsk. At least client side.

That's good though. It means half the internet wouldn't fail.

That work is still being done by someone in a data centre. But all these jobs went from in-house positions to the centres.

Or even fed false information by not AI.

This thread has set me on the path of getting two of my nerds over onto simplex or XMPP. Maybe matrix.

And me my '93 Bianchi.... oof it got stolen in 2018

I finished reading both articles and they are very heavy on conjecture. It does raise an eyebrow though, but still.

Yes, in an ideal world we would be using SimpleX, XMPP, or similar. However it was already hard enough getting ten non-tech contacts to switch to Signal. The barrier to entry is higher on other platforms or protocols.