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Honestly that's a tempting idea... but then I remember that installing a fresh Debian on my desktop takes me 1h tops, swapping my /home directory and configuring few key software, in particular the browser, too so... for me, not worth it for now.

Also in practice maybe I make a fresh install once a year, at most. Otherwise it's quick Debian on remote machines, RPi, etc and then it's pretty much per machine configuration.

That being said if I were to do it I'd look at rsync with a set of ssh keys and Docker/podman for containerization of whatever services serve the data, potentially behind a VPN so that I can use it all remotely yet more securely. In practice though... that ends up being a centralized Web server, which I already use as https://fabien.benetou.fr/ and that's been good enough for me for years, more than a decade now actually.

Can you please elaborate a bit more on the use case and/or software you have in mind because maybe I don't properly understand your needs?

So... do it?

Now to the question which distro, honestly it does not matter YET!

You probably don't even know what a distro is (no offense) but what you did highlight clearly are the needs, namely :

• playing games
• popular
• not Mint because somehow it breaks (would be VERY important to understand why though)

... so that actually narrows things down quite a bit.

The most popular distribution are the easiet to find (I'm on Debian and SteamOS so I use Arch BTW) and that's a safe choice indeed. Playing games does not narrow things down much as most distro, if not all, do not prevent against playing game and IMHO the optimization specific to gaming are pretty much pointless in most cases.

Your edit point that you are trying a distribution already so yes, please, do go for it. I do suggest though that WHEN things go wrong, like it did with Mint, you take the time to understand WHY. This in itself will help you to either switch to another distribution and arguably more importantly what even is a distribution and finally which one of the remaining ones (if you do actually switch rather than fix) are more appropriate for you.

Finally my last recommendation is to back up your data. That's what IMHO make the difference between having fun distro hopping versus pulling hair out stressing that your last game save, or work notebooks, will not be deleted.

Have fun learning!

And here is transfer from my Web based wallet to my mobile wallet, again with the testing currency :

I warmly recommend anybody who didn't use GNU Taler yet to do so right now, for free, in minutes :

GNU Taler provides a well done demonstration https://demo.taler.net/ that one can try right here in the browser, going from a virtual bank to their wallet and buying items in "KUDOS". It does address quite a few points raised in different discussions here.

For others who might be interested, found https://tutorials.taler.net/dev/merchant-api/introduction#video-tutorial from the merchant standpoint.

Thanks again, if the wallet is "filled" by a bank transfer then I imagine anything able to do so, e.g. my random European bank that allow IBAN transfer, would suffice as long as my wallet itself has an IBAN or that the service provider hosting that wallet has one and then "store" the then "money" for it and allow me to spend it with other GNU Taler wallets.

Anyway I'll explore through a recent technical talk indeed, good suggestion.

Thank you for taking the time to explain.

I don't necessarily have to wait, it's more a generic advice.

Can you please expand though, as I'm curious, why you won't wait and you plan to use it?

Can you also comment on my follow up question, namely what are the limitations at the moment, both technically and legally? Basically does not living in Switzerland make a difference anyway for users?

Also... I'm wondering what that means in practice because if it's online infrastructure then... it can be operating in Switzerland but both sellers and buyers, remotely or face-to-face, can rely on it to exchange money.

So... what are the limitations at the moment, both technically and legally?

Shouldn't we gather feedback first from that experiment before scaling up?

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I wouldn't build anything significant on the RPi Zero and instead would try to build elsewhere, namely on a more powerful machine with the same architecture, or cross-build as others suggested.

That being said, what's interesting IMHO with container image building is that you can rely on layers. So... my advice would be to find the existing image supported by your architecture then rely on it to layer on top of it. This way you only build on the RPi what is truly not available elsewhere.