I am working in company where about 35% of users are on Windows, 40% on Linux and 25% on Mac. In Linux, official way to use MS Office is web apps, but Libreoffice is quite heavily used too.

How to know if you are old:

First thing which comes to mind from DDR is not game about dancing or computer memory, but Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany

Excellent news.

Congrats for a good working system. Lenovo professional range laptops are usually working quite well with Linux, just use recent enough Linux version.

Wild guess. Libspa version has changed and thus its path too. You will have to put (probsbly new version) of aac.so file to new libspa directory.

Yeah, it might require new one if dependencies have been changed.

Note. Before rebooting, regenerate initramfs for all kernel versions. I am not in debian, but dpkg-reconfigure initramfs-tools might do it.

What filesystem is in use where lotro files are stored?

I am a Finn. How I can tell if I am delightfully or some other way weird?

Here I take micro-retirement of 4 weeks every summer, plus one week in wintertime.

Vim + vimwiki is what I use, with session saving plugin. That is all I need. For syncing, I use either git or syncthing.

I think their vision is solid. I just think there are gaps in following their vision. Wheres the “create new empty file”? Where’s the “open folder in terminal”? Why do I need to install bunch of bloatware to change more than 2 options?

On my Gnome Files, there is option to “Open in terminal” and create new files (from templates, which were set up by default on my distro). All by default without any extensions or anything.

If computers are in same network, even with different ip addresses, they still can see all broadcast and multicast traffic. This means for example dhcp.

If you fully trust your computers, and are sure that no external party can access any of them, you should be fine. But if anyone can gain access to any of your computers, it is trivial to gain access and sniff traffic in all networks.

If you need best security, multiple switches and multiple nics are unfortunately only really secure solution.

Luks FDE, and install dropbear-initramfs, configure ssh authorized_keys and rebuild initramfs. Then you can access initramfs via ssh to type luks password.

If you just rename the dir, and then find all broken symlinks in your system?

find . -xtype l

Use gnome extensions.

Gtile for moving windows around using hotkeys.

Set keyboard launchers to focus or launch apps. Usually you can define command line parameter for launcher to not open new app window.

Extension Auto Move Windows allows moving app windows around on launch.

I had laptop running Ubuntu 16.04, which was running for 2273 days without reboots or anything. It was located in safe place so not even security updates were installed during that time. And it was still completely fine after all these days (little bit over 6 years). It was finally shut down when there was electricity break, and its battery failed, and I decided that it was time to retire it.

There of course were tons of updates available then, but no one forces you to install them. and in Debian system instead of Ubuntu, there will be lot less, their release policy is much stricter.

Have you ever upgraded the Ubuntu laptop? Cause that’s my main gripe with Ubuntu. Server upgrades work, desktop upgrades never did for me.

I wonder about this. I have been running Ubuntu on one of my laptops for years, and updated it several times withouth hitch. All the way from around 18.10 to 22.04 (non-lts, so I upgraded to every release) until the laptop was replaced.

Usually the breakage happens if one has tons of shitty third-party repos and thus will get package conflicts when upgrading. And those are solved by removing/replacing all software installed from those repos and then after upgrade reinstalling them again if needed.

They are still on the ship, and cannot get to land because of the lack of visas.

Do you mean upgrade or reinstall?

I have done release upgrades in multiple occasions all the way from 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04. Usually they work fine, but of course back up your stuff first. When doing it with release-upgrade all your stuff is of course kept just like before.

Basically just:

sudo apt update

sudo apt dist-upgrade

sudo reboot

sudo do-release-upgrade

This will upgrade to 22.04. After upgrade just repeat process to upgrade to 24.04

The C64 Mini and C64 Maxi are readily available today and affordably priced, making spare parts easily accessible.

If those work well enough for them, I cannot see any benefit of upgrading.