cybervegan

Me. I am typing this without looking at the keyboard. Learnt at college on an old school electric typewriter as part of my computer science course in the mid 1980s.

Not going to happen. :-D

Yes as far as I've found so far, the features track quite well, and I'm really aiming to get proficient with the standard interface. I've found a few minor differences, but I tried stock Mint (which is Ubuntu 20.04 based) for a while, and I didn't want to go backwards from Trixie (the current Stable Debian version) so I opted for LMDE which is based on Trixie. I use Debian Stable because of the "2-year cycle" (that's why it's called stable); Because stock Mint tracks the latest LTS release of Ubuntu, it's actually a fair bit more out of date than Debian at this stage, and the next Mint version, based on the new LTE Ubuntu, isn't slated to come out until December.

So far it's not been too bad for a hybrid system - I have had a couple of issues, but this is most likely attributable to being a hybrid. I've found that I like Cinnamon, which stock Debian does not (as far as I know) support yet - I have used MATE for about 15 years because I don't get on with Gnome 3 or KDE. You get all the nice things about Mint that I found impressive when I tested it - the printer and scanner support is very good, and the configuration utilities are quite reminiscent of Windows ones (good for new users, but I personally don't care). Still not sure if I'm going to stick with it long-term, but happy with it for now - I largely stopped distro-hopping when I switched to MATE.

I know right. I had a right game reinstalling Win 10 on a lenovo netbook - I had to put a supported, unmanaged version on it for installing lenovo dock firmware updates. For some reason, the default graphics mode was totally corrupted - almost unreadable, and rotated 90 degrees. Once the installer had finished, I had to manually install the right driver for the graphics hardware, and that fixed it. Took hours - total amateurs. For shits and giggles, after I'd finished with with the firmware updates, I installed Mint on it - and it was flawless, and done in half an hour. This is the way to do it!

No we can't. I hate football (soccer for you USians) with a passion greater than those that love it, and I can't avoid it, even though I desperately try.

Favorite: Debian Stable (For my uses, it was the least trouble)

First: Slackware (1995, installed from floppy disks, also a short stretch in 2009)

Current: Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) (Using because I need to support users on stock Mint)

Distro you liked the least: Novell SuSE (Used in a corporate setting)

Distro you want to use in the future: Unknown

Distro you used for the longest time: Debian Stable (15 years)

Distro everyone likes but I don’t: Ubuntu

Honorable mention: DietPi (RaspberryPi and SBC focused OS)

Over time, I've used quite a lot of different distros: Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise, Scientific, CENTOS, Fedora, Mandrake, Damn Small, Puppy, CrashBang, Raspbian, Bazzite, to name just the ones I can remember off the top of my head now.

After a quick listen and skip, can confirm, that would do the job :-)

Interestingly, the music I prefer to listen to is more rocky - Punk/Grunge/Ska/Folk/Dub.

I acquired my love of psytrance in the early noughties when I used to do henna art at festivals in the UK. We got friendly with a couple who ran a psytrance CD stall, and were very often pitched right next door, so I spent many a weekend doing henna art with their music blasting out of their PA as a backing track. One CD that was popular at the time was Virtual Memory by Alchemy, but I seldom knew who I was listening to - it never seemed to matter. Worked well for getting into "the zone" though, and it's not distracting because I don't find myself trying to listen to the (usually non-existent) lyrics.

Psytrance or Dubstep. Something without much (or any) lyrics but with a strong bassline, maybe a bit glitchy.

Not used graylog, but if that's what it's for, it should be a lot better than manually checking logs.

Interested to know if this is for international travel, or just within your country's borders? I would be concerned with this going through airport security, whether in carry-on or checked luggage - x-rays can damage electronics, and the potentially suspicious appearance of electronics to the non-technical could cause problems.

Monitor your logs with a network monitoring tool like Nagios, Icinga, etc. You can set filters for alerts you are genuinely interested in, and email the alerts to your ticketing system or sysads.