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I'm inclined to agree. I don't care if Linux is popular. I use Linux because it's what I like. Besides, if it was really popular then can you imagine how much more support we'd have to do? The forum would be inundated with newbies, overwhelming those of us who support them. It'd be crazy!

I use Secure Boot. It verifies that I'm booting what I say I'm booting. So, there's that... It doesn't do anything more than that. Assuming you're booting what you installed, you'll never hear a peep from it. It may add a millisecond or two to the boot process. I'm okay with that. Edited to...

We've been claiming that X-year is the year of the Linux On The Desktop for like 25 years or more. But, it could happen.

That's rather unusual but glad you got it sorted.

If my memory is correct, MacOS is built on NeXTSTEP (which they now own) which uses the Mach kernel and BSD. It is still a Unix-compliant OS, much like Linux is POSIX-compliant.

As an aside, I too didn't do my intro thread until after I was a moderator. Though, that was quite a bit less than three years.

Yeah, I don't worry about those sort of exploits. I might patch 'em just because I can, but they're not a pressing concern for me. I don't even care if they have to be on my local network. I'm gonna notice you sitting in the driveway and my nearest neighbor is so far away that some folks...

I will point out that you should read the release notes. Sometimes the BIOS updates contain security fixes. I consider those generally important enough to install.

In the US, they can't charge you extra for using cash - as far as I understand. However, they can give you a discount for using one or the other, which is pretty much the same thing as charging you extra for using one or the other. Because of credit processing fees, retailers are allowed to...

"Please get out of the way if you can't lend a hand." In my youth, I'd go to protests and this was a favorite. It's also remarkably easy to play on the guitar. So, there's that. I was quite young at the time. There is some irony in that I'd later enlist in the military.

I've done some work for the DoD. I served eight years in the Marines but would later work as a contractor on a few projects. In fact, I was on a Navy base on 9/11. My employee and myself were escorted off the base and weren't allowed to grab our gear. It would be just about six months before we...

That sort of depends. IF you have gobs of RAM then you'll load everything into RAM and (once booted and applications started) it will run quite well. This can be done with less RAM, but see the folks who use things like Puppy. Startup is going to be slower than even an HDD, but once you're...

Don't forget to edit your first post and mark this as solved. Heh... It's one of those "bear necessities of life"... (At least you'll know what I'm on about.)

That it does it automatically is one of the primary reasons for using a tiling WM? Yes? No? That's the whole 'tiling' part, unless I'm mistaken. Well, one aspect of tiling.

With some effort you can make a 'persistant' USB version of Mint. It retains things like installed applications and settings changes and still runs in the live environment.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think businesses in the US must accept cash - but that's brick and mortar businesses only, of course. Our currency says something about 'for all debts, public and private'. They can put a limit on how much change you can pay with, but I think they all must accept cash...

Keep in mind that I'm not a gamer and have done zero testing. This might contain the needed files - and it's 'acceptable' as it's at archive.org, which is recognized as an internet library of the LoC in the US. https://archive.org/details/pharaohcleopatrausarereleasealt The Archive is a...

Also, is it possible to legally acquire those original files? If so, we could add that to the thread as a resource. Maybe it's at archive.org? They have a lot of old game disk images.

This. I thought I made it clear. (I've never needed to do anything with EFI for this process.)