I really hope Link is going to break some pots.

I am using Tiling Shell

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7065/tiling-shell/

Puppet / Foreman / Ansible for managing servers, and probably for workstations too.

Checkmk / Nagios / Zabbix for monitoring.

FreeIPA for user management.

I think it is because in Ubuntu, Gnome is more common than KDE. It just seems that KDE people are more vocal in their opinions.

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.