It’s only light if you configure it to be. It can be as heavy or as light as you want it to be, but it’s a good place to learn and experiment, as it’s comparatively trivial to switch stuff around. Arch wiki is probably the best Linux resource out there.

All major Linux distributions are roughly equally trivial to install these days. Mint is actually harder due to the relatively old kernel at least having more potential for lacking hardware support causing issues. The actual process is get similar for most of them.

Frankly the installation isn’t what is likely to cause issues for most people. But something breaking down the line, or wanting a new something (at adding app/functionality/running Windows program/…). How hard/easy it is for them to figure out how to fix that.

I’d suggest looking into TeamSpeak, like others have mentioned. Trivial to self host, too.

Edit: to be clear, this would cover the voice call aspect of discord, not the chat channels and other community tools. While it’s can do text chat, it’s more of a side feature rather than core. I didn’t think it does images or video, but it’s been a hot minute.

Who cares what it looks like as long as it works? They want to get 2fa sms in their desktop, I highly doubt “pretty” is high on the requirements…

Please stop recommending mint. These days now modern alternatives are just better, especially when they might want to game even just a bit. But it’s not just shut taking, mint is kind of stuck in the past for a lot of things.

I was actively avoiding EA for make years before this. Let’s just say this didn’t help. Imma grab some popcorn though.

We don’t have either of those, joining ad is still mandatory.

See my reply in this thread to artyom, I assume that’s what you’re looking for?

but you can do everything without it.

yes but why would you? There’s a reason we use GUIs, especially when new to a field (like virtualization).

I know it has been mentioned in passing a few times but I would highly recommend CachyOS. Just to emphasize how good that is.

Avoid Mint.

The 3$ isn’t a component price but also retail already.

Those hardware generators you mentioned have been around for at least 30 years. A TOTP app is just software that does the same thing as those hardware generators.

I’m aware, but you’re not getting the secret token that you’d need to put into your TOTP app. At least not that I know of. I also haven’t checked in a very long time if there are open source reimplementations of the photoTAN apps. They all got their own flavors, but it’s also just a slight variation on a theme (initialize app with qr-like secret, then scan a similar code as a challenge/response using that secret to generate token). Probably should check that at some point.

The actual hardware cost of these devices is actually minimal. Basically any wifi capable microcontroller, a camera and depending on implementation some storage (or a micro sd-card holder). So that price is only cheap in comparison to existing products.

For reference, said microcontroller with basic camera can be had for like 3$ or something.

They aren’t forced to lock them down, or prescribe any app store afaik. That’s the banks that do. Some lock it down, some not at all. But you’ll need some form of 2 factor “photoTAN” app. Unfortunately, common 2fa codes aren’t used (or allowed), I think this legislation is actually older than them becoming common.

And that’s quite all, they also offer hardware token generators. Not sure if they are required to, but i think so. You do have to pay for them once (20 or 30 bucks maybe?). In reality, this is somewhat impractical for a variety of reasons…

That’s impossible in the EU, they all do by law.

Many distros have screenshots bound to a shortcut by default. So it’s working by default, just not the default you know. Even Windows only introduced that shortcut a few years ago. The real shortcut (working without any program even in Windows) is the dedicated PrtScr button. If you hold alt, it’ll only capture the current window. It won’t be saved but put in the clipboard.

On KDE Ctrl+shift+s worked by default for me, but I don’t didn’t know if that comes from my distro or from KDE.

The 9 problems were in Windows. He’s going from Linux to Windows. Title is a bit easy to misread.

Sorry but the theoretical price of cells isn’t relevant to the consumer. The price of products containing them is. This thing costs currently on the official site 900€ (with some sort of sale going on). The Elite 100v2 with comparable capacity, but using LiFePo4 (included in the same current sale) costs just 550€. To add insult to injury, it also outperforms the Na model in nearly every aspect except sub-freezing performance (where it at least still works, but nowhere near normal spec values either). This includes an abysmal solar charging efficiency for the Na of roughly 50% at normal temperature. Somehow.

Again, once the price reflects the cell cost, this could be a very attractive option. At the moment, unless you’re into camping in sun-zero climates, it’s just a very bad deal.

Edit: to be clear the Na model also doesn’t have a better life expectancy, not according to the spec. Both models are specified to “over 4000 cycles”, not there is no percentage threshold specified for the Na model. The LiFePo4 model includes “to 80% capacity” in that definition. If this is specified somewhere for the Na model, I can’t find it.

The thing currently costs at least 50% more than the closest equivalent LiFePo4 from the same brand. The only real advantage seems to be it’s ability to handle sub freezing temperatures, but usability still drops dramatically (both capacity and available power delivery). Everything else is straight up worse in this one in direct comparison.

It’s only the first product, so it’ll most certainly get better. Also as numbers of products sold rise, costs fall. Once these are cheaper, that are a real choice.

First two seem fine. Just commenting to actively discourage Ubuntu, as it does many things bad or just weird.

If you expect someone to need a lot of real windows programs (wine) or games, look for something pre-configured to be hassle free. Like Nobara or Bazzite (both fedora based).