Recent content by The Duck

I don't think bitlocker is a stupid choice in this day and age for laptop and mobile devices as long as the bitlocker user has provided for themselves a backup replacement key / device.

I've never used it although I've known a few who have and lost the usb key and was unable to get onto their laptop computer. I wound up changing the HDD with a new HDD and then reinstalled the Windows OS which is what they wanted to do.

The more you use the more you learn and the terminal is nothing to be afraid of as it is very useful.

This will give you more info and then some. sudo inxi -Fxrzc0 -v6 Output will look like this. Here's you another one. You will find the output in your home folder marked. lxhw.text sudo lshw -sanitize > lshw.txt

I don't know how old you are I'm in my 70s. Consider the generation of today. I grew up in a simple time black and white television one telephone in a house that everyone used. One family automobile that we all who could drive used and if we wanted a automobile we got a job saved our money...

Ya can't have positives without negatives it's just against the laws of electricity. Negatives can be a good thing as long as the negatives are not condescending. Negatives show where faults and weaknesses may exist and a user can address possible faults and issues. I really don't care for...

Agreed and it may be heading that direction imo.

I'll bet Microsoft has a team of lawyers on the payroll and with the money and power and control Microsoft has they can for the most get out of whatever they get themselves into.

Kinda sounds like the same thing that Snaps does. Ain't trying to start no argument.

I don't trust any browsers or search engines nowadays seems they've all been busted fibbing about how they don't sell user personal data. And no I don't have any links to back up what I say but they are out there if you look. I do use DuckDuckGo as I've used it for years and just like it.

Yep the last few Ubuntu releases and Ubuntu flavors releases have increases in iso size due to the default Snaps. Limiting your Snaps backups of previous installed Snaps to two will keep the HDD or SSD space under control. Yes there is regular maintenance required with Snaps. Here's a script...

You my friend get the cute smiley face.

With only 4.0GB of memory I'd install a Linux distro with a lighter desktop environment such as Xfce. Gnome desktop environment requires a lot of system resources and will use up that 4.0GB of memory.

Have a read. https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/security.html

As long as you download and use the software from the distros repository or a know reliable source you shouldn't encounter any badware leastwise I never have.