Have you tried changing what the applets do when you click? Most of the time you can set whether it should create a new instance, cycle windows or raise or lower existing ones from the applet settings. See if changing that could help?
I use XFCE/Budgie (flick between the two) so not too familiar with cinnamon.
To be fair, most users are just gonna go the new user route. Download the Fedora media writer, set it to download and flash Fedora, boot to the stick and install.
I was a decent ways into my Linux experience before I learnt about Ventoy, but I don't use it as I prefer flashing a whole ISO. There's no hand-holding once you leave Mac or Windows, so you have to count points of failure yourself, Ventoy wasn't worth it.
I suggest you take the normal new user path, and after that start trying things. Learn to walk before you try running :)
Really depends on what you want your system to be, if you want a lightweight system choose a barebones distro like Arch, Gentoo, Void or any server spin such as Fedora Server. Then, during installation you only get what you need. If you are going lightweight you'd probably want something like Sway WM, Hyprland or XFCE.
If you don't care for minimalism, then choosing a distro focused on a graphical interface such as Fedora Workstation will be much better for you, since that distro will be maintained with the idea of users using whatever DE it is, the distro maintainers probably contribute to upstream of the DE too. Support will also be easier since you'll find that these distros, while maybe having smaller communities, those communities ask more questions and get more solutions due to the Linux inexperience.
I ran SSHFS for a while maybe half a year ago? I quite liked it cause we obviously already use SSH so setup was quick and easy, performance was good too. Then I learnt it's no longer maintained so switched to NFS.
NFS is good, if you aren't accessing from Windows I would go for that. Setup is pretty simple too, just change /etc/exports and a few permissions or ownerships (after installing the package obviously) then start the systemd service.
Can't comment on Kerberos, but considering NFS popularity I can't imagine it being difficult.
Seems like most of the tools I'm finding are CLIs, so iPhones or just phones in general are definitely a no-go I'm afraid.
If you listen to popular artists, you could try Soulseek. Not sure on how easy it is to access it on an iPhone though, I've never owned any Apple devices since I went off them at a young age so I'm really firing off into the dark.
That was looking really good, however it doesn't seem to download into separate sub-directories which is rather annoying. I'll keep my eye on that though, thanks :D
Grammar checking my properly written-up Wiki entries from notes of my Obsidian vault. Or finding names and acronyms, but I prefer to do that myself if possible.
To get a scale like that, I would just leave it up to extrapolation of the fundamental traits of your world. If my world was scorched, but I only write about a couple cities, you can imagine everything inbetween is a fiery hellscape too.
It's your universe, not AI's nor a professional's. Try to do as much as you can by yourself, if the world your building fits with you as a person, this should be easier than it sounds.
P.S - Proc-gen is not necesserily AI, but an algorithm. A set of rules to follow with given aguments for variation. This is why games such as No Man's Sky, that heavily use proc-gen, end up with repeating landscapes or planets. The algorithm was given similar arguments. AI is far more complex however, closer to how a biological brain determines something.
I pay for Proton Unlimited so I use Proton VPN. Getting port forwarding to work on Linux is a bit of a hassle but they have steps on their website. It's hardly any slower than my internet connection, but that's because I'm on the paid servers. The free servers are rather slow. They have a graphical client for Windows and Linux.
Proton Unlimited is €12.99/month. The VPN has a good number of features and you get the whole Proton suite with it and 500GB of storage. You can pay for just the VPN which is cheaper if you don't want the rest of Proton.
It's not as simple as mounting the system read-only, as the system can change. However a reboot is required to switch to the new system, a lot like NixOS. I guess the biggest advantage for going Atomic vs read-only mounting is support, as the number of people using Silverblue is a lot more than the people using your suggestion.
I like XFCE, I've daily driven it before. But I like a modern feel to my desktop, such as animations, semi-frequent updates and the like. XFCE doesn't really do any of that, unless you switch out the WM but then you lose a lot of the minimalism as to why you'd go for XFCE. Budgie isn't quite as lightweight but it isn't far off to be honest. On a fresh Arch install (That used the archinstall method) I measured 640MB of memory usage when sat on the desktop. Therefore after weighing things up Budgie won me over from XFCE.
My view on that is more as a precaution on general Linux adoption. If your dad is going to use a distro that employs Flatpak, such as Fedora, then I would coach him a bit on that as he wouldn't know that Flatpaks are sandboxed. For example if I gave a friend of mine that uses Windows a Flatpak system, they might be confused why Steam can't see their games drive.
I get specific with Atomic because Atomic systems are very new, they use a lot of in-development technology and are subject to massive changes. New users may take this as a trope across Linux and be rocked off the boat. Obviously not saying a new user strictly cannot use Atomic, but again I highly recommend coaching.
Pagy looks alright however I see no free tier, but to be honest I'm thinking of sticking with Lemmy. Why?
Decent Userbase.
No need to direct people to another platform.
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FOSS.
Already use it.
I mean really, what would a separate platform give me? Looking more professional on a CV? I value practicalities over abstract concepts like that, so that shows I'm resourceful. I guess the only thing is would people be bothered by seeing infrequent posts in their feeds? But then a good chunk of the global population use platforms such as TikTok so I guess there's acceptance for feed pollution...
Oh, and Lemmy is free. Of course though if I do continue this hobby I'll donate to dbzer0 as much as I can.
Have you tried changing what the applets do when you click? Most of the time you can set whether it should create a new instance, cycle windows or raise or lower existing ones from the applet settings. See if changing that could help?
I use XFCE/Budgie (flick between the two) so not too familiar with cinnamon.