Nothing in live week ever be 100% guaranteed to work forever. You'll be fine, mostly.

1. Yes, Live Linux system and regular install are practically identical. It's the same software. Everything should work. There's reason to assume Wifi will suddenly break. (Actually, Live systems differ a lot from a traditional install, but you can assume that what worked on the live system will work later. It is the same software after all. Same kernel including all drivers.)

2. Keep this USB you have just booted from. This is the tool to recover if things should go south.

3. You can keep Windows, usually, when installing Linux. The process requires "shrinking the Windows partition" and a boot loader that can handle both. Pretty standard; the installer should guide you.

4. You can totally use a phone to google how to fix your Linux.

Have fun with Linux Mint. It's the Just works Linux.

"Friends of socialist china"

With so much division in the world, unification just sounds right.

Yes, what's strange? This is the beta release or release candidate or pre-release snapshot for a version that will enjoy long-term support.

Same in Jerboa. Extremely annoying.

I have a fanless, reasonably-light linux laptop from tuxedo. Unfortunately, it seems their current models are more powerful, more heavy and probably not fanless.

Did you consider dell xps or system76?

Just to commenting to keep the knowledge: There are other projects that can de-drm audible. Amazon probably knows this and tolerates it. In fact, a long time ago all downloads on Linux did not have DRM. Those days are gone, but this https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli should work.

As soon as you have 'activation bytes' many tools can play and convert the downloads.

Well, the list looked like those packages should most definitely in the core Canonical repos. Pretty standard libraries.

==    same (after magic)
===   same and same type (in Javascript)
====  same and same type and same actual type (in the backend before conversion to JSON)
===== same and same type and same actual type and same desired type (what the customer wanted)

That sounds interesting.

The F-droid app is 5 years old and I don't think my nextcloud server has this app, but it goes in the right direction.

That sounds fun. Look at those apes hitting each other with stones. And nuclear bombs. How playful!

Still broken?

Will all posts eventually propagate or is everything since 0.19 semi-lost, i.e. on available locally or to some instances??

Well, I'd file this as innovation. Innovation is trying and failing. It's an experiment. And I'm okay with this.

Is it wasteful to have KDE and Gnome? Why don't they give up and merge with each other? Did we really need systemd? Or docker? And why Wayland when every single distro is on X and every single application is on X?

Ubuntu started as a Gnome-based distribution and it is was better than the competition on the desktop at the time. Or good enough. It got popular.

Personally, I wasn't a big fan of Unity or Gnome 3, but it worked. I found snap totally weird and against how things should be on a Linux system. But snap updates (while still annoying) have solved problems with deb-based updates of browser ("Quit all running firefox or you'll experience problems").

Maybe I'd like Debian more. After all I came from Debian to Ubuntu. But it's not worth to make a fuzz.

Austerity, well. They want subsidies on Diesel.

Ubuntu is nice. Apt/DEB works as they should. Some default apps, mostly browsers, are snaps now, but this does not bother you at all. You were getting them from your distro anyway.

Flatpak and AppImages work just fine if you need them.

The Ubuntu desktop (any flavour) just works. Others are different, but nothing is bad about Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is trying new things, proprietary to their ecosystem, e.g. Unity or snap. On the big picture, those are experiment. Ubuntu is still Linux.

The community reaction to snap is overblown. So Canonical developed something you don't like? Ignore it. This has mostly been a waste of time for them.

(Yes, maybe that dev time would be better spent on flatpak or open-source apps. But that's their time. I'm not paying Ubuntu developers, so can I really complain?)

Same for me, with Play store version. Clearing cache did not help.

mobility

= automotive = fossil fuels

"Tja" as we say in German.

Yes, that's my understanding. A normal user cannot do this. (And of course, an attacker shouldn't not control a local user in the first place.)

Physical access is also a risk, but physical access trumps everything.

This is also my understanding, at least of you keep the EFI partition.