It might not be autism, it might be just lacking context as to what they mean. The kid is likely very young so they might not know what alphabetical order means. It’s a reasonable guess given the lack of explanation in the worksheet.

GNU does NOT look like the others…

The key was published in the files. It’s not suspicious to use the key given that it’s public info; it’s not illegal to read the released files.

I think the point of the reddit screenshot is to show what Windows users are putting up with, not to share the meme itself.

10 years old is 2016. That’s not that old. I still have multiple devices from 2017 going strong, and they don’t feel old.

Use trash-put and trash-cli.

Security and difference of design philosophy. I run OpenBSD on one of my machines and I enjoy it. It has better software availability than I expected and it feels like a neater, more minimal system than Linuxes. Definitely falls into the “hobbyist computing” category rather than something I’d recommend for a practical use case, but it’s fun.

I think it’s just clickbait/being hyperbolic. I imagine the videos themselves are just normal tutorials or intros to the topic.

Why can’t I have a file in two folders? Why does one have to be a “reference”?

You can do this… Hard links. Neither file is more “canonical” than the other.

Just do full disk encryption + autologin. Done

Why not? Of course people who make something (in this case, a programming language) are going to promote what they make and share praise they’ve received. It’s a pretty normal thing to do. They’re not trying to obscure the fact that they’re the Rust Foundation—it’s on the Rust blog.

That’s different to developing software. As a developer you are in large part responsible for ensuring that your software doesn’t compromise your users’ security. It’s reasonable to not want to distribute software that may contain malware or just shitty code that is full of vulnerabilities or bugs.

I would not say that reading a book is the way to go about it. At least the way I learned was just through using my computer like normal, and naturally I ended up using the terminal for some things e.g. updating packages, doing simple operations like moving files around, etc. I don’t think it’s a good idea to specifically try to “learn the command line” as a directed/targeted goal, because like you said you could end up learning a bunch of stuff you never use.

I thought it was not recommended to run on bare metal? There are some other obscure OSes that can run fine on bare metal (although Serenity is not really obscure in the foss space, only in the mainstream)

Guest Wi-Fi is common for that reason. I’ve got guest Wi-Fi set up so that guests can access the internet but they can’t access my LAN.

Do you have the relevant graphics driver installed? I get that error (“failed to connect to a wayland server”) when I haven’t installed the right graphics drivers. You can also check the logs for anything more useful—maybe use a live environment if the installed system isn’t working.

From the sounds of it, it’s just a hobby project for fun for OP. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing something just for the sake of it.

I didn’t mean it as nitpicking. I was just responding to you?

I think FDE is different to full partition. If your home partition is encrypted but not your root partition, that’s not FDE. I would say FDE is when the partition that you mount to / is encrypted.

I think the average user wouldn’t care, Linux just attracts nerds. And I think it’s totally fine and even good that people care how their computer works—it shows that users care about their software working for them, rather than just wanting to go along with whatever is given to them. I think a lot of the positions people take about these things are very silly, but I’d still prefer someone to have a silly opinion about X11/Wayland or pid 1 than to not have an opinion at all. It’s nice that users are being actively involved in deciding what they want their system to be; it’s a nice change from the average user who’s like “well microsoft is screenshotting my screen every 5 seconds and feeding it into copilot now, guess I’m going along with that”.