Yeah I know… I have skipped Mint this time and got her on Windows so her son that lives next door can help her out. Next upgrade cycle I might think of something

That is the kinda things you can do when you can be with the person when you do the switch. I need to set it up on my own and ship it to her

Nothing can addire you that micro$oft will not make that totally impossible in a future release

I wish I could do that… I need to set the computer us and ship it to her… if I was around I could take the laptop for a spin

The new Android makes it considerably more complicated to install apps that are not notarized

Are you counting in the cost of running on prem? Hardware, aircon, building security, electricity, hardware tech support?

That likely happens yes

LMDE comes with some nice packages that just make your life easier. It is basically Debian but… with sane defaults

LDME does not supports PPAs

If you leave alone the haters, Ubuntu is doing great. Mint LDME also fantastic if you wish to have a rock solid base.

Cast it into the fire!!

Yeah Futurama

Very good read. Thanks for sharing!

Looks sick!

But considerably different compared to Obsidian in a lot of small ways. It was a deal breaker for me

The results are still useful today. There are a few basic measures of security that simply do not change and allows you to understand if your setup is secure enough to, say, run a bastion host or not

not at all, it exactly the same process. Same level of difficulty. Given you do it on an intel Mac, Mx series are a royal pain

Very easy to flash Linux on an intel based Mac ;)