Just in case and I know this may sound like a duh type question and I apologize if you have already exhausted it. But you have tried installing it with wine and play on linux?

This made me look up freedom box.

I use tile but can’t say its privacy respecting necessarily.

I consider myself reasonable enough that im pretty ok with dropping a place that bans me. Its like I don’t expect to be thrown out of bars or restaurants I use because I don’t like go crazy yelling at staff or punching people.

I get it and I have felt similarly. I get annoyed that people don’t put in the recycling right but then I also look at the recyclying rules and realize the company that does it is pretty much setting it up to fail and are itching to just dump it. Its hard to reduce, reuse, recycle and I look at the folks who can’t return a grocery cart and realize they are not likely trying. My economic situation prevents me from having as energy efficient lifestyle as I would like (being able to purchase or remodel my place on more efficient lines). It sucks but im going out trying to be as least responsible for this mess as I can be.

I use zorin and hope to get off my but and play with bazzite. quite simply zorin is the lazy distribution. its an ubuntu respin that has a windows feel and is out of the box. so comes with all the software some could generically expect to use. play and edit video and audio, burn disks, make documents, browse the web, get more software in the gui, wine with play on linux allowing for a lot of windows stuff to be run. That being said its gnome based. I did finally install kde to have easy snap to and such. Its great for having something that once you install is fully functional for 99% of what the average person does on a computer. Again its lazy. Its linux so you can add stuff and configure as you want but if you don’t the average user will find it more capable than a fresh windows or osx install. The two big downsides is as an out of the box it installs a bunch of stuff by default. So it is by no means a lean distro. The other is its not a gaming distro with proton. So I am guessing if someone wants gaming they should go with a gaming distro (thus my long term intent to play with bazzite) and if they want to have a minimal amount of sofware install it would be good to go with a lean distro. But for install and go super lazy I just want my computer to do the things anyone would expect it to do. Its great. Oh one last bad part from your post. Its based on ubuntu lts and its usually behind so its in no way bleeding edge. quite the opposite.

gosh. thats real insightful. good for you.

So curiously I just did a post on realizing I could move some files around and realize it was quicker in the terminal. Basically I had a bunch of files in a folder and I needed to make some sub folders and move the files into them. The difference is not massive but its, to me, a bit easier in the terminal. mkdir “directoryname” instead of click new folder folder name. then like looking at a large amount of files with ls is sorta easier. ls -l resume then mv resume to ./jobs . In the gui I have to hunt around to multi select with shift and ctrl and pull them over. It likely does not sound easier but it is. terminal to is something that the more you use the easier it is doing things with it. Like using the mouse a lot does not make you quicker appreciably and moving or renaming or whatever but if you use the terminal more you do get appreciably faster. Im not even sure of the limit as I have never gotten that good but like I had a boss that could edit files so quickly in vi it was just nuts. since deleting lines is two keystrokes and repeating multiplines is even easier with no need to select. He was also crazy good with grep. Im going to make it a point of having the terminal up and think about using it before gui and then going to gui when I think it will be faster. Its kinda good for you when your in tech to. I hope to get back to my old better pace or better.

i grabbed gnu screen. works well enough and its gpl3

I feel like you are the closest to getting what I meant. I had fallen out of the habit working in windows but the linux terminal is so useful im going to start making a point of having it available to do some things a bit faster.

ironically I used the gui to split the terminal today.

ok. I have written scripts but when there is a reason. I doubt I will for my day to day. User account creation. Completely makes sense. I don’t need it to move around files or rename them. sorry I have been getting so many replies like I have never used the command line till today when I thought my post made it clear I just have not really used them with my personal machine unless I had a specific reason to.

I doubt im going to add anything to my bashrc but again I did not think I would go to the command line as a preference like I did so maybe it will happen. Even back in the day I actually just had a blurb print out when I used windows syntax back when I was learing linux syntax. I may just actually throw some aliases in if I start using complex enough commands but for now its just a few simple things.

I doubt im going to start using vim again but it could happen. never really got into emacs but have sorta went back and forth with vim and nano at the command line. Its a bit of a pain remembering things but ill admit when you do you can do things quickly. I sorta felt the same about command line. Previous to this I was only dropping down when I had to but this was the first in awhile were I used it preferentially over the gui alternative so who knows.

yeah and gui sometimes is the easier route like when moving over large parts of the file structure and your not repeating the action. I was just making a few folders and cleaning out a folder with to many disparate things when I realized its just much easier to make directories and move files over one or two folders especially when the names are similar.

Oh its not for everyone but I would not be surprised if there is more tech people like myself. Older and started before gui and loved the next step and was wild about osx. Used linux a fair amount at work. Im a pretty tech person but at some point utility and ease sorta won out in addition to using defaults (I used to customize everything but when you have to support users who mostly use default its good to be used to default). I just have not been in the habit and I forgot how nice it is in some scenarios.

I use zorin and the nvidia drivers been fine.

zorin is likely the easiest out of box distro you can get but its not a gaming distro. if gaming is that important I would consider either just using a gaming distro or dual booting one.

Should not be much of an issue. I added macs and linux machines to the AD I ran for a university lab way back in the early aughts and even after moving to the university system so that we would not need to run our own hardware it was not that hard. The big issue is if the guys running the AD are onboard.

this is just the summary. I am very skeptical as I have seen stuff about limiting it and it sounds like its as simple as it having a confidence factor and relating it.