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If you have TPM2 support on the motherboard it can be used to unlock LUKS encryption but has the following known vulnerability.

https://oddlama.org/blog/bypassing-disk-encryption-with-tpm2-unlock/

Dresden Files for the win, that’s one of my favorite story openings.

Somewhat like this.

I hope nobody was in the building in the background left. It looks like the rupture went right under it and did it’s best to split the building in half.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design)

It was the font that they stole from what I heard.

Nope, it’s a shawl, a poncho would have a hole for the head in the middle whereas a shawl wraps around the shoulders.

You got me, that’s the exact one I just pulled out of my pocket when I read this.

No real advice but I’ve heard of people having issues with their BTRFS filesystem running out of free inodes and reporting the filesystem as full due to that. Note that the df command is not expected to work properly for a BTRFS filesystem.

Your hair isn’t left smelling of the vinegar after?

Kobo is owned by Rakuten, a Japanese company. Still a much better choice than Amazon though.

1. Linux Mint Debian Edition if you must use Mint and stick with KDE plasma desktop on whichever distro. I’d recommend avoiding ubuntu and Manjaro.
2. Xournal++ is the only one for this purpose I’ve heard recommended. I use Zim for what I need.
3. It’s going to be slow and will wear out the SD card eventually but it deserves consideration. I strongly recommend keeping the already installed Windows and using a SD card or USB C drive for Linux, particularly if you’re still intending to actively use it for note taking. You could use a USB C device like a NVMe enclosure or something that supports UAS and get good speed on the Linux install if the Surface supports UAS.
4. Nothing to offer.
5. Make sure your backups of anything you don’t want to lose on the Surface are up to date before you start anything. Linux installers will normally prefer an internal disk so if you forget to change that when installing all those files will be gone.

I’d suggest trying out Bazzite Linux. It’s the closest to SteamOS and has a lot of tweaks already installed.

NixOS Arch SteamOS Debian

I wouldn’t bet on that, you’d be wrong.

Snapdragon is an ARM CPU which means if you can find a distro to run on it, it’ll likely be an Android custom ROM, whereas Celeron is x86 and should run most Linux distros without issue.

I have a system with a Ryzen 1700 with the same issue and have found the only reliable way to run it is by installing and enabling the disable-c6-systemd package from the AUR. The other fixes provided in the wiki article you linked are correct but aren’t sufficient on my system, the CPU keeps reenabling the C6 state on its own and the disable-c6-systemd package works to counter that. The reason it works on Windows is they’ve disabled the C6 state by default for the CPU.

Caldera Open Linux 2.(?) back around 98/99, for long enough to download Slackware and Win98SE.

Overhead projectors don’t exist anymore, they’ve been replaced by video projectors mounted overhead.

Same here. I came for the integrated ZFS support and stayed for the declarative config.