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  • I prefer AppImages. I find system-wide installations risky in the long run, and don’t mind managing each software myself. Plus, often I have to use super old software, and when the current programs become old themselves, it’s useful, I think, that they’re as independent as they can from dependencies that may or may not be available anymore. However, still using apt download just in case as that variant of the command also downloads dependencies.


  • Personally, I think piracy is a tool of the desperate, the disheartened and those that don’t care for awarding merit. The desperate if a software is too hard to come by legitimately, the disheartened as a form of protest if the software/company has draconian practices at play, and those that don’t award merit because they would, if not never, at least rarely buy/rent anything if not forced to.

    FOSS is nice and all, but do mind people are expending their time in such projects, so if you think a project is good and you can afford it, I’d suggest supporting financially the creators.








  • If you mean different physical drives, I would suggest detatching the drive with the already installed system when installing the second one.

    Also, Linux installers may behave differently from one another, so I would suggest testing on another machine if possible, or at least backing up what you cannot afford to lose in the current machine, shrinking the Windows partition with its native partition manager instead, and picking a system whose installer can spot the correct partitions, maybe e.g. Mint with its option to be installed alongside an already installed system, or Endeavour which, from what I remember, can detect empty partitions.

    Also if during install, grub is not set up to have both Linux and Windows as start options, there is a grub manager on Linux too, so that can be salvaged.

    And lastly, a word of warning, and reiterating a past point, testing something as big as a dual boot in a computer with sensitive and already existing data is playing with fire.



  • On not finding anything, see if OpenSuse has anything like apt-cache. On Debian-based systems, it helps a bunch, as it looks for packages (programs) containing in the name or description the keyword you are looking for. Regarding messing the installation, making back ups periodically and keeping the more volatile stuff you do not want to lose on different physical drives could help.





  • You’ll lose all your local data as the bootloader gets unlocked, so back them up.

    Tutorials on modding phones, from my experience, are fairly obtuse despite the process itself usually being rather simple and straight forward.

    If you want to go as privacy-oriented as possible, you’ll likely pick a vanilla system (that is, as close to AOSP, “Android Open Source Project”), and will often be on the lookout for software that is either DRM-free (no dependency on 3rd party software), or open source / FOSS (“Free and Open Source Software”). Also VPNs to mask your online usage may come with their own set of cobsiderations, like some sites breaking, some others considering it ban-worth, and others setting prices, languages, etc., to a given region.