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I started running foss apps and loving how small and efficient they were in comparison to what I was used to. At one poit I realized that everything I was using could be used on linux, so I migrated and never went back!

The sda1 and sda2 partitions seem safe to format. Just be sure that you really copied everything you need from there. Like others said, better not to mess with the boot partitions

If you want to increase the space of the linux partitions, insead of creating a new extra partition, that may be a bit tricky in that layout, but one thing you can do is (from a live boot) is:
1- delete both windows partitions and create a new ext4 one with ~530gb
2 - clone your /home partition into there and change the fstab to point to the new partition
3- manually check if all your files were safely copied, just to be sure
4 - delete the old /home and expand the size of the / partition into it

you will end with a / partition with ~300gb and a /home of ~530gb

I find that behavior weird too, and had a few problems with it with failed sd cards in raspberry-like devices. By the way. did you put the nofail boot option in fstab to avoid this in the future?

It’s worth to consider that since they already used ubuntu, they might be already familiar with the gui and may feel lost if it changes

There’s no such thing as a permanent transition when it comes to software, and the data (statcounter, wikimedia stats and even steam stats) shows a decline recently, whether we want it or not. A lot of people might have ended giving up and installing windows 11. I’d love to see linux stats go up and swallow windows. like almost everyone around here, but we got to be realistic. Our personal experiences are very biased, so that’s why we need to rely on data, which tends to be less biased.

Assuming you mean desktop Linux, probably slowly. While Linux on desktop is growing, Desktops PC use in general is trending downwards and Linux on mobile is far behind the other players.

That trend probably already stabilized

I believe a lot of them went to reddit, and that explains how it has been growing since the latest changes

If you look at fediverse monitoring stats, every new wave brings the total users to a very high peak, but then the users start decreasing steadily, like a capacitor discharging, until the next wave. It seems we depend on more waves to keep up with a reasonable number of people. It’s probably a similar pattern with linux. With the end of win10, if got to like 5%, but has been going down since then

A custom rom is great and the best path for the techie users. For the general public, you can still disable non needed invasive apps. For minimalist usage aimed at reducing overall phone usage, that’s mostly enough. There’s also a launcher called baldphone available on fdroid that turns any android phone in a minimalist phone, aimed at the elderly, but still nice for any minimalism enthusiast. It requires some tech skill to install though.

With the billions of devices lying around without use, there will be enough for a looong lime

I don’t get that “minimalist phone” market I can just get an older phone, remove all social media and use it

By real user, do you mean a nontechnical user? If that’s the case, the display server isn’t a choice to be made by such user, but by the distro maintainers. Most people won’t notice the difference, because it’s mostly stuff that happens under the hood.

Looks like an icon from a fossify project :D

running plain gnome on my main machine and xfce on my older one, but might try singularity or cosmic when I get some time

Putting simple things behind a qrwall. I once went to a presentation and they had that qr code to scan to get the certificate, and I went there without my phone, so I got no certificate (I needed it for academic bureaucracy). restaurants with qr-only menus also come to mind. Oh, I also saw once a school with the timetables mural with just qrs and nothing else written, so if new students didn’t have a phone AND mobile internet, they couldn’t find by themselves where and when their classes took place

Why not give it a try and see for yourself? When I did it, I got surprised by how the sluggish pc I had became much more performant. I had a few issues here and there, with the transition, but with time, I started getting much fewer issues and stress than with windows

As for pirated games, most will run fine with wine. You can use plain wine, bottles or lutris to run them. If you look for it, you will also find some good source of pirated games for linux ;)

If your city is 25% parking lots, you have a much deeper problem that solar panels won’t solve

This is so sad…

Like I said i another comment, the hints from the article make it seem like the substance he sold i a quite common and cheap one. If he really wanted to give people access to euthanasia, he would simple guide them on how to do and what to obtain, not sell them a very probably probably overpriced “kit”. That man was just exploiting vulnerable people

I’d agree with you that euthanasia must be a right, but there should never be a business around it

Judging by the hints in the article, the lethal substance isn’t something that one needs to go to the darknet to find, but a quite common substance