Only the Japanese edition will save us

Agreed, you can probably get away with an extension that updates the file icons when the default app changes, and syncs all of them when you press a button somewhere or install it.

Yes. Gentoo is always a good idea :)

Don’t forget the handedness of each coordinate system!

Everyone should know most of the time the data is still there when a file is deleted. If it’s important try testdisk or photorec. If it’s critical pay for professional recovery.

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Should my dog see a vet if it underpants?

I find it amusing. I’m a die hard Linux user, but I never “switched”. I still have windows machines I just don’t like them.

By choice

Bruh is your CPU even source available?

The only option for true transparency is to build it from scratch, like at the logic gate level.

Those distros have ethical and legal value but they don’t magically make you better off.

I wanted a 3rd party, just not like this.

Fyi UAC is not strong protection . Also, it really doesn’t matter if you have a password or not, UAC works the same way.

SELinux or other MAC systems (AppArmour?) are complicated but can protect a Linux system in a way similar to the UAC prompts on Windows, although its not convenient at all.

Maybe someone has a gui to make it easy, but I’ve never used it.

I think you may be happy with setting a short or empty user password so a sudo popup is basically the same as clicking allow on a UAC prompt

Let’s see how this goes then revisit the question.

I’m sure windows activation will complain, but you should be able to dd your windows partition (or disk) over to the external disk, set up a bootloader (windows can do this, but something like grub or syslinux I know would work to hand off to the windows bootloader)

I don’t know anything about bitlocker stuff, probably needs to be decrypted before this can work.

That’s what I would try, even though it’s not wrapped up in a single tool.

Renoise is sweet as far as trackers go.

Ardour was always my go-to although it’s been crashing on me a lot.

Shout out to BespokeSynth for being amazing, I forgive the crashes because it’s so cool and strongly foss.

… Leased them from what entity?

Totally possible.

I recommend making room on your drive using windows tools to shrink the windows partition before letting your Linux installer add new ones, or doing it manually. This is just so that no weird filesystem bugs show up after resizing your ntfs filesystem with Linux tools. Never had a problem with them but it’s probably good to use Microsoft tools to mess with the Microsoft filesystem just in case.

Eyyy it’s that post I saw a post about being posted

May run a little JavaScript to see if the extension is there or something? I want to try but I don’t want to install that software to test

I used to use Gentoo on my laptop, mostly for fun but also because I kept having issues on other distros (Ubuntu mostly) where I wanted to run the latest blender release but my libraries were out of date. On Gentoo I could easily get the most recent builds.