I think it is showing sigterm correctly. Sigkill wipes you from existence without leaving a body or trace of memory.

Thank you for your recommendation, I’ll try it. I’m sad how expensive the full version is, I don’t need cloud sync and it is not that complex of an app to warrant spending €75, or worse, €36/year.

Can you dual boot it yet with other linuxes? I want to split gaming and productivity.

I always wondered, did anyone ever find something with it? Wouldn’t a rootkit that is known enough to be in the detection file be outdated? But yes, you read the docs, points to you!

You can’t impress me with a bog standard Gentoo. If you want to show power, build a fortress. At least put some tripwire you mostly trip yourself on (program that keeps an encrypted hash database of your system files to find intrusion changes, needs an update with every update of course or it alerts only your negligence).

Ah yes, a Linux teenagers power fantasy. Hardened Gentoo and Selinux beats deblobbing btw, noob.

Haha both of course. Young me was intrigued by this great puzzle of getting the system back up. Much quicker than a reinstall, too! At the same time it was one of the Gentoo moments that made me switch to Arch and Manjaro later. I certainly learned a lot with Gentoo but it was also a fragile timesink.

I remember I struggled with broken dynamic linking from bringing in binaries from the outside. I needed an entire build-chain from the same build and then build my way up with source packages (you have them around in gentoo) in my system until i reached portage. And then used emerge to recompile the buildchain twice so it was compatible with my system again.

I sure hope there are ways to unpack RPMs by hand and copy the contents where they need to be. Would be very unlinuxy to make it a binary format and not a zipped container of some sort. But you might struggle depending on the amount of dependencies.

I found out there were binary packages that were build together and manually downloaded and unpacked every package I needed for a minimum coherent build chain (no kernel but gcc, gnuutils etc) and used that to get emerge working again to build a new build chain with my own settings and used that to rebuild system to get rid of the foreign packages and be back. The gentoo wiki helped a lot.

I once accidentally deleted python from my gentoo system (needed for emerge) and rescued it.

Yeah, it is not impossible, but you are actively going against the maintainers choice of software and configuration, that they can assume you have during every update. That is what makes Arch so popular: no handholding that would get in your way; but also no helping hand from upstream, only documentation how to do it. Cinnamon is maintained by the Mint team and considered difficult to install anywhere else. IMHO when you are used to KDE, it can feel lacking.

Mint has no KDE install which makes it a hazzle to setup and fragile to upgrade. You also wouldn’t gain anything, because they are both ubuntu based systems. Not worth it imo, like a sidegrade.

You can transplant your desktop onto anything, the configuration is stored in .config and .local in your home folder. Bring those to another distribution with the same software (copy while you are not logged in, ie while in live cd or reuse the home partition without formatting) and it will look the same.

Because windows is really bad for work, I would want my kde multidesktop multiscreen setup while I earn money spending time in visual studio.

I did it once because I had an unstable cable connection, it was surprisingly easy***(for me) https://www.baeldung.com/linux/merge-several-internet-connections

Adapt and fight. Linux is the dominant OS for everything, so Windows started to support it (wsl) so they don’t loose developers. Secure boot worked as a moat for a while and the MS monopoly on OS keys is still an obstacle. Linux works better on ARM than Windows, so obviously Qualcom Laptops have a locked down bootloader. They will continue to lock themselfes into the future with money and development resources.

This is woolsome.

As long as your installation stick is a live image and you keep it around, it also serves as a mighty tool to fix things with google and chroot.

Ccache is also good to compile and set up as one of the first.