I’d say signal is more easy to transition your family to

Be mindful to not set the H200 to passtrough mode. You need to flash the IT firmware to it for it to work properly.

Old kernel = old drivers. Its that simple… Things might work on a basic level sure. Drivers baked in to the kernel and when you use a damn old version of it you get old drivers and old hardware support.

Debian is so old it doesn’t work on very modern hardware… So what your talking about?

Also Ubuntu is not a “server” option. They do have a server option yes. It is the most used desktop or at least was.

Also I used arch for ca 2 years not once needed to use a backup. Even though I abused the hell out of it.

Most major distros are fairly secure by default without things breaking (arch is a exception there, As you got to set that up your self).

If you want to go extreme their is Qubes OS. But you can not swap that across systems like you might want do.

Dont be scared of a terminal. It is your friend 😁

Actually fairly simple to do. Get a large USB then use that as the target for the install you boot from a second USB. Now you got a full Linux install on a USB

Ahh I see yes that’s better.

Which is a bad thing if your user is in the sudoers or wheel group

Suggesting NixOS to a completely new user is stupid. NixOS is cool but very different from almost all Linux distros. Comes with its own language you have to learn as well.

Thing is. Mint is for the most part a just works distro. Based on Ubuntu it is very easy to find help for it. Combine that with a load of sane defaults like disabling snaps. The default UI and theme could defiantly use a facelift

Because when a ad gets served true the same domain as the content you can not block it. DNS filtering Is good but not a magic bullet

For music. I use navidrome. It works a load better then jellyfin for this IMO. You can use the same file location for both jellyfin and navidrome if needed.

Sounds like you are a data hoarder haha. Can’t blame you. But for such hobby’s perhaps a ZFS system with deduplication and a second ZFS system to use for backup of the first system is what you want.

Does get costly though.

Can someone give me a tldr about why the hate towards Pewdiepie? I have not followed him in absolute years.

Oké grandpa, its time to take your meds

The tux logo at boot is due to a kernel option. You can enable this if you like.

Ripping straight from tidal and self hosting with navidrome 😁

Well yes but if you are migrating almost anything to Linux. this might be worth while over expensive windows infrastructure.

That is with any piece of software. their will always be some vulnerabilities that are very bad. so by your definition using any piece of software is a concern.