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I find i to look on forums for solutions less and less anyway. Once you’ve been using a distro long enough unless your trying to do something you’ve never done before it’s usually pretty simple to know what’s wrong, and fix it. Because you’ll get the same things popping up over and over again.

I also like to keep like a little doc of fixes I’ve done on each computer so that if a year later i need to do a version upgrade or reinstall i can look back to it, and see what i did last time if i get repeat issues. Especially useful on stuff like laptops where you’ll have really specific hardware issues that reappear years later, and normally take hours and hours of trying to figure out what is broken.

my Dell laptop on debian can suspend and wake flawlessly, and uses basically no energy while suspended. Like 12 hours later it’ll maybe lose 1-2%.

I have spent literal hours of my life trying to get the fingerprint reader on a latitude 7400 to work and i just gave up lol. Passwords are underrated anyway.

Idk if its so much a china problem as just an amazon problem in general. Dropshipping made it a thing i think. Since you’ve got dozens of drop shippers trying to sell the same product. Then companies selling direct had to try to maintain their SEO by doing this so their listings are not drowned in dropshipper listings.

I regularly get confused because they moved an intersection in my town 5 years ago, and i still think it’s there until i pull up and its a dead end. lol

Chinese people use the same distros we do generally. But Linux is seen as much more of a professional thing there, and i think the people using it probably just compile things themselves, and have less of a need for flatpak. Huawei actually had a Linux laptop they were offering for sale for awhile, and a lot of the people buying it were having the store clerk put a cracked version of windows on it for them lol.

Wow that must be atleast like 7 linux users overall taking into account all the distro hopping and redownloading lol.

Honestly id argue Debian stable is the most secure as long as the apps your using are getting security hotfixes backported. Since you get all the security fixes and none of the new features that tend to be where new security holes pop up. Combine that with good opsec in general, and your basically good to go.

One thing tho. Some people use them interchangably but is your focus security or privacy? Security being harder for bad actors to exploit something on your system, and privacy being strict control over your data.