This is very close to how I visualized my depression. Good stuff.

I tried both Manjaro and Endeavour early in my distro hoping days. Endeavor, like others have said, is basically Arch with a good installer and some good defaults, but it is still Arch, which requires you to pay more attention and get more involved in your OS.

Manjaro was kind of an “easier Arch” for me until they pushed an update and black-screened every one of my computers. Twice.

After that, I was done, which is a shame because I rather liked it.

I’m gonna have to go with the one on the left, even though the black level has been lifted a bit. I am looking more at the toolbar across the top and its functionality, which looks easier to use to me.

Doesn’t matter how sleek and shiny something looks if I don’t know how to use it.

I don’t know. I set up a friend of mine who was a complete computer novice with Linux Mint on his laptop well over a year ago and he has not called me for support a single time, where he was regularly calling for help with Windows. People who are afraid of technology usually don’t go randomly clicking on stuff to see what happens. I’m pretty sure that grandma is safe. Plus, if you’re spending HOURS configuring a computer for an elderly person who likely won’t use it very often…you’re doing it wrong.

What I also do is create a complete backup of all of my computers to an external SSD with Rescuezilla on a semi regular basis, so I always have something to fall back to should the entire system or storage device goes belly up. 

I personally don’t store ANY data on any of my laptops. I use Nextcloud and sync the files I want access to on the go. The rest stays on my Nextcloud server at home.

If you are looking for a (mostly) fool-proof backup system that can restore changed settings and files even from a few minutes ago, you want macOS and Apple’s Time Machine. Pull out your wallet and hand it to Tim Apple.

Backups are your friend. As others have said, just automate backing up to an external device.

I think that the closest thing you will find to PastePal is CopyQ.

https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

That took me a long time to finally see. There is a character squatting over the Christmas tree, but they are so tall that it’s hard to make out. All you see are their lower torso and butt.

Penguins don’t do Windows!

What The Actual Fuck is wrong with people?

Have to agree with the other replies: this could be any number of things. I’d start with the basics by making sure it’s not a hardware issue, then looking at software. Vostro is Dell’s budget business line, and my experiences with Vostro have been lackluster at best.

That’s not to say it’s purely a hardware issue. I’m a hardware guy so I tend to look at hardware first. Any number of software issues could also be causing your issue, including drivers, driver configuration, data corruption on your storage device, a setting or config from your distro or upstream provider, or even some random utility you installed.

Does it crash under other operating systems? Does it crash only after sitting idle for a certain time? Are you able to open another TTY and use the system from a prompt even though your screen is black?

FUCK ISRAEL, and FUCK Netanyahu. The descendants of victims of genocide have themselves become perpetrators of genocide.

America should have stopped giving them funding decades ago.

Fuck Netanyahu right in the ass with a 2x4

Do yourself a favor and skip the USB drive - they are ridiculously slow compared to a compact external SSD. I found a cheap m.2 enclosure on Amazon and put an old SSD in it and the speed difference is breathtaking.

My SSD has a bunch of Linux distros grouped into folders along with Windows 10 & 11, every macOS from 10.13 to present, along with Rescuezilla, Hiren’s and a few others I can’t remember at the moment.

Rescuezilla was my #1 go-to during my days of distro hopping. Makes it super easy to try out a distro on bare metal instead of a VM.

Why would you continuously record? Just record motion events and you won’t need a card that large at all, plus it will last a lot longer.

I feel like this is a product looking for a market. Why would anyone ever trust that much data to something so fragile and easy to lose?

And after you spend 14 hours filling it with data, it falls out of your shirt pocket when you lean over to tie your shoe, gets caught by a gust of wind, and is gone forever.

I am having this exact same problem on my MacBook Air running Ultramarine Linux, a Fedora derivative.

I finally gave up and plugged in a Panda USB Wi-Fi adapter. Not ideal, but it works.

I’m a huge fan of Joplin. It runs on everything and syncs to either your or their cloud. Been using it for a few years now.

Are we really complaining about gendered pronouns in source code notes for a web browser?

Is that what we are doing?

There are mountains of bigger fish to fry, y’all. Social change doesn’t happen overnight. It can take decades or longer.

Widespread language changes have historically taken decades or even centuries to occur.

Ask any woman or person of color over the age of 50 about the CONSTANT slights or worse endured every day for most of their lives for some perspective.

Fight the good fight, absolutely, but this isn’t worth getting angry over - at least not from what I’ve read so far.

I got tired of fooling around with mine and just plugged in a Panda USB Wi-Fi adapter. It’s ugly, but reliable.

See my reply later in this thread.