It doesn’t matter what it says on the key, it gets mapped to AltGr so it can’t be used as Alt.

You just never have to reconfigure it if you reinstall, or move to another computer, or dual-boot etc.

Pause is usually the compose key (diacritics starter) on Linux desktops. But I’ll agree about Scroll Lock, that one is truly useless.

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Sometimes a key gets bound in all regular modifiers so you really need another one.

For example I use Super+F for fullscreen because Ctrl+F, Alt+F and Ctrl+Alt+F are all taken in this or that program.

Oh and btw the right-hand Alt is usually AltGr not regular Alt for non-English countries, it’s used for composing diacritics.

The button itself wasn’t bad Have such an extra button on my Sony too and it’s very nice (I have it set to take screenshots).

The problem is when they don’t let you map it to whatever you want.

You can get a quality mechanical keyboard in a layout of your choice and take your pick from hundreds of keycap sets in whatever color, profile, material etc. you can think of.

Keychron.com is a good starting point that won’t break the bank (but order them from a reseller or Amazon if you can, Keychron themselves aren’t great with returns and support).

It’s always been like this in most European countries. You take the exam on cars provided by either the examiner or your driving school. If you’re super lucky you get to take it on the car you used the most while learning but that would be blind luck, depends how cars get allocated and how many people are taking the exam on that particular day.

The reason is that in Europe we have to use certified cars for learning and exam, and also they need to have double command — they are fitted with extra pedals on the passenger side so the instructor/examiner can take over in case of imminent collision or to demonstrate a point.

Of course it can. And your PC can also fall off the desk. I’m saying a snapshot tool is a really poor solution for distro problems, it’s really a bandaid for a problem that shouldn’t exist.

Use a decent distro, take proper backups, and use snapshots for what they were intended — recovering small mistakes with personal files, not for system maintenance.

Packages can break, not the distro. Packages can break at any time because there’s thousands of them and nobody can check all of them thoroughly. A rolling distro gets you both the bugs and the fixes faster.

Non-apt and non-rolling will limit your options considerably.

Honestly I would say just learn Docker. It only takes a few days, a week tops. You make a container with Mongo and one with Node, network them together, map the Express port and the data volumes for db/code/build to the host machine, and live happily ever after.

Which is super clean, not distro-dependent, reproducible, portable, easy to backup, you can swap Mongo and Node versions or use multiple versions side by side as you please, and you can use whatever features you want from the home distro without impacting anything in your dev stack.

That’s a good chip. As a rule of thumb, Realtek = best, Asmedia = good, JMicron = garbage. JMicron adapters run super hot and draw a lot of power, leading to low speeds and dropped connections.

The reason I suggested a Live CD with persistence is that they are better at autodetecting stuff on the host machine. You can definitely install an actual system on the SSD but it will make assumptions about things like the GPU for example – won’t expect to have to swap it at boot, you’ll have to do it manually. Or you can run your desktop environment with a pure software driver but that may get a bit annoying at times, depending on what you want to do with it.

.deb distros are doomed from the start if you need to use third-party repos (which you do, for a desktop system) because they always end up undermining the stability of the packages from the core repos in the long run.

Try an Arch-based distro, they’re super stable because their compatibility model is more robust, and there are options depending on how much hand-holding you want — ranging from vanilla Arch to Endeavour to Manjaro.

Strawberry is basically a fork of Clementine from when it was abandoned.

What chipset does the adapter use? Check lsusb or dmesg.

Try adding a Manjaro install ISO with Ventoy, it works very well in live CD mode.

Yeah that’s why I use Nvidia, because AMD drivers are super stable.

A major distro breaking your system is the equivalent of a flower pot falling on your head walking down the street. Does it happen? Sure. Do I want to spend my life wearing a motorcycle helmet and looking up all the time? No.

I’m not saying distros can’t crap on you, I’m saying stop tolerating it. Raise a stink or switch distro. There are distros out there where you don’t have to live in constant fear and where nothing happens if you don’t have snapshots.

I do have backups, precisely because shit happens. But there’s a difference between a helmet and health insurance.

No, I’m implying that official updates breaking the system is insane and should not be accepted as the norm to the point you casually need to use snapshots just to keep your system working.

And a filesystem snapshotting tool would help you restore bootloader how?..

It doesn’t, though. QDOS was just a joke name used internally. The official name was 86-DOS, with DOS standing for Disk Operating System. It was named as a distinction for the fact it could load from disks (hard and floppy) and also that it supported disk filesystems. Previous generations of operating systems were loaded from tape or other supports and did not use files, so it was an important distinction to make.