I also prefer to get my software from the distro’s repos, but for software from third parties, flatpak adds a security layer, making it more secure when compared, for example, to aur.

Do you have access to a computer with an sd card reader? I believe the best and safest thing to do is to connect it to a computer, create disk image from it and try ro use a data recovery tool in the image file.

Edit: if you only have the phone, maybe you could try looking for apps to copy a disk image from the sd card and to recover data or try using some terminal emulator or one of those apps that install a linux distro inside android to use the dd command and then use testdisk and photorec tools. I recommend the second option, because the tools are open sourc and well tested

I don’t have a full answer, so I won’t try to answer it right now, but I will surely think about it during the next days.

I don’t choose. To continue living is just the default, and time keeps passing, so I’m alive by inaction…

Could we uninstall almost all non system apps, make it autostart and prevent any other app from getting in the way?

A long time ago I tried to run multiple distros in live mode on it and got only one (Puppy) to work. Display, sound, ethernet and pretty much everything worked fine. GPU seemed to be an issue though because NVidia and I couldn’t install the driver (it was skill issue and I think it’s possible to do). But now it doesn’t work for some reason.

Puppy linux has 3 versions, based on different distros. Maybe you tried one version back then, and now a different one?

If your only problem with tkinter are the looks there are some theme extensions that can make it look more modern, like ttk bootstrap

Running mxlinux on an old pc here, and I recommend it heavily. It’s a lightweight system that is also user friendly for people new to linux.

39. Started working in my mom’s womb, before they were counting my age.

The washing machine caused some sort of electric failure that damaged a thin client being used as a server

At first, I thought it was some sort of iot washing machine that stopped working due to software error lol.

People around here are delusional a lot of times, but to say that windows has too much of a monopoly to lose market, is too much of an exaggeration. Microsoft has been taking unpopular decisions, newer windows versions have been facing more and more resistance, macos has been growing and taking a share of the market, some governments and smaller businesses have been trying linux as a way to cut expenses, linux usability have been improving a lot, android devices have been taking more steps into taking functionalities from desktop systems and improving usability with keyboard and mouse, a lot of computers that do simple processing have been replaced by sbcs, like raspberry pis, etc.

Windows isn’t too big to fail, and it’s not impossible that we’re close to see it starting to fall. Now, on what os would become the bigger player, that’s another story.

Fun fact: My elderly mother uses linux, and without my help. Also, she never used the terminal.

A dolphin with a hat? Its very close to the concept of the brazilian amazon river dolphin myth.

Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility

Was there any recent relevant developments in this area?

I remember a colleague who had a laptop with a cpu that supported virtualization, but it wasn’t enabled, and there was no option in the uefi to enable it, so he couldn’t run virtualbox. Perhaps libreboot could help getting rid of such arbitrary limitations?

Sorry for the mess, and thank you for taking your time to answer me

That’s exactly what happens. I get it now

It’s on main fedora, and yes, I go through grub need to input the encryption password twice. I can record it, if it makes things more clear. I’m having a weird difficulty explaining this.

I probably didn’t explain it very well, sorry.

When I update using the gnome software manager, it only downloads the packages and wait for a reboot to install them. When I click the option to reboot ans install, it boots to a software update screen, and when it finishes, it reboots again to the system.

I get it, but I don’t understand why fedora has to reboot 2 times when I update using the gui. What would be the problem with updating before shutting down, and rebooting only once? Fedora reboots, updates, then reboots again.