I used Garuda in the past and was impressed. What's cool is they have a bunch of ther own services in addition to Lemmy.

Garuda Linux | Startpage - https://start.garudalinux.org/

Then resurrect it. Give it life by posting to it. 😏

I'm gonna have to give this one a try. Syncthing is being a pain in my backside.

Got Void running on an old laptop about a year ago. Very nice. The fact that it is not based on any of the others also made it appealing.

True. Luckily I don't have anything large (4GB+). I do plan to change the filesystem. I forgot to mention that I used to have Windows 7 on that old laptop. The other reason why the shared partition was FAT32/vfat.

I have a triple boot laptop with MX Linux, Void Linux, and OpenBSD on an old laptop where VMing wouldn't work so well.

As others have pointed out a shared home directory is not a good idea. Shared data (documents, music, images, etc.) would be fine as mentioned previously.

I have/had a bunch of these books. Some got lost but I have the electronic versions of them.

This is one other book I fondly remember. UNIX For Application Developers. From 1991 I think. I vaguely remember a statement in the intro along the lines of Windows being user friendly but UNiX being expert friendly. :-)

Couldn't find a better image.

cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

Way back when DOSLinux existed the dev provided a Midnight Commander with a fully loaded F2 menu as well as setup associations. Could literally do almost anything and everything from within the file manager. I later moved the configs over to Slackware and pretty much lived in MC to get things done. At some point the MC code reduced the number of entries in the F2 menu so I would have to rebuild it to remove the limitation.

No longer use it like that today but MC is used constantly for file management locally and remotely (mostly to a Kodi box).

Using OFMs (Norton/Volkov/Midnight Commanders and FAR) has always been easier and faster to use than Explorer-style GUI FMs for me.

Oops, sorry. 😬

TEL

If one decides to mess with it, some notes. Last release was awhile back. I don't use Android 12/13 so no idea how well it works there.

Tel and Tel:API have same package names as Termux and Termux:API. Meaning there should be no trace of Termux on system before trying.

Not really battery friendly when using the default status info up top.

Powerful command line environment. Recommend that one is familiar / comfortable with the CLI.

Can use it as a launcher also I guess. Termux Expert Launcher.

Have the PinePhone and PP Pro. Partial to SailfishOS on both. It has the most smartphone feel if you will. Like with most the camera is pretty much a no go but I rarely use them anyway.