All of my personal servers are Debian. My last company switched their entire production fleet from centos to Debian. I think a lot of people switched to Debian back when the Centos Stream debacle went down.

Use a partition manager like parted or fdisk to delete all the partitions from the drives and create one new one that encompasses the whole disk.

If you are doing all this from a GUI you can use Gparted to make it easier for you.

“Works on my machine…” Classic dev response, lol.

People like that make me like systemd. Honestly, I see no issues and rarely have a problem with systemd. Shitposting about it is all well and good, but being an anti-systemd evangelist is tiring and weird. All these old heads can still just grab the kernel and build their own OS around it with whatever init they want.

I started community college in 2007 with no idea what I wanted to do with my life, I don’t remember how, but I came across Linux and spent that year brining ISOs to cds, testing different distros, customizing my DE, etc… By my second year I decided that computers was what I wanted to do and specifically something involving Linux. Fast forward 16 years and I’m still working in tech with 7+ Linux machine between my homelab and my cloud providers and dozens of FOSS services. Funny enough, I just recently moved and found a stack of like 30 bootable ISO cds as old as Ubuntu 7.10.

I love the idea of OSM, been trying to use MagicEarth on iPhone which leverages OSM, but I run into similar issues that your describe. I’ll be honest tho, I never even thought of trying to contribute, may look into it as a little hobby in my free time.

Here’s a little secret, they are all garbage.

That said, definitely opt for a laser printer next go around and avoid HP anything imo. I have heard good things about Brother tho.

Used Thinkpad from eBay is your best bet to start imo.

TempleOS

https://www.howtogeek.com/115041/htg-explains-whats-the-difference-between-ubuntu-linux-mint/

It doesn’t seem like it differs that much from Ubuntu anymore in that regard tho.

I thought they packaged some proprietary media codecs and drivers to make it more user friendly out of the box. I could also be mistaken about the status of those items.

It includes cinnamon which is mints in house DE, but all DEs can be installed on any distro. Mint is just Ubuntu with extra proprietary stuff. My point was that it’s weird to have them in separate arbitrary categories. Labeling Ubuntu as “Devil” and Mint as “Amazing” is odd when you realize they are the same.

Ubuntu and Mint are the same thing.

I use Debian so that i can ignore it for a year and it still wont break.