Opensuse TW. It is rolling release and rock solid. Also amazing btrfs implementation.

A VPN is what you want, not VLANS that is used to segment parts of the local network. not to get your friends in too your local network.

A simple and easy to use solution is wireguard easy.

Frankly i found the Gentoo handbook much easier to follow then the arch wiki at the time I tried both. Just compiling everything takes a while to do.

Might want to take a look at a dedicated backup tool like Borg. It will keep all the proper permissions and file attributes in the backup.

You can try to see which mounts get exposed with

showmount -e IP

To see if the actual shares are working.

Unless you use Gentoo of course

Also might want to add tty. it is very useful and in someways part of the basics.

vim

Honesty I found gentoo more easy to install then arch. Mainly because the Gentoo handbook is soo good and is in laid out in a good order. Compare that to the arch wiki that has a ton of sub pages and redirects. Which is just a load harder to follow.

PS. This is before their was a guided installer for arch.

Might want to change the title a bit…

I mean it is still miles ahead of snaps and the snap store

obviously a troll. And a stupid one at that

Take a look at Borg. It is a very well suited backup tool that has deduplication.

Also because the google pixel its bootloader can be relocked without much trouble. that is a big part of why GOS only supports pixel phones.

Like letting keys expire and ddos the aur to name some.

Htop vim and ncdu to name a few terminal apps.

As someone who daily drives Opensuse TW and have used arch, gentoo etc. I would highly recommend mint for a new user most of the time. It is one of the distros that works out of the box without any tinkering. Want to add a printer on opensue using yast? good luck. in mint it is a few clicks. just to name a example

Maybe Alpine is suited? Although the whonix VM requirement will not be pleasant or work at all. But that is more of a hardware limitation.

IBM Maximo :) Both are expensive but not for you average consumer.

Something like gparted ? It is specifically designed to manage disks and partitions from a live OS.