A whole lot of people who just do web or email or whatever could live with a Chromebook actually. They don’t really need the latest CPU/GPU and gobs of ram and disk space for simple stuff

Sorry, was expecting a flood that didn’t happen I guess. Why a separate partition for home (or var, or whatever you want to split off)? See

https://askubuntu.com/questions/142695/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-having-a-separate-home-partition

Can you use a hardware key like a Yubikey instead?

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Or Wireshark

I learned by a lot of distro hopping, tweaking and tuning and compiling kernels (way back when tho), to not being afraid of “breaking things.” Since Nov. 1992. It helps when you use a spare PC or laptop though, no panic about loss

Any culture built on keeping yer yap shut is always bound to have less trouble. My Finn friend just nodded in agreement. Haven’t heard him speak a full sentence in years…