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which honestly defeats the point of a "stable" distribution if the software provided is EoL, doesn't it?

Again, the point of a stable release model is that its packaged software doesn't have breaking changes for the lifetime of the release. Install something from those repos and it's guaranteed to run in the same way for the full lifecycle while still getting minor and security updates. So if the software you're externally layering on top of that suddenly requires new dependencies that you have to install externally too, and you don't like that, that's more a problem based on a misunderstanding of Debian than a problem with Debian.

on Linux Laptop Advice · c/linux · 3 pts · 11d

Your nvme drive has a partition table, but the backup table isn't at the end of the disk, and none of the partitions are loaded (only the parent disk, nvme0n1, shows up with lsblk, where it should show nvme0n1p1-3 under it). The partition table at the beginning is readable, but the rest might not be. Looks like it might be a failed/failing disk as you suggested, which luckily is a simple fix.

Run dmesg and look for errors related to the nvme device (dmesg | grep nvme for a quick filter).

on Linux Laptop Advice · c/linux · 11 pts · 11d

Definitely keep troubleshooting before you spend a bunch of money on new hardware while hardware costs are astronomical.

I use windows 11 for work as a linux/hpc admin, as it's a mostly microsoft shop. Most of my work is done in a wsl almalinux terminal, which works fine.

The most important things I've done to make the rest of it more comfortable all come from the powertoys suite:

  • fancyzones, to replicate a tiling window manager (I really hate floating windows)
  • workspaces, to group apps and window placements so I can easily launch mail/chat/terminal/browser into predetermined places, etc
  • keyboard manager, to set up shortcuts to everything
  • run, for a keyboard-driven launcher

With all of that, if you squint and don't think about it too much, it's almost like a dreadfully slow sway desktop haha

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