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If you’ll be using it in a shop, as a tool and that Debian works well. Well… stick with Debian !

If you want cloud, if you have a RPi somewhere, you can add PiVPN and from there you use syncthing from anywhere.

Why not, though ?

If you want up to date go with Arch/Nix, don’t go OpenSuSE.

Your mint setup is fine to start learning, as others have said. Start with something simple : python, javascript, …

For programming, there are tools available on every OS. However I have found that those tools are easier to use on Linux. Okayish to use on MacOS. Programming with Windows, on the other hand is, well… it certainly is possible, but… see for yourself.

For instituitions it varies depending on each one of them. Usually they have their own tools because it is easier to organise a class if everyone works on the same IDE but if you get good enough it does Not matter what is your OS/IDE of choice. VSCodium is nice but anything like kwrite/kate/gedit/geany is good enough. Hell, even nano can get the job done.

Did you see the specs of the “old mac” lol. Shit’s a powerhouse. He could even host lemmy on it.

But mailspring uses electron tho

Have a solid discussion with them in a neutral setting

Firefox

I am much older and was once in your situation. I grew up and really understood what it meant to be an anarchist. And is has not much to do with the “obey” but rather with the “obey blindly and accept it”.

I believe the fact that they do not trust you with a computer arise from the fact that you are not mature enough — or at least the fact that you don’t show them enough maturity. And I think, by the tone of your post, that you are not mature enough.

That is not a bad thing, at all! You need to take your time to grow up. And if you want to have more rights, in their home, try to understand their side of things. Ask them why they won’t trust you, where does the need to restrict you come, how can you act to have more freedom.

Anarchy isn’t about blindly disobeing. That’s just disobeissance. It’s about understanding what rights you don’t have and the reason behind it.

One last thing : please don’t forget that even if you think you are ready for the outside world, at 15 you are not. Some fifteen years old are, but they are not the ones to come on an internet forum to sort things out — they already have it all figured out. For the while, communicate with your parents and try to understand their point of view. And remember that as long as you live under their roof, you have to abide by their rules. You can also choose to continue breaking them as you are doing right now. But be smart about it.

Joke apart I’ve run into these issues once or twice before. The way to go is to purge the keyring then update it from scratch.

For AUR the best way to go is to install yay (see how on ArchLinux wiki) then go from there. Normally the dependencies should install themselves easily.

Have you tried installing with yay ?

Debian is hard to master for someone coming from Windows ^^

Plus, it’s pretty ugly without heavy customisation. Which ZorinOS (or Pop!_OS) ain’t :)

Zorin is the best distro to learn linux when coming from Windows. I have used Zorin 15.3 and Zorin 16.

The UI is nice, simple and reminds a lot of Windows. It is easy to understand (easier than Ubuntu, Debian, Pop!_OS and Linux Mint).

It has wine preinstalled and runs smoothly.

Top bar, titlebar buttons on the left, “dock” on the right (which is just a panel), hotcorner, …

I don’t really try to replicate GNOME but rather take what improves my flow from Windows, GNOME, Unity, MacOS, …

But that’s the wonderful thing about KDE : you can choose to customize whatever you like however you feel !

It’s also because Rust had made it easier to develop cross platform and the Rust compiler is more efficient than java