Bruh is your CPU even source available?

The only option for true transparency is to build it from scratch, like at the logic gate level.

Those distros have ethical and legal value but they don’t magically make you better off.

Fyi UAC is not strong protection . Also, it really doesn’t matter if you have a password or not, UAC works the same way.

SELinux or other MAC systems (AppArmour?) are complicated but can protect a Linux system in a way similar to the UAC prompts on Windows, although its not convenient at all.

Maybe someone has a gui to make it easy, but I’ve never used it.

I think you may be happy with setting a short or empty user password so a sudo popup is basically the same as clicking allow on a UAC prompt

Let’s see how this goes then revisit the question.

I’m sure windows activation will complain, but you should be able to dd your windows partition (or disk) over to the external disk, set up a bootloader (windows can do this, but something like grub or syslinux I know would work to hand off to the windows bootloader)

I don’t know anything about bitlocker stuff, probably needs to be decrypted before this can work.

That’s what I would try, even though it’s not wrapped up in a single tool.

Not a mistake, I’ve got an ender 3 and a cr10. Both are fine, keep your expectations realistic and calibrate each axis, especially the extruders. Use PLA, consider getting a new build plate if your prints won’t stick. I recommend flashing firmware on the ender 3 unless you know what was loaded onto it last, doesn’t have to be fancy firmware just something you know for sure is configured for your printer. A cr10 should probably get firmware as well but I never loaded new firmware on mine and the controller is older so I’m not sure if it’s a good idea.

Don’t forget the cost of filament, if you print a lot you may spend more on filament in a year that your printer budget.

squints… Big L?

Renoise is sweet as far as trackers go.

Ardour was always my go-to although it’s been crashing on me a lot.

Shout out to BespokeSynth for being amazing, I forgive the crashes because it’s so cool and strongly foss.

Totally possible.

I recommend making room on your drive using windows tools to shrink the windows partition before letting your Linux installer add new ones, or doing it manually. This is just so that no weird filesystem bugs show up after resizing your ntfs filesystem with Linux tools. Never had a problem with them but it’s probably good to use Microsoft tools to mess with the Microsoft filesystem just in case.

I used to use Gentoo on my laptop, mostly for fun but also because I kept having issues on other distros (Ubuntu mostly) where I wanted to run the latest blender release but my libraries were out of date. On Gentoo I could easily get the most recent builds.

I think you need to start a project, accept it will be slow and painful, and don’t become an expert before you start, just use the skills you have and see where they take you. The only thing that matters in software is that it works. The definition of working changes over time, but get that first working version and you will keep going.

Agreed it sounds like op wants luks. Dare I say if you want bitlocker for Linux, it’s luks.

The less I think, the more it thinks

^r

For me the tinkering is part of the fun, so old beat up ender 3s are perfect. If you want something ready to go, even a brand new ender 3 won’t give you that 🤣

Maybe watch your system logs on the server when it’s having trouble, could be something random.

Mostly just try Linux on it 😹 Don’t install it just run from a flash drive or something

… Run ChromeOS? :P which is basically android. Maybe run Linux if the bootloader is unlockable

😂 time to build your Linux from source!

It’s okay to cry, but also keep going until you figure it out, and watch freecad tutorial videos. I think learning how to cad on freecad is a nightmare, but once you know how things are supposed to be built it works well.

Y u no pipe yes into apt 🙃