Yep, all desktop environments have this - whatever text editor is handy. :⁠-⁠)

Maybe they are, but this is the way the medium works - you don’t get to control what people post (unless you are mod). Scroll past and move on.

rxvt-unicode - lightweight and nearly perfect, and one of the few that handles fonts well.

100% all this. Canonical has been pushing snaps for awhile, and I wonder if the 12 year LTS for Ubuntu is part of that strategy - want something newer? It’s in the snap store. snap is terrible, worse than flakpak and appimage - but just as you say, as an arch user I don’t have to care. Whatever I want is probably in the AUR if not the main repos. Rolling distros, done right (arch), are an amazing experience.

It’s a good question - I don’t know, because I haven’t used it. If it’s 100% compatible with i3 down to its configuration and features, then sure, it’s palatable.

In a word - yes - i3 is incredibly productive and customizable, but it’s not for everyone. I’ve been using i3 with no DE or DM for about a decade. Every time I try to use a full DE like KDE, Gnome, etc, it’s just so slow and bloated, and gets in the way. And there’s 100’s of extra packages that get installed, and be updated, that I don’t use. I don’t need anything but terminals (of which I have about 40 open in 12 different virtual desktops), a browser, and an editor when vim isn’t enough. So for me, it’s perfect and simple. I don’t know what will happen when Wayland finally wins, but that’s 5-10 years away before it really wins.

Yes, i3 is not automatic, but you can arrange things however you want - it’s definitely something where you need to read the docs first.

YouTube links are fine - I hate those stupid bots that spam posts about such links.

Pretty much everything that’s running on a microprocessor (i.e. larger than a microcontroller) and not from Microsoft or Apple.

Profiles work fine, but you might have to set things up initially with working Internet. No idea about watch lists or parental controls though - we don’t use them.

Neither of these points are entirely correct.

While remote authentication is the default, you can configure Plex to not require any sort of auth at all for local users. That’s how mine is setup, and we can watch content around the house even when our ISP is offline.

I also don’t get ads or anything else pushing other content - I only ever see my own. You just have to not show those things in the sidebar. So again, the defaults can be changed.

Definitely worth trying Jellyfin if it works for a particular case. I’ve tried Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex - but only found the latter to be reliable enough for OTA DVR via an HDHomeRun which is our primary use case.

Your root filesystem is NTFS? That’s likely the problem - I’m surprised it boots at all. Switching to a Linux filesystem is the likely solution. You could also try a newer kernel, too - 5.10 is quite old, current LTS is 6.1. Good luck.

X11 is also just a protocol, and will live on with or without Xorg.

You’ll be fine as long as you maintain the system, don’t wait too long between updates, and pay attention to the output when you do. I’m running arch on everything - work laptop, a spare laptop, and a server (nas, Plex, home assistant, etc) - two of which are critical systems for me. I use ZFS for all storage pools, including root, and zfsbootmenu, so I can rollback to a previous snapshot if I ever need to or the system won’t boot.

It’s not really worth it, honestly. All netplan does is generate a config for systemd-networkd. It’s better to just configure systemd-networkd directly and have a portable configuration, rather than use Canonical’s proprietary stuff. The documentation is quite good for systemd in general, and with more people using it directly for network config it’s easier to find examples when you need help.