It’s complicated. Some countries are allied in one aspect, and bitter enemies in another. For example, the US and Russia are military and world-power rivals, but frequently cooperate in scientific endeavors like the ISS, and conduct plenty of resource trading, like oil and minerals.
Or at least they did for a while. Russia invading Ukraine hampered that a bit.
The best way?
Get rid of all the connected stuff entirely, delete all your online accounts, get rid of your cell phone and similar devices, start paying cash for everything. Close your bank accounts and keep your money under your mattress. Move into the woods, grow your own food, and don’t talk to anyone.
System76, Framework, even Dell officially supports Ubuntu in limited cases.
I’d just try a couple different distros and see which one has the fewest issues for you. If you like, you can pay for official support from Dell or Canonical. If you do identify an issue in a supported scenario (Ubuntu version + device model) they will actually help you troubleshoot and resolve the issue. RHEL is the same if you want to pay a bit more.
Yeah that might be it. Sddm is a display manager, you might be using it for your login screen.
You might be able to work around it by just setting the service to restart automatically, so that it comes up properly once a display is attached. But if you can, I would try reproducing it on a fresh and fully updated install, and open a bug report to the maintainers if you can. Linux developers generally try to make really sure their programs don’t crash like that.
Boot log/kernel/dmesg, X/Wayland/kde primarily. Been a long time since I’ve had to troubleshoot something like this so I don’t know the new kids on the block. Maybe upstart or dracut? Whatever manages the boot process now
That seems strange. What’s in the log?
So what does it have to do with Linux?
Believe all you want, reality doesn’t care.
I would recommend not touching system apps unless you have a very good reason for doing so. And be willing to risk breaking your device.
Yup. Personally now that I’m an adult and have Responsibilities, I spend less time playing games. I hardly even follow new games coming out, and just work on recommendations from friends, or stuff from developers whose games I’ve enjoyed in the past.
Why remove them? If they look good enough to buy, do it, and get around to the others eventually.
Destroyed, never to be seen again.
Well maybe virtualbox could be spun out first.