Beginning is always Fedora.

Don’t fuck with Immutable anything.

Don’t let anyone convince you that Ubuntu and Snap isn’t bad.

Just try Fedora. Skip all the bullshit.

Your title is ‘…in using Linux’. My point is simply it has nothing to do with Linux, and it’s also posted in the Linux sub.

That is a process fail, not a Linux fail. It wouldn’t matter if it was Linux or absolutely anything else.

Hate to break it to you, but you’re intending to work in Rust or Go, immutable distros are the wrong place to be unless they center on that. Switch to something else that doesn’t have hurdles.

Similar chipset, try this: https://www.amirootyet.com/post/how-to-get-wifi-to-work-after/

Broadcom chips aren’t open source, and depending on which model of Mac you have, YMMV. Can you at least lock down the year or model number?

Other comments are just giving you solutions without explaining the actual underlying question you’re asking, so let me break it down a bit:

Linux is the underlying system that runs everything, and the desktop you’re seeing is just a Desktop Environment (aka: DE) running on top of that. Mint has its own DE called Cinnamon. The other big DE’s are Gnome and KDE.

The user experience of how each DE handles mounting other drives varies, sometimes depending on how they are specifically setting defaults for each distro. For instance, Gnome and KDE will proactively mount other drives which you can access in their respective file explorers by default, while Cinnamon does not AFAIK. For things like removable storage, all of them should work as Windows does and be automatic.

If you really like Cinnamon and want to stick with Mint, look into a search like “cinnamon automount windows volume” or similar. There’s tons of instructions out there, and some responses here have links as well.

Otherwise, maybe try a LiveUSB of Fedora for a solid Gnome desktop, or KDE Neon for a KDE desktop and see if either of those appeals to you.

That’ll work just fine. If you just want a test run, a LiveUSB is pretty sufficient for more things.

VNC is outdated and outmoded.

Spice is, firstly, no longer developed, but second, not widely adopted.

RDP is open, has pluggable authentication, transport encryption, and an extensible backend.

Kind of a clear winner there.

It’s safe.

I’m confused by some of your questions, but it seems you are thinking that HDD vs SSD in the context of encryption is different, but it is functionally the same. Any perceived performance difference by percentage on HDD would be the same or better on SSD.

I don’t think you’d perceive any slowdowns from encryption unless you’re doing very specific types of work and hitting the disk util hard, and even it would probably only be a few percentage points of difference between encrypted and unencrypted.

You can find versions benchmarks online to compare different filesystem types and settings compared.

There’s a lot to unpack here, but the title is sensational. So:

1. This doesn’t expand any powers the DOJ has

2. This doesn’t allow them to just indict whomever they want

3. All the skilled litegators at DOJ have left the building, and only idiots remain.

4. This group they THINK they can disband, cannot be disbanded, and their work cannot stop, so they THINK they are just going to sidestep it and do whatever Plam Blundy wants, but that’s not going to happen for a number of reasons:

5. Judges are slapping the DOJ down and admonishing them left and right in court

6. They still need FEDERAL judges to even bring an indictment, WITH EVIDENCE OF A CRIME, in order to get a warrant, and then maybe arrest somebody.

7. Federal Judges absolutely hate having their time wasted, and this DOJ has done nothing but waste their time

8. Judges DO NOT have to keep wasting their time with the DOJ requesting indictments if they continue to prove in court that are acting in bad faith (mala fides). So maybe one or two tries at this, and the DOJ will never allow them to file for this bullshit again.

Blondie thinks she found something to scare people…nah. They can’t do shit with this except make themselves look foolish, and get smacked down in court some more.

…why?

It’s probably more to do with your game resolution not being registered as matching the primary or extended display workspace. There are ways to force this, but with a mod it’s probably a crapshoot. Worst case scenario just unplug one monitor, and make sure the game resolution matches the desktop resolution when you start it.

Sounds like Jellfyfin+Jellybook is your winner then. The server portion of audiobook or ebook hosting isn’t going to be giving you any game changing features. They serve files.

The client you use is going to make or break your experience here, so just go with the easiest setup on the server side, and then run through some clients to see what works best.

The first step was actually pardoning those J6 criminals. He’s going to try and get them deputized to be his lil’Hitler SS, you watch.

Which TV personality is going to get installed in this one? Taking all bets.

They do not.

You seem to be thinking they can just do all the crazy shit they say out loud just cuz. That’s not how it works.

Pot meet Kettle.