infjarchninja

When my kids were in their teens they had windows machines.

They had windows machines, because all their friends had windows machines.

you know what kids are like, click on every thing. oblivious to danger.

malware, viruses, the lot. of course, good old idiot dad had to sort it out. spending hours running anti-virus programs and malwarebytes etc

I got really annoyed one day and while they were at school. I totally removed windows and installed linux mint xfce on both their machines.

Set everything up for them exactly how I used my linux machine.

Once they were online, had their web browser open, found they could login in to all the things they liked and still enage with their friends.

I never heard a peep from them. no more anti-virus scans or malware.

It was heaven.

Ive used Linux for 20 years and never had a virus.

Thank you

I will check it out again if and when I need to do a clean out.

I do create a lot of duplicates as I move and transfer files between 3 laptops.

Hey Dessalines

I never got on with rmlint. It never felt safe to me.

I found fclones to be much better and safer.

Plus there is a GUI version for those not using the terminal

Gui Version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones-gui

CLI version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

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Usage

fclones offers separate commands for finding and removing files. This way, you can inspect the list of found files before applying any modifications to the file system.

group – identifies groups of identical files and prints them to the standard output

remove – removes redundant files earlier identified by group

link – replaces redundant files with links (default: hard links)

dedupe – does not remove any files, but deduplicates file data by using native copy-on-write capabilities of the file system (reflink)

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I did actually test this by creating a directory with duplicates.

test_dupes 186 files

scanned directory for duplicates and created dupes.txt

fclones group . >>dupes.txt

dupes.txt

remove duplicates to another directory

/home/user/Desktop/dupes

fclones move target_dir <dupes.txt

fclones move /home/user/Desktop/dupes <dupes.txt

test_dupes now has 173 files

I completely forgot about endeavourOS.

I used to have it on my gaming rig. Pretty desktop.

just remembered arco-linux too, but I think thats been discontinued.

Ho sfanculato Mozilla e Firefox 4 anni fa. Prima muoiono entrambi, meglio è.

transalation for you inglish:

I ditched Mozilla and Firefox four years ago. The sooner they both die, the better.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-adding-copilot-chatbot-features

Try Librewolf, doesnt have ai

As you are a noob, avoid arch.

It maybe great for your self esteem telling people you are an arch user, but vanilla arch is not a simple distro. it takes a lot of work.

So, unless you have a lot of linux and terminal experience try something else.

If you want to play with an arch based distro there is manjaro.

I have manjaro installed on my old Lenovo T450 for years and it works great.

Alternatively give linux mint XFCE a try. I usually install this for people who are new users of linux.

or I have MX-linux installed on the Mrs laptop. she has the lenovo T470.

install guides:

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

https://itsfoss.com/install-manjaro-linux/

https://www.debugpoint.com/install-mx-linux/

if you want to try vanilla arch

https://itsfoss.com/install-arch-linux/

for me

locate --version

returns:

plocate 1.1.23

sudo apt-get install plocate

not locate