Msm flash tool

If that’s all you need. I bet you could just run it from WINE. I updated my PS5 controller using the PlayStation flash tool or whatever it’s called. I used Bottles to do all the WINE stuff. Just installed the flash tool and it worked like it was Windows. Pretty shocked if I’m being honest.

What is your swappiness? If you have all that ram you should not be swapping. You are probably still at a swappiness for an average system, 60. Try 10. sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10

Observations.

I’m convinced they all live in the moms’ basement eating chicken tendies.

Negative. Windows on Desktop uses vendor lock-in to maintain it’s user base. It’s been that way for nearly 30 years. People only think they are choosing Windows themselves. Anywhere Microsoft can not enforce vendor lock-in, Linux dominates. Even IoT, a brand new market (well it was brand new ten years ago), 80% dominated by Linux. Microsoft had to make Windows free for IoT and 9" or less devices just to try and be competitive. People only think everything is made for Windows, because OEMs are forced to sell a Windows license with every PC or lose their volume licensing deals. That means every OEM has to spend engineering dollars on Windows drivers, software, and testing. When your business has very thin margins, you can’t afford to have second or even third engineering efforts for competitor OSes. Imagine how Linux would be if PC companies were spending engineering dollars on Linux for the last 30 years. Right now the money comes primarily from server sales money. If there was demand for Linux on Desktop in the workplace, there would be tons of competing FOSS Group Policy implementations.

They are all pretty good. I usually go with Ubuntu server + Docker Compose and turn on live kernel patches. If it’s not getting exposed to the internet, you probably don’t care about live kernel patching. What ever server distro you choose, Docker Compose makes it all easy. If you are used to Red Hat, I think RHEL has a few solid derivatives that you’ll be easily familiar with.

You can make a live thumb drive that will walk you through. The installers for server look the same as they did 20+ years ago.

I might be there with you. Going to try avoiding the distros that attract the mental-illness crowd first. Maybe I have to go back to Slackware.

I used the Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 for 7 or 8 years as my main computer. I used Ubuntu on it the whole time so it always felt fast and new. The only reason I had to upgrade, I started running more and more docker containers for the project I was doing and the Yoga Pro 2 just didn’t have the cores and ram. I gave it to my cousin. I switched to a mini-pc (lots of ram and lots of cores) and bought a portable 4k monitor. It’s lame that the whole Yoga Pro 2 had to be replaced, when all I needed was more cores and more ram. Now I just buy a new mini-pc when I need. Or just a new monitor when I need, etc. A laptop would have a battery, but I don’t need that; just the portability. But hands down would have just upgraded my Yoga Pro 2 if I could have.

I’m not a Fedora user, but seems like a middle ground between Bazzite and Fedora for your desktop, could be to use distrobox to have the mutable part. I don’t know exactly how much configuration fedora needs, maybe none. Anyways, distrobox is a good tool to have no matter what distro or type.

I meant rclone. You might be able to do it with rsync too, but rclone is the one I was thinking of. I actually setup my own self hosted Nextcloud server. Then I used rclone to sync everything from gdrive and onedrive to my Nextcloud servers block storage. Then I just use rclone, scheduled on a cronjob, to back up that block storage to storj.io. Anyways, worse case scenario, with rclone, you got something.

If you boot off the thumbdrive to the live OS, you can use Gparted to resize the partition. I’m not sure what Mint has for syncing Google Drive, but I’m sure it has something. Worse case, absolutely worse case you could use rsync. That should really not be necessary though. Gnome has an online accounts area and you setup your online drives there like Google Drive and OneDrive and all that. I’ve never used Mint before but, Mate or Cinnamon probably have something similar. I’d be shocked if they didn’t.