ReallyOldLurker

"My experience getting older relatives to use Mint has not gone well. The most common is their reliance on Microsoft Office"

I was asked by an older friend to put Linx on their computer because they were too frusterated with MS Windows. She also used MS Word and Powerpoint a lot. I said that I had installed a different version of Offce because it was all I had at the time, so the menus would be slightly different. It was three years before she discovering that LibreOffice was not Microsoft Office. By that time it didn't matter.

My scrollbar changes in Debian:

1. as root, edit /etc/environment and add: GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0

2. in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css add: .scrollbar.vertical slider, scrollbar.vertical slider {min-width: 10px;}

> Only one thing I wish I could set, allow windows to cover the 'bar'. Yes, I can make the bar auto-hide, but I cannot have a portion of it covered by a window.

If I understand your comment correctly, right click on the Panel --> Panel Preferences, Display tab. Checkmark "Keep panel above windows". This allows windows to use the panel section of the screen. Combine with "Automatically hide the panel: intelligently".

I was allowed to go down two short tunnels, one led to part of the underground drainage (the end of it was blocked so I didn't get to look at the drainage itself). Overall it seems the same. From the top of the pyramids in the back, we could look at the remains of the palace area, but it was roped off and I was told that the government was gearing up for archeological work there.The guide I was with talked a lot about how precise the courts were leveled to drain rainwater away and how after all these centuries the drainage still works perfectly.

Wow! That sure brings back memories. I've been there twice, 2011 & 2012. Congratulations. I'm very impressed.

RE: The only states in the US where that is the case are Wyoming and Montana

That is absolutely incorrect. In Oregon, from the town that I live in, it is at least 45 minutes to the next one, regardless of the type of car or the road traveled. Keeping at a legal speed limit it is really an hour or more to the nearest charger.

Agreed. I prefer proper packaging and a clean system. I remove any flatpak services that get installed. So far there is a total of two AppImages that I've ever needed to use and those ran inside a firejail sandbox.

No, the reason (in my case) was because the public schools prioritize social agendas over academic quality. My kids can do advanced math. My neighbor's kids estimate or guess. I hope the public schools in my area get de-funded. They are a waste of tax payer money. My choice had nothing to do with who is poor or rich.

I use the nearly the same.

- Zim-Wiki for items or procedures that I refer to or repeat often. Zim-Wiki is mostly plain text and transportable, but handles embedding small screenshots. I keep another Zim-Wiki notebook for small projects or investigations. - A simple text file list for in progress items or projects that I am working that have more or less an end date or specific goal - A simple text file list for to-do items, vague plans, and links to check. This file changes almost daily. - A simple text file list for wish list items and purchase ideas > syncthing on all my devices to keep all them all current

In my paid work I have a few additional things, but not much more. The most important is a separate subdirectory for each project's files. Structure it so that it is ready to use in a retrospective repository when finished. Refer back to it often when planning similar projects.

I used to "hoard" knowledge, had a large library, sets of sorted bookmarks files, etc., but I'm finding that I need less and less of that. I think the biggest change took place when I made a short project once with the goal of making my home computing portable and self-hosting. That really simplified a lot.

A big help is being consistent in a format and structure that makes sense to you regardless of the tools you migrate through.