MangoPenguin

What's the alternative though, we have Chrome and Firefox as choices. Chrome is far worse than some issues with Firefox around CEO pay.

To install at minimum you'll need to likely shrink existing partitions and create new ones for linux if you don't want to wipe the drive, that would be a dual-boot setup with Windows still installed along side. Or you can just wipe the drive entirely and have only Linux.

Regarding the files you should already have backups of anything important, if you don't, set it up ASAP.

Messing with partitions can easily cause data loss if something goes wrong.

You also never know when hardware failure, malware, power surges, lightning strikes, or whatever other disaster will happen and cause data loss. 1 copy of files might as well be 0 copies.

It's a public site that'll be backed up regularly, what kind of important data would you be putting out publicly?

My samsung S21 has the option to restrict an app and prevent it from ever running in the background, maybe that would do it if your phone has a similar option?

Maybe, the average user really doesn't understand backups though and would be more likely to ignore it then.

I'm always conflicted on this kind of thing, because for every person annoyed that it's asking there's a bunch that are complaining that they lost all their photos because their phone was stolen or something like that, and had no idea that they need to backup their stuff.

How did they end up thinking that everything must be done with terminal while using Ubuntu?

Most guides on installing things or help on fixing things will offer terminal commands, so I can see how that could certainly lead to that feeling as a new user.

Also depending on the DE and stuff certain very basic obvious settings are not available in the GUI, like fractional scaling on KDE which has to be done by editing some config file first.

Couldn't tiling just be done with an app like how PowerToys FancyZones does it on Windows? That way anyone could just install it when wanted.

Awfully rude just because you don't like something that you have full control of deciding to use or not.

That makes sense as packing for a bunch of distros is a lot of work vs just using Flatpak.

Should be able to do it with Crowdsec

You could also place the same page as a hidden link on your home page.