I usually recommend Linux Mint. Its based on Ubuntu, so when searching for help online everything that works for Ubuntu should work for mint. Another Advantage mint has is, that it has quite a lot of UIs for a lot of applications/settings. This means, that you dont have to work with the terminal that much when doing something. However, I Am highly recommending that in the long term you should try to find your way around in the terminal. A lit if help that you will find online is based around the terminal, and knowing what commands do is quite valuable.
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I would highly recommend against installing arch AS your first distro. You could go with EndeavourOS (or some other Arch based Distros), but plain arch will be very unforgiving if you dont know what you are doing.
You may want to look into how the xz backdoor has been discovered. That backdoor was very well hidden. Implementing a crypto mining malware would be blatantly obvious and yes, people do in fact look at such code
They were deported hours before a court ruled, that they can not be deported to Hungary, due to them being non binary and Hungary being very anti LGBTQ+ and the fact that this means, that they could not expect a fair trial in Hungary.
Believe it or not, but ed (or in Addition sed) gets used quite a lot when editing files or strings in bash scripts.
Planned on doing that
Iron Sky. Its completely shut, but funny AS hell.
I do hate myself, but not that much
How do I selfhost my bedbugs?
Weed is clearly superior (at lest for me)
Yeah, that's my experience too. When we did this in school we always defined from which side we were approaching the function.