For cli stuff I really like the tldr program (Site. It will give you a list of common use cases for a given program.

The reboot probably sent him straight to a virtual console.

Im willing to give them a pass on that since they don't vender lock the notes I'm taking.

I remember inteltechniques.com having a checklist you could do. But it sounds like a lot of work to manually remove your data from a hundred sites.

You could have a look here: https://choosealicense.com/

Is it me, or is that pretty anti consumer?

Imo deferderating should be a last resort. And so far I haven't seen any excessive cases of people coming over and breaking the rules of this instance.

You could look at KVM switches which allow you to switch input with the touch of a button, although they could be pricey.

Second idea that comes to mind is installing something like parsec on your laptop and just remoting into it from your desktop.

It's interesting how close they are to one another. I don't understand why there is a Dropbox column and didn't see it mentioned anywhere else. Another question I have is how much RAM the system has in total, as that seems to affect consumption.

I mainly write C. I really like Intellij Clion because it uses CMake as project files. It also makes tools like valgrind, perf and gdb available without having to go to the terminal.

Oh yeah it was discovered that they had backdoors in their motherboards. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-motherboards-come-with-a-firmware-backdoor

I'd switch out the ram kit for that is 6000 MHz, as that is the sweet spot for AMD (link to igor's lab article on this). I'd also check that the kit you end up getting has been tested by the motherboard manufacturer as DDR 5 is still rather new.