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Use either BTRFS (no idea if Mint supports that) or LVM with EXT4 or F2FS. F2FS is used in Android, stable, fast, simple, flash optimized. Ext4 is also based.
Dont separate / from /home if you dont use the above setup. If you do, partitions can resize dynamically so no problems here.
Installing multiple OSses is messy, avoid it.
Windows Updates may remove GRUB and eat the partition. If the partition is still there, you could reflash GRUB with dd.
Absolutely do it.
Most often you only encrypt the / partition and not the boot. And no you dont touch Windows so no issues.
Tons of people use GDrive and Dropbox. It supposedly works.
On a traditional Distro I would leave the system as it is and install everything from Flathub. It is preinstalled and configured on Linux.
Traditional Distros are extremely messy and build up Entropy, i.e. randomness. You just do random shit everywhere and after a few months or years you have issues that nobody can reproduce and you need to reinstall.
That is why I am happily on Fedora Atomic Desktops (Kinoite, KDE). OSTree is heaven.
If you stick to Flatpaks you will not change the system at all, the apps are separated. So it will likely not break at all.
Ironically, while the "immutable" (managed) systems are used with Flatpak a lot, it is the traditional ones that should use it, as they dont have mechanisms like
rpm-ostree reset.So yes, absolutely.
Have a look at my list of recommended apps (which I planned on updating today and a damn browser crash destroyed 2 hours of work...)
I recommend Librewolf, great project with good usability.
Meanwhile I will some day fix up my arkenfox automation which makes any Firefox version as secure and private.
Don't recommend btrfs 💀 especially to newcomers
If it is the default on the distro they intend to use, then, by all means, they should definitely go with it. Btrfs has been really stable for a pretty long time anyways. Just don't use it for RAID 5/6 and you'd be absolutely fine.
You don't even need raid for everything to shit the bed https://rsc.vet/board/viewtopic.php?t=133
BTRFS is simpler to setup than LVM and does the same. On Fedora it just works.
But I want to do speed comparisons and may switch to LVM with F2FS
See above link
That site is down
Okay not anymore. Interesting and for sure problematic. I never had this issue and it may already be resolved.
This seems like a very specific bug and they were using Debian 12, which to be fair was okay-ish new back then.