@jesu@asa Piracy is theft and murder with the help of a boat and carries all of those negative connotations.
If you don't believe that sharing music with your neighbors is morally equivalent to attacking a ship, then you should refer to it as sharing information with your neighbors.
@asa anti-piracy measures, 100% serious with this reply. Apple started this perverse trend with itunes wiping your entire library somewhat at random if it contained "too much" pirated music or if they suspected it was pirated. this has hit people with 50k+ tracks built up over decades, longtime apple users who 95+% of the time ripped their own cds, some of which only had their own music and rightfully-owned music. It's deranged to even attempt to decide such a thing since two mp3s will almost always be exactly the same if ripped with the same encoder, encoder version, and source material, or if it was purchased on a legitimate site then the audio file never changes *ever.*
There is testdisk, sleuthkit and GNU ddrescue, although such kind of tools can only useful immediately after the deletion happens, with you mounting the drive as ro, otherwise the deleted files tend to start getting overwritten.
@kaia If you shut down asap, you will have a chance of being able to boot off a LiGNUx live image and recover some of the files via photorec (although that recovers *all* of the files unless).
Many fish can't resists delicious looking wriggly fingers and that works out fine as long as the fish in the lake don't have teeth strong enough to bite off your fingers.
@jesu@kaia I just don’t have time to deal with compiling stuff and whatnot. I’m very busy and I think Ubuntu is a good middle ground for me at the moment.
@asa@kaia modifying config files as a casual daily driver in any linux is easier than being a windows power user IMO, just regedit and device manager and windows update give me more headache than an entire gentoo install does, and honestly, if you're in it to have 60k packages instead of 10-20k packages, I'm not sure what your aim is. Chances are, you know how to compile software so the 5-20 softwares not bundled into suse are able to be compiled from git, and I'd be willing to bet they aren't included in debuntu anyway–and you only have to compile if the devs don't provide a binary release with the code (most do)...
really, my complaint about redhat, debuntu and arch is its terrible package management strategies and system idiosyncrasies that end up breaking a system 3-20 times a year. Often the base system can be broken in annoying ways out of the box on a fresh install, mainly with Gnome and KDE software IME, and I dunno, I don't mind if someone uses gnome or kde, but there is simply a lot of goofiness, and IME on any of the three big bsds or gentoo they are more stable than on redhat/debuntu/arch, which says a lot (nothing good) about those systems.
Enjoy what you use though, I don't want to be misunderstood is why I'm explaining this further...
@jesu@kaia Im not trying to spend the rest of my life modifying config files, Ubuntu has the largest amount of up to date packages available and it just werks (within the limitations of Linux)
@asa@kaia do yourself a favor and avoid any *buntu, or any debian based system like mint, and also avoid arch and its derivatives, they all have many idiosyncrasies that end up causing more problems than you will want to solve. If you want something a bit more stable and also friendly *and* rolling release, try OpenSUSE, it has a sane packaging team and isn't so utterly broken. If you're just trying it out, then I suppose an ubuntu live disk is reasonable, but you could do the same with suse...
@asa@kaia just to have it disappear at a later time sooner than before.... If it's win10 consider some sort of privacy-enhancing script, but that probably means stripping windows update.... your call: stick with problems with windows, pay a premium for lock-in and shiny toy with apple, suffer learning linux and dealing with poetteringware, or suffer stripping crud from linux/bsd and learning os sysadmin at the same time, no option is good, honestly, the computer itself and the os and software running on it has been spyware for at least 15 years