I also never used version pinning in debian

I don’t fall for this, I switch back to Windows

I also found this, It’s for a RaspberryPi but surely can be adapted:

https://gist.github.com/seffs/2395ca640d6d8d8228a19a9995418211

You can look at the source of the snap and check what it does

I don’t have any experience with your exact question.

But I would look into xinit and try if you can start just mpv.

If this doesn’t work look for a slim WM and configer it that the applications are displayed in fullscreen and launch mpv after the WM.

Probably any of the tiling window managers should work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager

I guess all of the mentioned are for rich people?

I think the licesing models and pricing are more interesting.

Thats what I would choose, from left to right:

RHEL, Mint, Arch, LFS

Might also switch the last two

RHEL

+1 for nix, but I wouldn’t recommend it as a first distro

If you create an image of the disk in the current state from a live boot or an other machine. You can try fixing it without having to risk making things worse

I agree on your take, but I don’t think that “future scaling” is a concern for the most home users.

Yeah, it is a lot of initial work, but once you got your shell.nix or flake.nix in place it is really nice, to not have to deal with different dependencies and versions in different projects.

But you can also archive the same on any distro with the nix package manager.

Switching to nixos?

How could you tell it was secure?

Just mount it to a fixed location in /etc/fstab, but use a mount option like nofail or nobootwait (quick search showed that this is the option for ubuntu users), so your machine still boots when the drive is not connected

Maybe he is just seeding Linux ISOs on the private trackers

Just use any distro you like and install the packages you need. Done.

But for real, depends on your use case I use arch on my dev machine and you get nearly every package in the AUR

Install gentoo