bizdelnick

That's correct answer. If you did not write anything in the space you freed (i.e. did not create a partition there AND format it), your data is not damaged.

It is.

Don't use sudo $EDITOR, use sudoedit.

I agree that autocrap is the worst build system in use now. However writing plain Makefiles is not an option for projects that are more complex than hello world. It is very difficult to write them portably (between various OSes, compilers and make implementations) and to support cross compiling. That's why developers used to write configure scripts that evolved to autocrap.

Happily we have better alternatives like cmake and meson (I personally prefer cmake and don't like meson, but it is also a good build system solving the complexity problem).

There is a browser working natively in any system. I don't see any point in bundling a web app together with a browser and calling it a "native" app. The only difference is that you have no address bar in that case.

Qt and Electron are different technologies

Yes.

that achieve somewhat different goals

No.

Alternative for what? I never used electron apps and I don't see any reason for that. If you are a developer, try Qt.

You are lucky. My laptop's fingerprint scanner did not work out of the box. I also had troubles with audio ("subwoofer" was disabled) and WiFi (losing connection). This all was fixed in later Ubuntu updates, but I had to wipe out Dell's spyware manually. So I'd say Dell with preinstalled Ubuntu is the same as any laptop with FreeDOS: you have to install the OS you need instead preinstalled one and troubleshoot all the driver issues. No guarantees that all hardware is Linux compatible.

% xz --version 
xz (XZ Utils) 5.4.1
liblzma 5.4.1
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I hope so.

What's your distro and how did you check needed libraries? I guess that liblzma.so can be needed by libzstd.so in your system.

% libtree /usr/bin/zstd
/usr/bin/zstd 
├── libz.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
├── liblz4.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
└── liblzma.so.5 [ld.so.conf]
% lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:        12
Codename:       bookworm
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