I have no experience in sysadmin work, but have some understanding of the Linux tools used. Can you eli5 what exactly is it that AD does? (Feel free not to, I just couldn't find a good article, so decided to ask.)
I hope you're joking. If anything, Rust makes error handling easier by returning them as values using the Result monad. As someone else pointed out, they literally used unwrap in their code, which basically means "panic if this ever returns error". You don't do this unless it's impossible to handle the error inside the program, or if panicking is the behavior you want due to e.g. security reasons.
Even as an absolute amateur, whenever I post any Rust to the public, the first thing I do is get rid of unwrap as much as possible, unless I intentionally want the application to crash. Even then, I use expect instead of unwrap to have some logging. This is definitely the work of some underpaid intern.
KDE is great but do give some "better" distros like Fedora, or EndeavourOS (basically Arch) a try. Canonical, the company in control of Ubuntu, is a little bit shady.
I have a Framework 13 with the super button instead of Windows button, but I've set it up similarly to how the Windows buttons works in Windows. Pressing it by itself opens the KDE app menu, super+D goes to desktop, super+L locks screen, super+[ or ] moves around virtual desktops, super+W shows overview, supe+T shows tiles config, super+arrows do snapping, super+PgUp/PgDn/X for maximize/minimize/close etc.
Welcome to the club. Don't worry too much about setting it up perfectly in your first attempt. You're gonna rewrite your whole config every year-ish anyway. (Or is that just me? 😥) Also, try Neovim. It'll be a drop-in replacement for your current config. But Lua is just a superior language compared to Vimscript, so you'll have a much better performance in the future. You also get all the sweet LSP and treesitter features.
Yeah, same. I like to code in Neovim, and OOP just doesn't make any sense in there. Fortunately, I don't have to code in Java often. I had to install Android Studio just because I needed to make a small bugfix in an app, it was so annoying. The fix itself was easy, but I had to spend around an hour trying to figure out where the relevant code exactly is.
As an amateur with some experience in the functional style of programming, anything that does SOLID seems so unreadable to me. Everything is scattered, and it just doesn’t feel natural. I feel like you need to know how things are named, and what the whole thing looks like before anything makes any sense. I thought SOLID is supposed to make code more local. But at least to my eyes, it makes everything a tangled mess.
I agree with the other comments saying that you don't really need secure boot. But if you're like me, you might be tempted to get it to work anyway. In that case, here's a (hopefully) useful link.
I try to donate to a couple of projects every month. I just use too many FOSS projects to commit to only a few and donate regularly. So, it keeps changing. Some recurring ones are FFmpeg, KDE, Signal, Jellyfin, CoMaps, and Wireguard.
This, but I use bat since it seems to be faster for this.
Edit: I should clarify that I only use bat as the MANPAGER, since bat uses less under the hood for paging anyway. But with support for a built-in pager in the new release, perhaps it makes sense to set it as the PAGER too.
I like quadlets, but I wish podlet could handle translating external networks. Right now, it just fails, and needs manual intervention. Also, afaik, there's no way to preserve comments when translating.
For me, it's the opposite. I vastly prefer the compose syntax. In general, I guess I prefer yaml based syntax to toml or json based ones. It's just more readable due to the indentation.
I have no experience in sysadmin work, but have some understanding of the Linux tools used. Can you eli5 what exactly is it that AD does? (Feel free not to, I just couldn't find a good article, so decided to ask.)