These aren’t good reasons

How do the matrix modules work?

If you could fine one, then maybe

You’re probably right, ashamed I didn’t notice though

Why do you want a successor?

Is it on F-droid?

F-droid has a few decent ones, but it seems it varies by country quite a bit?

dtrx is the way to do it. It’s short for “do the right extraction”, and it just works.

Also, all you have to remember for tar is “-xtract -zee -vucking -files” (extract the fucking files, but first letters only)

That’s a text editor, not a word processor

Switch to Android is a good first step. Being able to run verified open source software with F-Droid is a good first step!

What is FLOSS?

Can someone explain what this is/does?

Silicon Valley middle out compression, but for real

Clonezilla is the answer. It has all the options, and just works right the first time

The SSD memory cell failure mode is to retain the last written contents, so I actually don’t think I agree. In the SMART diagnostics, it shows how many of these bad cells are present, which is a reasonable indicator of impending failure from age

SSDs are way more reliable than spinning disks, especially in a laptop that gets banged around. HDDs win in only one category: capacity per price.

Was it once a joke?

It’s a config flag in /etc/fstab

Sometimes it’s okay to use something you’re familiar with and not have to learn (Debian). Fair enough on the snaps though; need to look into them before I form an opinion.

Why away from Ubuntu/Debian?