LMDE comes with some nice packages that just make your life easier. It is basically Debian but… with sane defaults

LDME does not supports PPAs

If you leave alone the haters, Ubuntu is doing great. Mint LDME also fantastic if you wish to have a rock solid base.

Cast it into the fire!!

Yeah Futurama

Very good read. Thanks for sharing!

Looks sick!

But considerably different compared to Obsidian in a lot of small ways. It was a deal breaker for me

The results are still useful today. There are a few basic measures of security that simply do not change and allows you to understand if your setup is secure enough to, say, run a bastion host or not

That is just a customized version of Dash to Dock. You can move the dock on the bottom if you want or make it auto hide. The same functionality you can expect from Dash to dock but with the Ubuntu theme applied

Jesus Christ!

What happens when you get in? You need to let them access everything ?