found a few articles/commentaries/guides/etc but haven't read them yet:
(providing them here for the convenience of all)

https://www.kicad.org/download/linux/

https://linuxvox.com/blog/kicad-linux/

whenever i see designations like that(n100) i recollect the old atom n270 stuff:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/614vs5157/cpu_test_info.html

very much appreciate Cameron Kaiser's latest:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/jef-raskins-cul-de-sac-and-the-quest-for-the-humane-computer/

strongly encourage visits to Cameron Kaiser's website:

https://www.floodgap.com/

also see What's In The Retro Room and Server Room

as well as the fun had by all unboxing the Raptor Talos II

or perhaps you'd enjoy a trip down the gopher hole

geminispace?

Super Dimension Fortress?

enjoy!

thought of another interesting webpage(not Cameron Kaiser):
https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/

major kudos and hat-tip to @Andre4freedom for expending their finite, valuable time and energy to actually post...what the rest of us were thinking.

this thread makes me want to dig out my Q6600 and Q8200 quad-core machines...iirc they still have beowulf on spinning rust...sounds like a rainy day endeavour.

transcript of Alan Watts: The Individual & The World

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/individual-and-the-world

pro-tip: if you toggle to "reader view" in firefox you can then fairly easily select all and cut/paste into a simple text document/file for offline reading(roughly a 150KB file / 24 page pdf)

more: the link referenced in the previous post is probably not the best offered at yt(commenters complained of numerous ads/commercials through the near 4hr audio-only "video" although i didn't personally sample said 4hrs)

another possible resource:

https://archive.org/details/alanwattscollection

speaking of surprises reminded me of this regarding ACL breakage:

https://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/fix_busted_acls_faster_with_libadacl.xhtml

thanks to everyone who is talented enough to continue to investigate "the borking"

hopefully a fix can be found

re: wayland reminds of a recent past post:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=57316#p57316

this reminded me of a known expliot/vulnerability that has been around for awhile:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/just-about-every-windows-and-linux-device-vulnerable-to-new-logofail-firmware-attack/

always good to keep a reasonable threat detection posture.

looks like mdadm has been in debian/ubuntu since at least debian 3 and ubuntu 5.10 based on this webpage:

https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_software_raid

so it is possible that an original or a remix may/might possibly cause these failures/issues

using DDG Lite and searching for ubuntu 8.04 mdadm finds numerous results, just one of which is:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootDegradedRaid

which appears to have similar questions regarding out of the box operations

@fsmithred, fortunately there would have been few of these "situations" however it is "non-zero" and one must wonder how many borked systems were never accurately diagnosed regarding the exact cause of failure(after all, the innocent live-distro user believes wholeheartedly that booting their liveusb thumbdrive in an unknowing/unsuspecting owners/users machine doesn't change anything on the computer itself...because that is what the distros claim...a claim we now know is sometimes false)