How should messages been logged when the system is going down already? Disks have been unmounted already? No way.

nvme drives are no different from spinning rust or SSDs. On some older mainboards the bios must be prepared to support nmve's.

@greenjeans: Why do I consider graphical root login as security risk?

Here is my answer: I am on Daedalus with Lightdm/Cinnamon. I log in as user, the root account exists and has a password. I do not use sudo except for Veracrypt.

For root access I can either call up graphical programs like gparted where root access is granted by policykit, start a root terminal, or perform file copy/paste activities in Nemo via "Open as admin" if required. I do get along with these features very well. These features support everything I ever needed to do with root privilegues. Running root on the desktop is not required in my opinion.

BTW: everything started because a beginner in the German Debian forum complained about not being able to easily work as root despite the access being possible, something with LXDE and Lightdm.

The naive standard user who logs in as root has all possibilities to damage and wreck his system. Maybe "security" is not a perfect term for these risks. Well, somebody with deep knowledge and experience will easily get a long with root on the desktop. Me too.

In the IRC chat somebody said that root on the desktop isn't forbidden, just discouraged.

In my opinion lightdm shouldn't allow root access per default. It should be locked, and the experienced user may open this gate.

PS: other DMs like sddm and gdm inhibit root login.

Hi kapqa, I think it makes sense to open a new thread for your topic. I don't see any relation to the old thread.

To my experience, this only works between Linux and Linux, not from Linux to Windows. There is some incompatibility.

The firmware that is loaded by the kernel is located in /usr/lib/firmware/mediatek. Check what you got in there. The dat file is something else but firmware.

My sshd is configured for no root login.

Now I am looking for the same feature in lightdm. I failed to find something, also in the greeter.

I consider a graphical root login as a security risk.

I don't know how new this adapter is. The firmware is from 2023, two years old. In any case installing the backports firmware is worth a try.

All distros will use the build by Mozilla. Nobody will compile without SSE3 nowadays.

If you can't use one of the alternatives, the only way is to buy a more recent laptop or PC.

If you use a desktop like Mate, Cinnamon, XFCE or like, install pipewire to switch between sources and sinks.

Alsa is not userfriendly and lacks everything required to easily control Audio hardware.

Same on my Daedalus: 340 files since installation.

New installation, the files do not take very much space. New machine ID on every boot.

That N100 is a quite weak CPU. Everything requiring CPU performance will delay the response.