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you can disown a process and have it run in the background.  That should guarantee that it stays running after you logout.
 
nohup <insert command here> &; disown;  

Debian isn't really considered "easy" as far as Linux distributions go... and they are stubborn about non free software. Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary are all much more plug and play and morally flexible than Debian.
If you really want to use Debian you can download the driver package from another machine and install it manually.
sudo dpkg -i /path/to/deb/file  

use tmux, it lets you do this and just makes the nerminal better

If you're doing a school presentation I'd focus on the history of the Linux kernel itself and the GNU/FSF philosophy. The latter has been a strong driving force behind what we call "Linux" (but is actually GNU/Linux if you want to be precise) today. Leave out the technical details, unless you're in university for a CS course neither you nor your audience will have the background required to address it properly. Maybe mention some of the major distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora/Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Arch...) and the main differences between them.

Talk about Unix philosophy and design. Every object is a file, programs should be small, do one task and work together.. that sort of stuff.

(Fellow Dane here)
 
For starters, "linux" has come a long way from being only for tech-heads. The latest version of Ubuntu and Mint, for example, are as plug and play as Windows. If your machine is sufficiently powerful, install VMWare Workstation Player version 14, and install a VM of Mint, and try it out for yourself. You'll get a much better understanding for your report, than reading some website and not understanding what is going on.

do your research (lots of it) and dont get blinded by your own or other people's idealism.

Fedora is a good idea. Wendel uses that a lot so probably for a reason?

You can find all the information you need here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rsync#As_a_backup_utility

Assuming the service file was written correctly, then yes, adding the @prod part means you won't start or enable any @test parts and vice versa

You can pass the partition as an existing drive according to stackoverflow.   Alternatively, if you have the space, I copied my windows partition to a .img file, then used qemu-img to convert that to a qcow2 file.  I then used qcow2 image for the vm and expanded my Linux partition to fill out my entire hard drive

you need to install the whole libvirt package not just the bin.

Other issue is from the FreeNAS forums CyberJock will fight you to death on the topic. He's often quoted and referred to in write-ups in FreeNAS guides. Since FreeNAS, I believe, brought ZFS into the community's hands (in mass) it's the go-to for information. Even when given an article from Matt (something), a developer of ZFS - he still argues. Every time you trace ZFS memory requirements (ECC or Amount) I'd argue 90% of the time it goes back to CyberJock. He's knowledgeable but he's also very stubborn.

Haha love it, picturing that in my mind right now . If only Mythbusters were still around to try it.

Thanks for posting this - I myself have been guilty of perpetuating this myth, as it was very widely spread, even among ZFS forums, posts, guides, etc. I took that information as valid, since I thought I was getting it from "experts" of that software.
 
As for the ECC thing? I personally recommend it, if you can afford it in the budget, for a NAS/File System build, but it's certainly not mandatory.
 
I looked up research on this, and found info from a White Paper that Google put out about it's data centers, and the end result was that a single-bit RAM error was about as common as once every 1.5 years. Now, this was per module, so the more modules, the higher the risk, but still.
 
And having a multi-bit RAM error was about as likely as shooting a bullet out of the air with a smaller bullet, while doing a one-handed hand-stand on top of a unicycle at high speed (We're talking like one in several million chances here, if not even higher)

there's some guy on the forum running freenas with zfs on something with like 2 or 4 gigs of ram i think.

I'd like to throw this out there since I see it all the time and can't be bothered fighting it, so here it is from a ZFS developer.
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5u3385/linus_tech_tips_unboxes_1_pb_of_seagate/ddrngar/
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5u3385/linus_tech_tips_unboxes_1_pb_of_seagate/ddrh5iv/
 
What makes it even worse is I see those large memory requirements being advised even when deduplication is not going to be used. So please spread the word when necessary .
 
P.S. I know ram is cheap so 16GB is a fine starting point, just please never use the 1GB-5GB of ram per TB advice ever again.

You just aren't trying hard enough

You just aren't trying hard enough

Fedora has gotten a lot easier to install. Especially with Fedora 28, since they've loosened up on the whole DRM thing

I didn't stop gaming because I couldn't figure out how to run my games, I just found that messing around with different distros was more interesting and a better use of time.

Mostly because I can get it to do what I want it to do and almost nothing else. On a GNU/Linux system (aka not android) you have a lot more agency on your user experience than you do in windows or mac os; this can be daunting for new users but once you have a bit of experience it can be liberating. My linux setup looks (and acts) nothing like windows and the more I use it, the more I realize how much windows has been getting in my way. What I do, I can do faster and more efficiently on my linux machine (except play games of course).
 
I also generally agree with much of what the free software movement stands for and I like to live by that when I can (without going insane in the process).
 
Other than that there are a few more benefits including (potentially) better performance on old hardware, fewer concerns about malware, easy and (mostly) safe access to software packages through repositories (what windows and mac os offer isn't comparable), a better update system and more.
In my experience 90% of Kali "users" have no idea what they're doing and only downloaded Kali because they thought it would magically make them l33t haxxors. Kali is for pentesters, not hackers, and it's just a tool of convenience - it does nothing you couldn't do on any other distribution, the only advantage it offers is that you don't need to install it or anything else to start doing your job on the field.
While certainly any gnu/linux distribution will not track you anywhere near as much as windows would, when it comes to the internet it's mainly a matter of using your brain - beyond that any distribution can be configured for the highest anonimity possible, but they won't allow you to use the internet without any precautions and still be anonymous.
Refurbished thinkpads are where it's at, dirt cheap and in great conditions because they are mostly used in the enterprise and thrown out for no other reason than company wide upgrades. New ones still offer quite a few advantages over macbooks that some people may find invaluable, but the line is definitely less clear.
On one hand yes, there are elitists and they are a problem that hurts the community; on the other, if you go in with the mentality of "I won't touch the command line, just tell me where the button is" then you're asking for scorn. Linux users have a diy mentality and they are annoyed when they see someone who clearly isn't willing to make any effort to learn a new system. If you don't want to learn anything new and you just want to click a button to have the system automagically do something, linux isn't for you, and that's fine. The command line is an integral part of how a linux system is used and one of its main advantages is just how much you can get done with a few commands - refusing to use it is shooting yourself on the foot.

Good luck getting an iPhone working on Linux. 

Are you aware of the fact that Windows has a native Clang? 

so? it's fine for what i use it for.