I remember fighting with the browser source. Nowadays you can just install a full build of OBS from some (third party) repositories. At least that’s what I’ve done. Good reminder not to use Snap. As far as I know it’s just causing problems for lots of people.
Btw I don’t find the language that offensive. Sure it’s not meant for kids. But I think fairly acceptable for a rant.
Seems perfectly alright. I think for HDDs, consensus is you overwrite everything and you’re fine. If you want to make absolutely sure you can do multiple passes, like 2 or 3 with different (random) data should suffice. There are a lot of myths around though, concerning wiping data.
I generally use the common, established linux utilities: ‘wipe’ or ‘shred’ or just ‘dd’ on the whole device. The Arch Wiki has a long article on Securely wipe disk. I guess nwipe is fine, too.
Terms and conditions apply if you’re using flash memory or SSDs. Overwriting them is not 100% effective. But for plain harddisks it is.
Yeah, I’ve been using Debian, Arch and NixOS in the past. And at least those 3 didn’t need any Snaps or Flatpaks. It’s in deb-multimedia.org or the AUR and Nix has it per default (like it should be anyways, if you ask me.)