Why would these be good options in Canada?

Only the first Cube is worth watching, but it’s very good!

This isn’t the Raspberry Pi Imager - it’s a tool to build custom images. From the GitHub: A tool to generate highly customised software images for Raspberry Pi devices.

Have you tried the Raspberry Pi Image Generator?

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-rpi-image-gen-build-highly-customised-raspberry-pi-software-images/

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-image-gen

Someone who doesn’t use the distro is saying a tool ‘is a must’ when I do use the distro and have never needed it. You do you, but the point of my original comment was that it’s a valid distro for Europeans wanting a non-US option. Doesn’t mean you need to like it or use, but others might.

So you find Gnome & KDE ugly? I’ve never needed to use Yast for any system configuration. Having BTFRS with snapshots as default makes it a great distro.

SUSE/OpenSUSE seems like a much more European option

Shorthand is hard to learn from and hard to troubleshoot in complicated scripts.

From the Windows side (assuming you’re using Windows to connect, considering it’s RDP and not VNC), you can open PowerShell and test to see if the Raspberry Pi is even listening for RDP connections with:

Test-NetConnection x.x.x.x -port 3389

Replace x.x.x.x with the IP address of the Raspberry Pi. If it shows successful, then the Raspberry Pi is listening for RDP connections.

Do you know what RDP package you installed, and what operating system you’re running (Bookworm, Bullseye, etc)? I don’t have a raspberry pi with a desktop to test on, but if you’re using xrdp you could try:

sudo systemctl status xrdp

Does this give any input? If not, then you’ll need to know what package you installed to get RDP, assuming one is still installed even. If it does give you a message it might be a hint as to why it’s not working.

If you get output from the above command you can also try:

sudo journalctl -b | grep -C 2 xrdp

There are much better ways of searching journalctl but I’m a noob too. The -b returns only errors from the last boot time, the -C returns that many lines before and after a match is found.

So that means the router isn’t forwarding the ports to your devices. As others have said, it could be the ISP blocking it or it could be a configuration issue in the port fowarding.

Do you have any service listening on port 80? If not, I’d close it in the firewall and disable the forwarding in the router. Also sounds like a bad idea to set your router security to ‘low’, whatever that means for your router.

You can use a tool like this to check if your ports are accessible from the internet: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

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For me it’s that Tumblweed at least uses BTRFS by default, so rolling back to a previous snapshot is a breeze if needed.

I tipped him well

I can’t tell if that’s supposed to be sarcasm, but if not you were encouraging his bad behaviour.

I’m happy for them to be posted here and see them, just wanted to mention my experience with the requirements since I don’t have a fanatical account.

It’s not just ‘sign up for a newsletter’ - I just tried, and it’s also ‘register an account and link your steam account’. Maybe this is just how it works for Canadians though, but either way it’s a big enough turn off for me to not bother.

Sounds like you need to familiarise yourself with PowerShell and Group Policy.

Vbox will create a bridge with my wifi card (I’m a laptop user with no option for a wired nic in the host).

I’ve never been able to get kvm to do that and haven’t found any working instructions online that a simpleton like me can follow

You can always try the ‘Contact’ form on the site, it’s not likely anyone here is going to be able to give you good advice

So what is your suggestion for a viable alternative that auditors will also accept?