Buy the "Fiske Guide to Colleges". It lists hundreds of colleges in the US. You can look up by major, location, price, etc.
It also discusses things like social life, acceptance rate, and amenities.
I have 3 kids that are in or went to college. This was indispensable.
make the drive unmountable if it had a filesystem on it.
yeah, chicks hate that.
a commode toad!
dont start with nixos. it is not friendly. Ubuntu is probably the best/easiest starter distro. that or fedora. go with the most mainstream so you have the least friction. Later you will be trying all the distros for fun.
i dont know suse, but try "dmesg" or look at /var/log/messages (or maybe /var/log/syslog)... just poke around the log directory.
I dont know what you are saying...
Not Safe For Life. Usually it is something horrific that many people never want to see... Unlike boobies.
Ubuntu is a good starter distro. It is up to date and has the most documentation/examples on the web. It is the most likely to "just work". Install it and test it out.
Nova Launcher got bought by a data mining company a couple years ago. I left and went to Total Launcher. It is a little weird at first the way it works, but it is now my full time launcher.
I like it for the over lapping widgets that can be sized down to the pixel. It also has a bunch of built in widgets like icon widgets and allowing widgets to stick in place across home pages.