it took a while to get it to work well, but I use yubikey here, and recommend it.
I do need to find and pulg it in sometimes, but overall might leave it plugged in.
and I have it configured to require a touch for every operation
The same abstract pattern exists with many (most?) annoying things in the computing field: people focus on solving problem #1 but it turns out there's a complementary problem #2 that is now worse, that they either didn't know about or didn't much care about.
I actually assumed that this is because the system tries to figure out where you will be by your planned route.
so seeing the bike coming up is much later - for example when the bike will be coming around a corner
(used it before, mostly to learn. went to debian for new laptop. gave up after fighting systemd.
I'm aware of devuan and artix, but gentoo just worked (after all the time spent))
Debian, at least until bookworm works perfectly without systemd. The easiest way to make this transition, is to installed Debian with nothing but 'standard system utilities' and 'SSH server' (if you want) during install:
It's important to remember that it has to be this aggressive in excluding systemd, too. There is quite a lot of strong coupling amongst the parts of systemd, so there are very few half-measure scenarios, where one can have only some systemd stuff, that will actually function correctly in toto.
Moreover, there are the odd one or two unrelated packages that just happen to have the string "systemd" in their names. (-:
MX Linux for the win. Debian based, but defaults to 'init'. Booting with systemd is an option. Just enough systemd-* running to make things easy and seamless.
$ ps agxf|grep 'systemd'
607 ? S 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
2201 ? S 0:00 /sbin/cgmanager --daemon -m name=systemd
2726 ? S 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
it took a bunch of tries to get it to do what I wanted, but https://neat-otter-bj288v.manyminiapps.com a crochet spiral counter helper https://calm-puma-bqqdmr.manyminiapps.com - a falling sand game
I'm quite impressed