This is seriously awesome, thank you for posting this!

what does “snowed” mean in this context?

Exactly! if a service running under root creates a file, it belongs to root. if that file has permissions that don’t allow other users to write (most do), then you can’t delete it without sudo afaik

same );

I think I would still recommend this distro today because imho it’s very usable if you’ve never used linux before and it is in my experience very stable and compatible

(although i use arch now btw, i would probably never recommend it as a beginner distro)

*whispers* I stole that signature from cryptostorms warrant canary: https://cryptostorm.is/canary.txt

*daemon