Ooh that Authelia looks pretty much ideal. I’ll give it a try and see how well it works.

has it happened again? lol

It started when they started including Amazon sponsored results in the menu search really. These days using apt occasionally will install a snap package instead of a deb. It doesn’t give people a good jumping on point and it teaches that linux is more difficult than it has to be.

Nobara has them preconfigured. Fedora just makes it tricky because of licencing issues and if you aren’t bothered, you may as well use Nobara.