I'm currently on Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop. I've used Ubuntu before but went away from it once they went to the unity desktop, or whatever it was called (icons on the left side of the screen) and a tiny bit of Raspian in a VM (PiHole).
Data recovery is always interesting. Kind of getting side tracked, but I'm dumping flash chips from car computers lately. Poking at things and changing how the computers were intended to work. Spinning drive data recovery is something I've looked into a little. Like I can manually find some file types like JPG's have a header signature to look for and it's pretty easy to extract them, just inside the JPG file is another JPG file for the thumbnail with the same signature lol. I did manual data recovery on a camera flash card before with a hex editor that could open the drive raw, the file system was gone.
The last pic is interesting, it looks like you could reverse it and have pretty good areo yet too lol. I'm sure the front end tapers down faster than I'm thinking. Either case interesting concept.
I recently had an idea from this thread about how to modify the front end, but my ideas didn't account for the windshield lol. Basically the way people make custom fiberglass bumpers, same thing but remove the stock fenders and hood and use those attachment points. Depending on the design there's probably more up front like around the bumper area too. In theory could hinge the whole assembly as a single piece and bolt it down, or some sort of latch near the rear.... actually that reminds me of a IH scout 2 hood. Here's a pic, clearly hinges at the front, latch is center firewall. There's a lever to pull right in the middle of the dash to "pop" the hood. There's no secondary latch either if I remember right.
