Just like me. I’m a fat bald guy with a huge beard which I always thought I was the Linux stereotype. But yea, I enjoy seeing cute socks with Neofetches in my feed.
Just like me. I’m a fat bald guy with a huge beard which I always thought I was the Linux stereotype. But yea, I enjoy seeing cute socks with Neofetches in my feed.
Based on what data?
We had an ad that actually said “piracy funds terrorism” here in the UK. Made me laugh my arse off.
Certainly gets me going.
First experience was trying to dual boot Slackware and Windows ME on the family computer in 2003 after getting a magazine with the install disc on. Nuked the Windows install and got banned from the family PC for a while.
Then I got my own laptop with Windows 98 on it at 18. I’d just found dyne:bolic which was one of the first Linux live CDs if I recall correctly and was designed to work on older hardware (this was mid 00s). That machine served me well for 2 or 3 years.
A few years of bouncing between various distros and Windows followed. Eventually I made the full switch in about 2012 first to Ubuntu then Debian which I’ve been using for the last 5 years or so.
I don’t want to sound arrogant but is reading a few paragraphs then copying and pasting 3 different commands into a terminal really that difficult?
It will make life easier in the long run as having a repo added will update the software with sudo apt upgrade in the future.
I’ve always kept a 32 bit Debian ISO on my Ventoy drive just in case.
Would be a shame if they stopped supporting it but I’d put dyne:bolic on my drive which was the first distro I ever used.
Yea and coming with Visual Studio pre installed? No thanks
I spent years building a 20tb media archive. I got paranoid I might get caught so I turned my back up drives into encrypted Veracrypt volumes. Before I had a chance to transfer my stuff to them my piece of crap QNAP NAS died and I couldn’t decrypt their proprietary RAID encryption.
Go open source kids!
Ah well. I’ve since become #debian4life
I could never get Pop OS working. The first apt upgrade would delete everything and I’d be unable to boot.
And I love your grandmother :D
Agreed. Also it’s likely you’ll be able to use your TV’s remote with it via CEC or if not you can still use the remote app on your phone.
Lol. Better headline: “Youtube tries any random crap it can think to stop people using Newpipe”
I’d recommend a Raspberry pi running Libreelec. Its Kodi so has a great UI with no ads or tracking, supports HDMI-CEC so you can control it with your TV’s own remote (on most models) and I haven’t found a video codec it can’t handle. Also if you decide to move to a NAS or streaming for your videos in the future it supports that as well.
Any model of pi should be able to handle video playback from USB but older ones obviously can’t handle 4k. Also a pi can’t power a mechanical USB drive so if that’s what you’re using you’d either need them to have their own power supply or use a powered USB hub.
One like this could be used to power the pi and drives at the same time: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-PowerIQ-Charging-Macbook-Surface-7-Ports-3/dp/B00VE4UJD4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2SJ87KGXVYOFK&keywords=anker+usb+hub+powered+3.0&qid=1696764826&sprefix=anker+usb+hub+powered+3.0%2Caps%2C884&sr=8-1
Yea, I use mine every day. You’re right, the feature set is quite limited, but it’s more than enough for what I use it for.
My non-tech literate aunt has been running her Ebay business from a laptop running Fedora with unattended upgrades for 3 years now. She manages her expenses in Libreoffice calc and accesses everything else through Chrome and prints labels on an old USB HP printer. I don’t think she’s even noticed I switched her over from Windows 10 when her machine was getting slow.
My Dad’s laptop is also on Fedora (though he mainly just uses an Android tablet these days) and I intend to install it on my Grandma’s PC when Windows 10 stops being supported. So for the people who’d be happy with something like a Chromebook, which is a good chunk of older folks, it’s perfect and I can easily provide support.
That being said if I had to deal with helping kids who wanted to game and use Bluetooth bits and pieces surrounded by RGB crap then yea outside of a few well supported options it could be a nightmare depending on what they’ve got.