BigSkreen

Often, when it grows past that, it can become… unsavory.

Exactly! Like the Internet, Linux is for anybody! . . .but not necessarily everybody.

Because I mainly game in VR and that’s still so far behind on LInux :(

This is a major sticking point for me too. I’ve got a dusty Win10 partition I haven’t booted in ages, and I was keeping it around mainly for VR, but then Microsoft had to go and just extinguish that too.

Monado is making impressive progress but it’s a huge pain because they have to reverse engineer stuff with zero help from the manufacturers, instead of simply interfacing with the hardware.

I refuse to let Meta have any of my money though. I hope a good affordable VR kit comes out that isn’t another hyper-proprietary blackbox.

Ah, you’re right!

Although now I think we’re seeing something interesting (hopefully?) where Windows has gotten so irritating that more “average users” are wanting to take the leap to install Linux.

They’d probably follow video tutorials or quick guides online while understanding just enough to be dangerous, but once they’re set up, probably aren’t as keen on going around tweaking and editing and getting their hands dirty. Probably just like “Can I set my wallpaper and do my Steam games work?” Lol

I just hope they’re still willing to understand even if they don’t care about tweaking it to perfection. Nothing bugs me more than the “everything should just work without me thinking, like Windows/Mac!” crowd. X_X

The best news is that most distros would be good for those kinds of tasks! :D

I can’t personally speak to Zorin, although it looks fine! People say it comes with lots of stuff out of the box. Worth trying out!

Mint is really user friendly with an excellent forum and tons of support. The Cinnamon desktop environment is very Windows-esque in a usability way, and it tends to be slow to adopt new features that could break things, so by the time you update, most things should be fixed.

It doesn’t require terminal usage at all, but I started to enjoy using it because it makes “computing” feel really fun. :)

For a home media server that’d be running all the time that can be a little bit of a hobby…(But a rewarding one!)

Sorry for the long reply!

I’m so confused at what I just read in context and why I’m still laughing. XD

Is there a /c/lostlemmings yet? Lol

KDE connect is such an under appreciated killer app it’s not even funny.

When I go to house sit for a friend I just hook my laptop to their HDMI, pull out KDE Connect, and bam I’m kicking back 10 feet away watching my streaming stuff on my system with adblock running and everything, and the media controls just work.

I’m strongly considering using a Pi 3b+ as a TV machine where KDE Connect is the primary interface. It just works so well.

I also love getting text alerts or low battery notifications on my desktop without having to keep looking at my phone. It’s just amazing.

Always a good move. Doesn’t matter the software, there will always be some time when a “routine update” turns into a forum hunt and troubleshoot mission.

That being said, snapshots are amazing. The BTRFS file system supports them, and TimeShift also integrates with it.

If you don’t want to bother with another file system though (it requires basically a reinstall if you didn’t choose it at first), at least get TimeShift and another large drive or partition to save restore points to! It’ll basically just copy backups of all the files instead of lighter snapshots, but being able to roll back after a funky update is lovely.

But either way, don’t sweat all that too much, just make sure your essential data is on

3 copies. 2 different media. 1 offsite.

blasphemy in this church.

Indeed tis spoken oft as heresy in the Cathedral…

…But perhaps opinions are more diverse in the Bazarr?

Username checks out? LOL

Looks fun enough to spin up in a VM at least. :)

I would dare say the “average person”, as in, Windows refugee, probably doesn’t want to tinker, they do want things to just kinda work as expected and just want freedom and options.

I don’t see why Zorin couldn’t be a valid jumping off point for new users to get their feet wet. As much as I love more tinkery distros, I will usually onboard somebody with something like Mint because it’s just familiar enough but still lets you explore the how and why, without requiring it.

Alongside that, this ““backdoor”” (diagnostic/troubleshooting tool) requires physical access

Can’t have an “evil maid” if I do my own cleaning around here.

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the likes of system76 have already made their allegiances clear.

Aw crap. What did they do? :(

Been somewhat out of the loop lately.

Really sad about the Pinephone, because you know what Pine did SO WELL? The PineTime. That device is still incredible and has lasted me a long time.

It shows time, and it shows messages, even a decent heartrate monitor! Built like a tank, too. I wish more of their products could be this awesome.

Facts. At first there was such an enthusiastic Android crowd who was having so much fun with it. (Not to mention contributing TONS of free labor and promotion.)

And now Google is just saying “NO! NOT YOURS! WE’RE GREEN APPLE NOW!”

I hope those actual genius nerds who love user-centric tech accelerate an alternative just out of sheer spite at this point.

Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container.

Well not 100% sure about Docker but Tiddlywiki is pretty easily hosted! It’s got some quirks, but in the end it’s just an HTML file (or slightly more complex if hosted as a website), so it should stay relevant for a long time. I enioy making notebooks with it for various things!

Nextcloud has a pretty decent passwords manager and I think firefox plugins for it. I personally use SyncThing to sync KeePass databases and use the nextcloud passwords app for low-risk things we share, like streaming service passwords. :)