There’s a lot of necessity there. Our natural speaking voices use the throat and lungs in a different way than any singing techniques. And, there’s multiple ways of using them to get a desired sound.
So there’s some degree of style involved, but past a certain point you have to change your voice to sing rather than just speak in tune (which is still a valid thing of its own)
Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
that’s sync
I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all
boost
eternity
connect
and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.
Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual
thunder
annnd summit
As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.
Being real, Linux without terminal is kinda impossible. That being said, assuming you test compatibility via a live disc/drive before installing, you shouldn’t need to use CLI often at all, and may never need to if you don’t want.
However, when trouble does happen, you need that kind of access. You do on Windows as well, so it isn’t like you’re escaping it if you jump ship.
Not having a terminal program would be mind-numbingly bad. Any situation that you would need to use it, installing it would be harder, and maybe impossible. So, just don’t open the damn thing if you don’t want to use it regularly. There’s a ton of gui options for almost everything these days. But you can’t escape command line entirely on any os.
Repos are essentially what makes the various distros what they are, to an extent. They’re curated software, and the address for whatever is maintained by the distro is already in there, and that’s how it knows. Someone put it in.
If you’re not comfy with CLI, you probably shouldn’t fuck around adding repos tbh. Again, that being said, you’d find where to do so under the software/updates menu in mint. You find the box, type the info in, give your password, and Bob’s your uncle. Thing is, that’s not a decrease in steps compared to using command line, it’s just different steps. The exact label to get there via gui may vary between distros, but it’s in the “start” menu somewhere.
Updates are just a matter of the software connecting to the repo, checking to see what’s new, then giving you the option to use them.
Legit, I totally understand the issue with using command line interfaces. My dyslexic ass hates trying to sort through the text. But it is a great tool. If anything every goes really wrong, you’ll be glad it’s sitting there ready.
One problem
Batteries.
I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.
For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?
No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)
Oh boy! Dogging in the park at night! Can’t wait to get into some of that!
It’s kinda crazy that it took the combined culinary efforts of at least 4 nations to create something genius that would piss off all of those nations.
Also, pineapple on pizza is fucking delicious, and I will fight over that personal opinion being as valid as it sucking :)
So it goes