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  • Orange pi zero 3 is arm-based and can be really viable for daily usage if you are into tinkering.

  • In a serious tone:

    Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.

  • I use both nano and vim, so eh

  • I'm typing this on my rpi 4 w/ 2GiB (with three tabs open on my brave browser w/ also a youtube video playing on the background) and its good enough as is for daily tasks.

  • Is it possible to use Linux without the command line? Yes. Should you do it? Definitely not.

  • A contrarian take, but nextdns. It may not block youtube ads, but eeeh it works really well for most cases.

  • Yes! This is more like it. Thank you.

    Now to figure out a package that acquires the latest news out of a rss link and prints it in the cli.

  • Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro?

    No. Gaming distro is a "regular" distro preconfigured for gaming.

  • Thank you for your explanation, but what I had in mind "in depth" was to "store" the latest news acquired from a rss link into a variable (say, $NEWS), and then display it all way down with -vf drawtext=text="''$NEWS':fontsize=etc:other:attributes" followed by a scroll effect (to the left)... which I'm pretty sure its possible, but I don't know which package is appropriate for the former.

  • ZorinOS > Ubuntu > Debian and then Arch. I even tried Alpine linux recently but got "filtered" by the lack of gpu packages. Looks like I need to get my "googling" improved a bit.

  • "I don't value my time. I value my braincells."

    -- Me, every time someone says the "...value your time" argument.

  • In a nutshell,

    Zorin > Ubuntu > Debian > Arch, while (always) pestering google about trivial stuff, "How do I install something on Linux?" -- "Oh look! A package manager! Which package manager is the best?" -- "Distros have their specific packages? Cool!", etc.

  • Just tell him, "Give Linux another shot when you are bored.".

    t. Used to be a Windows tryhard w/ baby duck syndrome, told myself exactly this. Took me a while, but I became a penguin a couple years after.

  • Eh, just you wait until Bill implements AI into it and/or a xz-like backdoor and then says its "for your own good".

  • Quite a controversial take, but I think dietpi is a very solid choice, even for x86 PCs.

  • Download Ubuntu 24.04

    Found the Windows poser.

  • Nah, the average "just werks" user won't leave Windows even if it took money out of its credit card.

  • The arch iso offers a install guide nowadays (archinstall), so nah not that much.