• humanamerican@lemmy.zip
    62·
    1 day ago

    Arch is Amazing. Bazzite is Beautiful. CentOS is Civilized. Debian is Dope. Endeavour is Enchanting. Fedora is Fantastic.

    I use Fedora so I’m stopping at F.

  • manigordo@lemy.lol
    5·
    20 hours ago

    I’ve been in Debian for the last year and a half, must admit that I really love it, my old yoga pad from 2013 runs smoothly, and air bought it from second hand. I do even play things like Morrowind.

    It did never run w10 as smooth as it does with Debian.

  • OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world
    50·
    1 day ago

    I miss how i used to think Capitalism was healthy and competition from rival businesses fostered innovation - until they all teamed up against us :(

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    27·
    1 day ago

    Now is the right time to start a small business migrating Windows 10 EOL machines to Linux for people who can’t afford new machines and offering service plans to help them if they’re stuck.

    That’s basically how Red Hat does it for corporations, they don’t sell Linux, but they sell service and support for it.

    Will it be exceptionally profitable? Not at all.

    Will it be a pro-social and helpful thing to do for your community while making maybe enough money to scrape by? Yes.

    This is how you build community.

    EDIT: If you’re independently wealthy or have the support structures, you can also just do it all for free which is even more pro-social, but most of us need at least a meager income in exchange for our time and labor to stay alive, sadly.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    141·
    1 day ago

    Currently happy with Linux on the old-ass Chromebook I bought for a whopping fifty cents. Works great. Does everything I need it to. Am laughing at Microsoft depreciating old hardware and laughing at new hardware prices.

    Might eventually upgrade to a laptop that has a touch screen… But only if it’s under $5.

      • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I have a Chuwi Hi8, a cursed attempt at a x86 android tablet poorly pretending to also be a tabletPC. Debian runs fine on it. The only thing still not supported is automatic screen rotation. (it still took ten years to get the wifi to run with it though). So if it’s not supported now, someone will try to fix that.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Well, my fifty cent chromebook doesn’t have a touch screen, so I wouldn’t know.

        But I’m using Graphite OS on it, a lightweight Linux variant with a specially tailored kernel to work on old Chromebook hardware, including drivers for all the weird stuff. Everything it has works, even the little special feature buttons and stuff. No longer an actively maintained project, unfortunately, but it works well enough for now. I’d love to see someone revive it with support for more modern Linux kernels. (Unfortunately, I can’t update the kernel without losing some of the special modifications that make it work more efficiently on a chromebook and include chromebook-specific hardware drivers.)

        I guess the other main limitation is that the thing’s only internal storage is a whopping 16GB. But Graphite and all the apps I need still fit with ~8GB to spare. And it has an SD card slot, so I can easily add external storage.