Linux needs to grow. Stop telling people it’s ‘tech-y’ or acting like you’re more advanced for using it, you are scaring away people. Linux Mint can be used by a senile person perfectly....
Sure, but just like with flashing custom ROMs on phones, people may break their Chromebook and not get help with it and be stuck. For a Linux beginner a good first and smooth experience may be the best start.
If you want to go low budget and play around there’s lots of SBCs that can run Linux. Check here for example : www.armbian.com There’s also ones that come as light weight keyboard, for example the pi400 Easy to carry around and put into a HDMI monitor. A drawback is that when using ARM there is sometimes software which only runs on amd64 family though that does not happen very often. Other option is to look at refurbished laptops. If you skip the chromebook ones (Which can be cumbersome to run plain Linux on unless you want to play with Linux and Android on top of ChromeOS) you can find them for 90 Euros or more.
I’m feeling more tired about Windows, and the reason I haven’t switched yet to Linux is because I need some programs that only exist on Windows. But, at this point, I’m focusing on ditching these programs and finding alternatives for them…...
Trying Linux in VirtualBox for 3D gaming or video editing will give you poor performance. You may get better performance running Linux from a Linux live usb/cd image.
For video editors Shotcut is gaining popularity and features. It is also available for Windows so you can try it without a Linux installation : shotcut.org/download
Not sure if for video editing you should go for a specific Linux flavor, like ubuntustudio.org but “distro-hopping” is not a bad thing in my opinion. Try a few Linux distributions and see what you like and dislike, and then decide on your favorite. A tool like Ventoy can make it very easy to have ten or more Linux flavors on your usb pen drive to play with.
I was looking for a non-chromium alternative browser to Firefox and found mercury. According to this site it is one of the fastest Firefox forks and also has optimizations from other well known forks like librewolf.
I ran some random test (its passmark memtest86 v9.3 pro) on my medicat usb. Right now its 92% finished with 1070 errors. This just can’t be good :(
Not familiar with medicat. Are you saying memtest86 gave you 1070 errors ? Then one of RAM modules is faulty. Or is this about the hard disk and bad blocks ?
gentoo doesnt have systemd (I want to use Mullvad as my vpn and their app reqires it).
If I recall correctly it is technically possible to run Mullvad and OpenVPN manually without systemd for example on a SBC (pi4 etc.) as your LAN router, and feed it to your devices, but yeah this is a bit cumbersome.
Sorry, that package has been removed from Debian repositories
Wait, it is Debian GNU/Linux isn’t it ?
Technically yes, but …
So, how can I install vrms ?
Try the AUR with Arch Linux
But which AUR helper to install ? auracle-git, pbget, repoctl, yaah, aurutils, bauerbill, PKGBUILDer, rua, aura, aurman, pacaur, pakku, paru, pikaur, trizen, or yay ?
So, I’ve been having some bugs when I turn on my PC since I installed my GPU, and I figured a possible reason might be that it uses bios instead of uefi, although my motherboard supports uefi....
I have several android devices, with problems that have been developing overtime. I am unsure what, exactly, the problems are, and am hesitant to declare it a hardware issue unless i can prove it. Some examples in particular are:...
Phone 2: Wi-Fi signal weak or barely functioning, youtube videos buffer and load for much too long on 720p when they shouldn’t need to.
Are you blocking ads ?
Does that phone have apps which may be eating your resources ? f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/ With NetGuard you can block access for mobile and / or WiFi per app, or block all including system apps and then allow the ones you need.
Stop being elitist, spread Linux!
Linux needs to grow. Stop telling people it’s ‘tech-y’ or acting like you’re more advanced for using it, you are scaring away people. Linux Mint can be used by a senile person perfectly....
I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)
I’ve been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better....
Considering Starting Linux
I have been using Windows my entire life, but since I got my Steam Deck I’ve been considering trying to get into Linux....
Give some love (lemmy.world)
new permissions for simple voice recorder app. they're coming! (lemmy.world)
As per title. Move to a new app peeps, I found this 1 seems fine. github.com/you-apps/RecordYou?tab=readme-ov-file
In your opinion, which distro should I try to edit videos stably?
I’m feeling more tired about Windows, and the reason I haven’t switched yet to Linux is because I need some programs that only exist on Windows. But, at this point, I’m focusing on ditching these programs and finding alternatives for them…...
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (www.wired.com)
Got it from here : infosec.exchange/...
Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon (vijayprema.com)
Mercury - a Firefox fork with compiler optimizations (github.com)
I was looking for a non-chromium alternative browser to Firefox and found mercury. According to this site it is one of the fastest Firefox forks and also has optimizations from other well known forks like librewolf.
I'm happy and I'd like to share my new GNU's mug with you guys. Long life to Lemmyverse (discuss.tchncs.de)
Best privacy friendly, reliable and affordable domain name extension ?
Question after reading this new article : dutchnews.nl/…/criticism-as-dutch-domain-registry…...
PC constantly crashes, won't even boot.
I have Arch Linux on Ryzen 7 3700X, 32gb of ram, and some Gigabyte motherboard with updated bios....
We don’t *need* more cars, more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more road damage, and more CO2 emissions. (climatejustice.social)
who can continue?
Stop being elitist....
How to mount a fat32 partition from the arch bootable usb ?
So, I’ve been having some bugs when I turn on my PC since I installed my GPU, and I figured a possible reason might be that it uses bios instead of uefi, although my motherboard supports uefi....
Android diagnostic utility?
I have several android devices, with problems that have been developing overtime. I am unsure what, exactly, the problems are, and am hesitant to declare it a hardware issue unless i can prove it. Some examples in particular are:...
Just received more legal papers for the crime of a 30 minute protest march. I'm now up to 153 pages for this one protest. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/8440942...
I'm happy and I'd like to share my new GNU's mug with you guys. Long life to Lemmyverse (discuss.tchncs.de)
How would you build an operating system? (SerenityOS with Andreas Kling) (corecursive.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.smeargle.fans/post/118537...