GustavoM

GustavoM, 2 days ago

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

GustavoM, 4 days ago

In a serious tone:

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

GustavoM, 6 days ago

I use both nano and vim, so eh

GustavoM, 6 days ago

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

GustavoM, 6 days ago

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.

GustavoM, 6 days ago

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

GustavoM, 7 days ago

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

No. Gaming distro is a “regular” distro preconfigured for gaming.

GustavoM, 7 days ago

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.

GustavoM, 7 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

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.

GustavoM, 8 days ago

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.

GustavoM, 9 days ago

“I don’t value my time. I value my braincells.”

– Me, every time someone says the “…value your time” argument.

GustavoM, 10 days ago

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.

GustavoM, 13 days ago

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.

GustavoM, 14 days ago

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

GustavoM, 16 days ago

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

GustavoM, 19 days ago

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

GustavoM, 19 days ago

Nah, the average “just werks” user won’t leave Windows even if it took money out of its credit card.

GustavoM, 18 days ago

Download Ubuntu 24.04

Found the Windows poser.

GustavoM, 19 days ago

I too can’t wait when biologically-modified dogs, cats and alike beat videogames using their own undeveloped-yet-modified brain for the first time.

GustavoM, 20 days ago

Three words:

Trial-and-error.

GustavoM, 23 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

That is like asking, “Is breathing worth it?” – well of course. Then again, folks don’t (usually) care due to how most privacy-ruining methods/features are … mostly (in)offensive and easy to tackle.

GustavoM, 23 days ago

…well… that is how I started learning (and getting used to) GNU/Linux, so eh.

GustavoM, 23 days ago

Not really – it has way too many “bells and whistles” to be called as “stupidly minimal”. Then again, what I had in mind was something more straightforward with nothing else than “Current power draw: (number goes here)W. Updates every 3 seconds.”