This just means that this project is still too early in development for you. The breaking changes happening in this phase are going to pay off in the long run and prevent the project from getting bogged down.

I would give it another shot when they release v2

Did you ever find the missing packets?

I find Mint to be the most obvious choice for beginners who don’t use Lemmy.

God forbid they had Christmas holidays 🙄

You can always set watchtower to blindly pull for you. If it’s going to be broken anyways, might as well automate the process.

#! brings back some good memories :)

curl?

I would go for refurb, business line SFF machines. Something like ThinkCentre or Optiplex. Specific form factor based on drive needs but the smaller you go the more power efficient. I have one on the bigger side (internal psu) that runs about 12W idle.

Just double check that it can handle hardware transcoding. Should fit right in your budget!

Would never touch it personally, but I found your history of Windows piracy in China very interesting!

In the US the license was always bundled with the hardware unless you build your own. I worked for my university’s computer labs IT department and was able to acquire a key that I used for about a decade. Later, also scavenged a key from an old broken laptop, back when they printed it on the bottom, for my current Windows partition. Best to avoid paying for it…

I’ve been using mostly Windows for a desktop and Linux for servers for many years, but 11 is where I have to call it quits. My old friend Debian leads me forward from here :)

Unpopular choice here but Ubuntu LTS with ubuntu-debullshit (vanilla gnome, replace snap with flatpak).

My main factors:

• stability of the LTS
• drivers and HW support
• tons of resources online
• already use Ubuntu for servers and Raspian on my Pi

I’ve had my fun distro hopping in the past but I just want a low maintenance system nowadays.

If the open source release is adequate then you can just continue using it… Or fork for your needs.

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I do want to load things automatically but need to figure out how to avoid hogging to much resources for contouring on the users device.

This is the first time sharing this, so a bit of an early release 😅

Crunchbang (#!) linux breathed live into some very wimpy hardware I’ve had in the past.

Loved the minimalism.

I remember getting a Ubuntu CD box set many years ago when I ordered free disks in the mail as a teenager. The box was well constructed, prints of high quality and the CD labels were especially sharp.

Crazy how physical media was king back then.

It’s very minimalist and the project ditched the Windows-style approach some years ago. Personally, I’ve grown to love it and other DEs feel bloated now.

To each their own 🤷‍♂️

Same! Debian with gnome on my desktop and work laptop. Raspbian on my Pi4. Headless Debian in the cloud…

So, I finally decided to ditch Ubuntu for desktop and servers last month and went distro shopping.

In the end, I settled on Debian. My rational was I had already been using Debian under the hood for nearly 20 years and it has treated me well. I’ve really come to appreciate that there is always an abundance of help and documentation compared to some other distros.

In addition to apt, I use flatpaks now.

Installing NVIDIA drivers manually kinda sucks but vanilla Gnome shell is so much nicer than Ubuntu’s Gnome.

Gnome Files with Thunar.

It’s the perfect file manager for a user like me.

It’s admittedly less obvious on mobile.

As a 4 day tech worker, 1 day community gardener, I can vouch for the therapeutic nature!