Bluefruit @ Bluefruit @lemmy.world

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I do understand the appeal but as a power user i just like having control. Last i used a fire stick it was slow and annoying to use but things may have changed since then.

Me personally i find a pc for streaming and whatever else i wanna do just makes more sense but to each thier own.

Im not familiar with issues like that. Ive been using my pc to stream things an watch tv shows without issue. I am using windows atm though so that may be why. Not sure if this is an issue on Linux or if you're refering to a different OS.

You can find small form factor used office pcs for around that price rn.

https://www.amazon.com/HP-ProDesk-Desktop-i5-6500T-Professional/dp/B0868Z5ZHB/ref=mp_s_a_1_8_maf_1?crid=2KBF8MBVTTI4U&keywords=hp+small+pc&qid=1699561331&sprefix=hp+small+p%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-8

There is something to be said about being plug and play though. I understand the appeal.

Valid point, not everyone likes to use a mouse and keyboard for watching shows in the livingroom.

My tv is "smart" but ive never setup any internet for it effectively making it dumb.

May i recommend just buying a small form factor pc and hooking it up to your tv instead?

Smart tvs and things like this suck anyways. Super slow and bloated with crap i dont need or want.

Yea unless you're ready to fix (or more likely redo /replace) a lot of existing things while you live there, I'd walk unless they make a really compelling offer.

Renovations are really time consuming especially when you have a job, family, etc. And living in a renovation can be exhausting as you have to work around all the fixes until theyre done or at least usable. I speak from experience unfortunately.

That said, if the place is liveable and you can break things down into more manageable parts, could be worth it if again, they make a really compelling offer.

My kitty Sydney.

He sleepy.

Just started playing Timberborn, super fun!

I sure hope not dude lol. I would have asked for a refund.

Does this look like a fried monkey wrench to anyone else?

Honestly the best way to find if a distro will work for you is to just give it a go.

Theres this cool project called ventoy where you can load mutiple isos onto one usb drive to use and install diffrent distributions. Its really neat.https://ventoy.net/en/index.html

Using this, take your top 3 choices or so, load em up and take em for a spin. See what you like best.

Someone already mentioned Pop_OS which is a good option. I really like the look of KDE personally and think its nice and modern looking so a distribution like kubuntu like another comment mentioned is also good. Ubuntu is fairly user friendly having used it myself as a new linux user but i just dont like the look of gnome.

Im planning on using Fedora KDE as my main distro moving forward as it seems stable and up to date for the most part.

All that said, it really is just a matter of personal preference. Try out a bunch of stuff and see what you like. Thats what i did until i landed on fedora.

Me everytime i use a broswer without ublock. Ill open a link here in lemmy without opening it externally to firefox and dear god my eyes.

Ublock makes the internet a better place. Or at least it shoves the bad stuff under the bed lol.

Welcome.

We are glad you're here.

I did something similar but used grub to be able to choose the OS at startup.

Both Windows and Linux (I used Ubuntu at the time) had thier own separate drives and grub was on the Windows install. That was the main boot drive that would launch grub so that i could choose to boot into either Windows or Ubuntu at start up.

I dont remeber the guide i used and this was a couple years ago so there may be something more up to date at this point. I liked the way it worked though.

That being said, another way would be to use two different pcs and use a kvm to switch between them. Dual boot is cool but having to power off is annoying. Or you can virtualize windows from your linux install or vice versa. Really depends on what you need.

For me, Windows is likely going to serve as my music making OS so having it bare metal makes more sense for me. I'm going to be using a mini pc for windows and my main rig will be for Linux. At least thats the plan for now.

Thats really good to know. Thanks for taking the time to explain that.

Oh thats neat. I'm assuming that can be configured for other package managers when you're calling the apt equivalent?

Yup. Ive heard timeshift is good. Now i just gotta actually use it.

Hows the experience with timeshift been when youve used it? Pretty easy to restore from?

Haha i feel that man. I'm thinking of switching to Linux entirely and ditching Windows so i gotta get better at making backups otherwise its gonna be full reinstalls no stop.

What a mood. Im very guilty of not making backups and ruining setups only to have to start all over.

I'm a fairly new linux user so this is bound to happen again lol.

Yea thats a really bad implementation. We use 2FA at my work and its much less cumbersome than this.