Stop looking for cheap new stuff. Buy cheap used stuff. I got a high quality Thinkpad T530 for $99. I got a T15 Gen 1 as well but honestly is worse than the T530 even though it’s newer.

My friend got a used computer with a 4th Gen i5 and a 970 for $45. Old but gold. We upgraded the CPU and it runs everything great.

Stop contributing to e-waste and buy used

I was in 8th grade so 13-14 years old right?

Getting a flagship android is already a waste of money. They lose support in a few years and expect you to buy another

It doesn’t though. It’s just different and takes time to learn. Like if a PlayStation only user switched to Xbox or a Mac user switching to windows. It’s different. In my experience Mac isn’t “user friendly” because it does shit different. I took some time to learn it. Now it is

Noo…

Ye kinda. But I’m so happy that it’s gone. A lot people go wild when they see a number they can increase.

Oh no a paid, proprietary, piece of shit software does something shitty. Who could’ve ever saw this coming?!

I’ve said it for years anytime anyone mentioned running a Plex server. As soon as you install that on your server or your homelab it’s no longer your server. Proprietary software is malware

Not at all anymore. Just please use your distros repositories.

I told my friend to just use the package manager but he was dead set on downloading the drivers from Nvidia’s website and installing them manually. Then complained how hard it was.

My dirt bike

Switch to Linux

Yeah let me know when I can install mainline Linux.

Definitely a step in the right direction, but the fact that android uses the Linux kernel but still manufacturers keep so much proprietary… It kills me

Enough musk spam…

I use gnome software all the time and since the new update it’s so much faster

Fedora just werks™

Who could’ve ever predicted this?!?

Who the fuck makes an account for 4chan?

I shouldn’t have to learn where setting is in the windows UI every few years but that’s just the shit we live in. I find Linux easier because I just have to change one word. In windows I got to go through three different setting panels. Same but different

I see your edits and I had the same experience with Ubuntu. For whatever reason on my ThinkPad I had bugs and just weird issues that no one else would run into every single time. And I would try Ubuntu after every major update and it would still be some weird bugs never the same ones.

I’ve now been using Fedora for almost 4 years it’s solid. I always recommend enabling RPM fusion to get those proprietary codecs and I like to change my zram config to what is recommended on the arch wiki.

I usually use podman

Haven’t heard of it til now