Even a potato can run linux if you try hard(er) enough.

I’m typing this from my orange pi zero 3 w/ dietpi installed… aaaaaaand I don’t really “hate”, but more like “not care about it anymore”. Sure, its privacy concerns are truly a nightmare, but eh. It’s good to have options, that’s all. Even if one said “options” can be more harmful than good.

It may feel tasty and great today… but it (definitely) won’t feel great as much in the future. Have some respect on yourself and drink something healthy instead – there are better ways to have fun than that.

That aside, Debian can be very user friendly just like any other distro – I say go for it.

Nah, that’s a preconfigured distro.

For me, arm has already “won” this debacle – convenience > performance all day errday.

tl;dr:

dnf list installed > $anydir/meow

On new computer, with fedora installed and the meow file;

dnf install $(cat $anydir/meow)

Convenience > performance all day errday so the rpi 5 takes the cake.

No love for the aarch64 eh?

Aw, dangit.

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.

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

Download Ubuntu 24.04

Found the Windows poser.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.”

brb installing firefox

A “stupidly minimal” cli package that monitors power usage in real time. Bonus points if it is written in C++, with zero dependencies.

All distros are free – just choose whatever you find interesting, give it a spin, see what happens.