Thanks for the solid explanation.
As a noob that doesn’t change my distro too often, I never would have thought of something like this.
Thanks for the solid explanation.
As a noob that doesn’t change my distro too often, I never would have thought of something like this.
They had a KDE version for a while. Ended up dropping it since all of their in-house tools and stuff were GTK.
Now they only have 3 GTK DE options.
Just curious, why a script instead of just a bash alias or something like it?
Mint used to be based on the newest versions of Ubuntu.
They only use the LTS as a base now to make development easier. That’s why everything is older.
This probably doesn’t add anything to the conversation, but your comment reminded me of this change a few years ago.
This was my first thought as well.
Be happy you can boot from a USB. Do NOT fuck with the machine unless you want to look for another job.
I’m pratty sure old.reddit.com lets you bypass this.
Personally, as a noob myself, I enjoy reading about others’ experiece when they switch. No idea why. Just fun to read usually.
As an aside, I’m using Mull on Android with uBlock Origin on medium mode and I got no ads or pop-ups of any kind while reading the article.
Firefox’s reader mode can also be very useful for this in some cases.
Hopefully, this is something that can help you or someone else since I get to skip most of the ads and annoyances that I see people complain about on articles like this.
Why do you say that? Everyone always talks about how old-school it is and how it doesn’t really change.
Gonna agree with the others here.
Stick to Debian. Especially for the stated use. A slow-moving distro with very few surprises is perfect.
Sure, that wouldn’t be a bad thing to try. Probably a lot of interesting ways to go about it. Good luck getting a company to try something cool, though.
I’d love to get a physical keyboard again. I’d happily give up some screen size for it too. Phones have gotten much too big.
A smaller screen would limit the phone, though. Would probably become a phone calls and texting only device since most apps wouldn’t know what to do with the small screen and weird aspect ratio.
They’ve been easier to find from what I’ve read recently.
Try rpilocator.
Then I’ll conseder it when I’m feeling productive. I am using an old netbook. Thanks for the answers.
Would it be worth switching if I’m already set up on Debian?
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
What advantages would this give over plain Debian or similar? I’m a total noob, so I’d love something that might help me get a little more out of my little netbook ‘server’.
I’ve got Pi-hole and Syncthing running on an old netbook with an Atom CPU and 2 GB RAM. It’s doing fine. Syncthing killed the little dual-core CPU while it was syncing all of the stuff I wanted, but now it idles along quietly on Debian. I doubt you’re going to get much out of the machine, but it’s perfectly fine for small, simple stuff like Pi-hole.
Distro-wise, I’d say Debian or similar if you want to set-and-forget (update once a week or month) or Arch/openSUSE Tumbleweed if you want it up-to-date (potentially more work needed).
Considering the hardware I’d also recommend whichever distro you go with without a GUI to keep the resource usage as low as possible.
I know Windows has the option to shake a window and all other windows get minimised. Nothing like shaking the mouse to find the cursor, though.
Pi-hole was really simple to set up. It was absolutely worth it and I’ve got it running on an old netbook. Very easy on resources.
Syncthing is also nice if you have files that you want easily shared between devices. I use it for sharing work files that I want synced between multiple devices. When I edit something it gets shared to all of my devices and it’s always up to date everywhere.