I've used Bazzite on some older hardware and was surprised by how much came pre-installed and just worked. That said, my gaming machines are all Fedora for no good reason, other than I like it, I hate snaps, and it's what I'm used to. I have Mint on my convertible, and it is really quite good for getting used to Linux after windows, and it'll do it all too. Ubuntu has the advantage of being the best documented of all the distros, but a few decisions they've made of late have annoyed me, so if I want Ubuntu, I get Debian instead.
phanto
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If you plan on dual booting, remember to disable fast startup on the windows side, or you won't be able to access the windows partition(s) as read/write in Linux. I have to dual boot for school, (God damn you, Lockdown Browser!) But as soon as I'm done, I'm dropping MS like the hot steaming pile it is.
Also, if you use a really easy to remember password... I like P@ssw0rd! Easy to remember, and nobody will ever guess it because, get this... The 'o' is actually a zero!
Can't cancel within 24 hours. Can rebook. Rebook for next week. Wait a day, cancel.
When it wouldn't charge, I assumed I had a defective unit, so I emailed them and got no response. Posted on the kickstarter page, nothing. Straight onto the "I'm never using this but can't bring myself to chuck it" shelf.
Be careful with disk destroyer!
So, I thought I bought this... It's a kickstarter called the OKpad. Word of warning: it is not OK.Run screaming! The e-ink bit? No backlight, no rotation, no keyboard. The LCD bit? Meh. Takes a day and a half to charge, runs out in three or four hours. Runs out while plugged in! Four releases back on Android. So, yeah, OKpad sucks.
I volunteer at the library, and a surprising amount of people. They try to apply for jobs using the Android version of Office, don't know what a file is, and then put "Computer skills" on their resume.
I pretty much agree with all of this... I have a Mint XFCE installed on a thumb drive. (Not an installER , installED.) I can boot it on basically any computer that still supports Legacy, and I've done so on a Dell Venue Pro tablet (Atom CPU, 2Gb Ram). Had a bastard of a time getting it to boot, but it ran better than the on board Windows 8.1. This was post-Covid. Of all the systems I've run it on, one didn't have WiFi, and one had a bunch of messing around to get the audio to switch between speakers and headphones reliably. But keep in mind, this is the exact same copy of the OS, across a half dozen systems. I've also upgraded it over five years or so...
Hard Bites chips! So yummy! Man, now I'm hungry again...
Block the trolls, I just did!
I agree, and I take it this far: "I worked hard and paid for my house, why should some lazy loafer get housing for free? I paid 24,000$ in tuition, why should kids get free college?" I think that, at some point, one guy has to be the first guy to benefit from progress, and all the people who didn't benefit just have to suck it up. I would 100% pay a much higher tax rate if it meant that homelessness was gone, hunger was gone, kids got free education... I'm Canadian, so I don't need to say this about health care. Yeah, I paid an awful lot of mortgage, but if someone else gets a free house? Good!