Desktop has both Mint and Bazzite. I use both daily.

Mint can’t natively control my display or sound, and it has had issues with internet and the Nvidia graphics card before.

Bazzite can natively control display and sound, and I haven’t had to use the CLI even once.

New Lenovo Laptop I tried both too. The mousepad and fn shortcuts for brightness and sound didn’t work on Mint. Fedora mousepad works perfectly and fn shortcuts work

Old 8 year HP 4gb ddr4 laptop neither worked well, so went with a lightweight distro that was debian based.

Old 12 year HP 16gb ddr3 laptop; mint gave internet LAN issues and DVD drive issues, keyboard shortcut for brightness issues. Fedora XFCE no issues.

Friend’s 4 year old Asus laptop; Mint gave issues with WiFi, Nvidia graphics card, and controlling screen brightness. Fedora no issues.

Another friend had similar issues with their laptop on Mint but said no issues on Zorin btw, and Zorin also worked better on their mom’s old desktop. Both are debian based interestingly enough, but Zorin is sort of paid so makes some sense I guess?..

This is all anecdotal of course, but at least based on what I’ve seen, Mint has never been as beginner friendly as it seems compared to Fedora in that it usually requires more tinkering. You even see that here with the pro mint comments suggesting some use of a CLI.

We don’t have vast swaths of Frozen Tundras. This isn’t Alaska.

And it’s actually stored south not north.

Finland smaller tho.

Weird everyone suggests Mint, when it’s way less user friendly then KDE Fedora. I mean, I guess on old hardware Mint is good, but anything newer (like the last 4-5 years) Fedora is pretty much set and forget.

Same with gaming, Bazzite is a WHOLE lot better than Mint.

If Finland could find space, Germany definitely can.

Nah, shadowheart. You know the Catholic Church likes converting people.

Afraid not, because 7 8 9.

Republicans literally wrote a playbook on how they’re going to do it called Project 2025 ya dunce.

It’s clear Americans need to learn the hard way just like Europe did a long time ago.

I have 2, a 32gb and a 64gb, that I’ve had for over 6 years I think. Not sure exactly how long since I’ve had them for a long time - since before I met my wife, so maybe I got them when they first came out?

I thought it was a lead joke but this apple sauce doesn’t have “cinnamon”

Six

Yeah but Bowser at least gives his subjects free healthcare. Sometimes even brings them back to life. When have you seen a skeletoad?

Well he is always saving the monarchy. Should have been kinda obvious 👑

Even then it happens, since I have them installed in separate SSDs. It’s an easy fix though, at least. But I’ve been lazy and just load the other distro with the boot loader lol

This is also sort of true if you have 2 Linux distros (like debian and fedora) when it comes to grub every now and then.

I believe it is.

Maybe if I sell Orange Pis with something like Plasma Bigscreen on them set up and ready to go I’ll make a website that also lists privacy friendly hardware alternatives with links, like these “dumb” TVs. Getting some ideas from these posts.

Orange Pi 3b with dietpi.

I’ve had Big screen work before in Raspberry Pi 4 (even made a meme about back when I was tinkering around with different OS’s on it to see potential uses for my rpi), but Orange Pis are cheaper and the hardware is more open source, so I’m curious if I would get better responsiveness out of it. Plus the Orange Pi I have has 8gb too.

I like your Steam Big picture idea too.

Don’t know, have been thinking of making something easy to use for awhile for some of my family members anyway. But has to be really easy since they’re not the most tech literate (well may my mom and definitely dad. If he can use whatever I make, anyone can).

I think you can just launch Steam big picture directly.

Maybe I should start selling little orange pis with with plasma big screen set up ready to go, also with Netflix etc ready

Plasma Big screen:

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/