I noticed that the computer was magnetic and played with magnets around it. The hard drive was totally wiped. Now my parents could have reinstalled the operating system but they just got a new computer instead.

More devices need to come with Linux out of the box. It should be possible to buy a device with Linux at your local Walmart.

It won’t, but it will be sold, and the moderation and censorship practices will change.

Be sure to remember to Activate Linux after a motherboard switch!

First full time distro was Manjaro. First exposure to desktop Linux was Ubuntu on a crappy school netbook. Now I use Arch (btw)

Yeah I get it. But it could be so much more than that.

Most smart TVs have a dumb mode. As long as you can plug in anything you want you should be fine.

TVs are also a product that seems to last, at least on my experience.

Sorry for the stupid thumbnail. It’s not my video.

Even if packages weren’t broken, the fact that they make it easy to use the AUR is problematic because the AUR expects the latest packages from the Arch Repos. Often, AUR packages will break on Manjaro for that reason.

Because it’s a large language model that parrots human information. Not particularly surprising.

Finally my qt6 apps have a consistent theme!

With VT and CT on the list, it seems like a NIMBY issue.

Least idiotic suburban planning.

But please don’t give unsolicited advice about Linux. No one wants that.

What?! You are doing something without a profit motive? That’s impossible. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Everyone is arguing about how they should fuel their cars, but I just want to see more electric powered transit.

No one is forcing you to use another app store. I’m sure the operating system will also allow you to turn off apps from unknown sources just like Android. More options for other people is not a bad thing. People paid for the device, they should be able to use it however they wish.

Arch might actually be a great start if you had prior experience in Linux and want to learn more about it. For example, if you are in computer science and you are doing systems programming you probably have used Linux at the command line, Arch might be a great way to continue working on similar projects.

Before Chromebooks, my towns school system had netbooks which were pitifully slow on Windows. They installed Ubuntu instead. The netbooks still sucked, but probably sucked a lot less.