I recommend EndeavourOS to newbies because I’m biased towards Arch. I think it’s a relatively low BS distro that gets you up and running. You also have access to the AUR which is awesome.
If that seems like too much I’ve heard Linux Mint is dead simple and stable.
Just use EndeavorOS
Agreed. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s no putting it back in. Also the idea that the government of all things would be good at ‘regulating’ AI is idiotic. There is now a hot war technologically to prevent a hegemon from emerging in the AI space. Meanwhile the government is going to use it to surveil us and kill people on the battlefield. It’s unstoppable. I suspect that high tech devices will be regulated like guns in the next 5-10 years. We’re already seeing it with CNC machines and 3D printers.
He means neoconservativism.
I just use ChatGPT.
Do you like having a job and a place to live? That’s why.
EndeavourOS is the best imo because it’s basically arch with a minimal skin on it to aide in installation etc
I’ve been using it for the better part of 5 years now with no issues. I play games, self host, work etc It’s great.
If you install paru you get access to the AUR which has everything under the sun ready to install.
Arch is plenty stable
The reality is the seller bears part of the tariff so the consumer doesn’t pay the entire increase. That’s why tariffs have reciprocal tariffs in response. No one wants to admit it because it means Trump might be half right about something.
Tariffs increase prices but not necessarily by the same percentage as the tariff itself.
I have some ancient desktop that accesses media on my NAS. I run Plex on the same PC no problem. Stopped running Jellyfin because of the above-mentioned issues.
Jellyfin always irrecoverably crashes for me over time. It also suffers from permissions issues where videos won’t play sometimes due to a a transcode folder being full or something like that.
I want to use it but it always breaks.
If you aren’t Russia, China, USA or (to a lesser extent) Iran. Your only choice is which sphere of influence you want to fall under.
If you raise a family they can take care of you when you get old.
I wish there was a mobile app of the same quality as plexamp for jellyfin.
A well deserved rtfm
I’m not a programmer but I’ve been using linux for over 20 years. It’s crazy to me that someone who develops software for a living would not just run Windows but have never meaningfully ran linux. 🤔
I have a thinkpad that runs this. It’s a great little distro.
I want to get into Stellaris but everytime I start I realize I’ll have to play 1000 hours before I understand the basics and close the game.
EndeavourOS meets all of those criteria except for the GUI package management which, admittedly, is unnatural to the Windows convert. However conquering that small, surmountable hump will unlock the AUR which imo is the real value add. There are many packages that are not included in standard repos that are included in the AUR. Regardless users can choose whatever they want. EndeavourOS is a great distro that is not complicated. It uses the calamares installer and ships with KDE. An afternoon of reading about how pacman works and installing yay/paru provides a great user experience and they will never have to do a system upgrade.