Fastmail.

But still, all of it implies you can get Linux on that thing in the first place, which is (especially with fake specs) very hard to guess

Sure, if someone puts in the time to sort those, great

But even at 5$ a piece, and if 1/5 work decently with Linux, you are looking at like 45$ / working piece, or even more if someone is refurbing it

For comparison: I can buy a lot of x64 (kinda nice, since arm is not as supported everywhere) thin client with way more ports, changeable memory and everything, for 30$

https://www.ebay.de/itm/306411387131?keyword=fujitsu+thin+client&relatedSearch=true

Tl:;Dr: sort of

The guy mentioned here got really lucky

the android TV had a standartised rockchip SoC which had a port for Debian, and booting externally was really easy

That’s the 1/100 chance. Even when, what are you going to do with 8 gig of rom and 1 gig ram?

grapheneos’ attacks on other groups

Where Attack? The worst Graphene ever did was say that they don’t support certain Phones like FP because they are not updating their OS to their liking

Are you gonna go to Qubes OS next and complain that they are attacking laptop manufacturers (don’t officially support Laptops because they don’t have an open source UEFI)?

Great, but when kbigscreen.

I need a decent Chromecast replacement

Thats what I mean, in the last few weeks/months, there was no big thing that win users needed to be able to switch.

Linux in a vacuum is a great OS, and what it cant do in the context of Windows is more a „Proprietary formats and software being Industry standard” problem than a Linux problem.

I’m not saying that everyone should just abandon the standards , but that if you need to have these standards, nothing is going to change in a production envoirment that magically makes Linux work for you (in home you can argue about VMs and proton, but that’s not a valid tactic for companies), and you need to keep using windows.

And the other way around, if you don’t need any of these standards, you don’t have any reason to still use Windows, except that you don’t want to change.

This.

For Years, you had the Option to use Linux. Since the release of the win 11 beta, Linux has not made any relevant big steps. The leopards have simply decided to eat your face this time.

A refugee would be someone losing their home in a bombing. A windows 10 turned Linux user is more like a Trump voter turned no kings protestor because he though sending the government emails will sure stop the anti trans laws.

And no, sOmE uSeRs hAvE tO uSe WinDoWs is not an argument. If everyone who was still on windows until now was reliant on it, why are they installing and switching to Linux? Every new Linux user is someone who was simply too ignorant to install it.

you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines

Kinda the reverse for me

I need to fiddle with Massgrave and various debloat scripts to run win

Your applications/games only work well on native Windows

Windows for docker, winboat, etc

serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods

I would argue sudo and normal file permissions do the same

Makes helping Windows users harder

???

That is the interface for LSW AKa. Windows for docker

Most bigger games are full of reviews from „woke detectors”, followed by trolls spamming rainbows, followed by people with trump pfps inviting into their Nazi communities

Same problems

Not open source for once

Does anyone remember how the Devs from there didnt want to release for Android because ApPlE iS sOoOo mUcH mOoOrE sEcUrE

Get rekt.

Theres also 1337x.

1. use a VPN, preferably mullvad

Leaches are IPs requesting data from other peers who already have their data they need

In order for a leech to request data, it must first know what IPs it can request it from. A Tracker simply tracks how many users are on the torrent and their IPs

Also a magnet link is simply a torrent file, if you remove the file part and have all the data in a long link

Do you need these on the go?

You could just go out of your way and keep an old phone in your closet

thats why my whole rant was pointed at people working and/or having the same amount of brain wrinkles as IGN employees

Because yes, most mainstream people are just like this when reviewing Google less phone OSs

Well yes, linux phones are great

But its kinda the same as opting out of Gservices, you gotta find a new Linux native app for everything for it to work smoothly

Which, for once is great since libadwaita and qt has great scalability, so most linux apps already look great on Linux mobile

But if you depend on Android native apps, you cant really expect more from Waydroid as you do from wine

in other words: No IGN, you cant just boot into a linux phone and complain that you cant download Instagram from the Play store

Ubuntu Pro is free for up to 5 machines.

Ubuntu pro Costs handing over your Data to a company.

And if the whole concept of getting extra security updates for unsupported packages really bothers you

And if it Bothers you that a company actually supports the packages it is making availible…

No, Ubuntu pro brings faster Security updates, even for still supported apps.

is the only difference the syntax ? How libraries interact? How disks are mounted ?

Ah, yes.

You know, the things you just mentioned ARE the basic differences. As long as both work on the same architecture, and none reinvent the wheel, everything is the same.

And as long as you don’t reinvent the computer and make a new assembly and binary, a kernel and libraries will be the most effective ways to work.

Its like saying „what is the difference between python and c++ anyway? If we just strip away everything differentiating the 2, we just get a programming lang.

And yes, I would prefer Linux, for the same reason a python Dev prefers python and a C++ Dev prefers C++: because I’m Used to the syntax and the quirks of Linux. I don’t want to jump back to the ungodly CLI of cmd, powershell and everything else. I have learned the ins and outs of Linux, and that’s how its gonna stay.

You get to see what you’re paying for before you pay.

Yes, for the first box. The box after is not shown. So its basically just „hey, if I open this Box, it could very well be that the next box will be a legendary knife”

So you are just betting for what comes after that

It does not.

You can install a Sandboxed Version of it, but not more