I installed Pop OS on some old hardware “just to see what it’s like” 2 weeks ago and am already planning to switch my primary over by this weekend. If I can be done with Windows, I’ll be a happy man.

There’s a really small credit at the bottom from 1998, and I found some more from the same photoshoot just now. It looks like people have tried to find the source of this before, but I’m not seeing any answer as to WHY, lol

I was hoping nobody would notice they were macs when I made this because the image was too funny not to use…

Here you go:

it just works

A couple of weeks in, and I’m probably exactly where my chosen distro (Pop OS) is.

I know lots of people love KDE. I haven’t tried it yet. I just googled the difference when I was researching distros and chose GNOME because it looked more Mac-like, which is my preference.

Displaying the title of the currently playing media sounds useful!

This was a mild pain. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong, then I realized that the browser extension and tool worked flawlessly in Firefox, but not Brave.

I did install that one, and it’s pretty fun. You can even change the color of the fire and the speed of the animation.

GNOME extensions:

https://extensions.gnome.org/

There are so many options! I have it on the original fire one (with the animation sped up), but I’m considering switching to the DOOM inspired one.

This is the one I saw. It’s Internet radio though.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/836/internet-radio/

Uh oh.

I’m sure I’ll get there, but it’s all new to me right now, so the temptation to add a bunch of nonsense is real…

Well, there a desktop PC, a laptop, and possibly an old Chromebook that I’m considering…

Whoa, this sounds like a really cool project. I think I would enjoy doing this. Thank you for telling me about it.

That sounds cool. So, could you add additional old hardware to this “pool” to use as needed? Just, like cobbled together resources to run stuff?

This might be a little advanced for me at the moment.

Haven’t heard of it before. Is it a distro?

Lol, fortunately I tend to post stuff early in the day, and my gaming time is in the evenings after getting the kids to sleep.

A mild concern I have is that my GPU on the PC I’m using for Linux is an old 770… I probably won’t be playing anything close to current. But that’s not linux’s fault.