I thought it was funny he had a th he did not replace with the goofy character. at least one. I was not paying that much attention.

this is the distro I am hoping to switch to.

zorin has a free version though. the paid gives you the gui chooser basically which is not necessary to me. If I had a job I might pay but that would be just to support. Want to sign up for status coup news first though. Need that postive cash flow though so who knows.

Honestly if you can install windows on a machine and use it then you can install linux on a machine and use it. especially if its an out of the box distro (like my favorite zorin). when downloading something from the web you have to choose linux instead of windows and its usually .debian so its good for it to be a debian based distro. if someone else install the linux for the person then they just need the same skills they needed to run windows. mouse moves the same. login is same. doubleclick is the same. etc. etc.

7 was peak for me

So my standard thing with newbies is to suggest putting it on their old machine rather than dual booting. I feel most people will be amazed at how fast linux runs on their last pc and how slowly windows does on their current and if they dual boot it can lead to lazily keeping it booted in windows were as if the linux is available for web browsing and such it will help getting used to it. What I use I think is good for newbies. Its a lazy mans linux in the sense that it comes with everything you need out of the box. Its called zorin and its an ubuntu lts respin and once installed without doing any further tinkering you can rdp to a windows host, burn a disk, open and edit sound, image, and video files. along with standard web browser and libre office and such. I think most folks could go with it unmodified for most everything they need to do. Since its ubuntu you can add programs from the software program and update with the update program but if you feel the need to do like windows many downloads will have a debian linux option which when double clicked will work fine. also out of the box it has wine with play on linux installed so often times windows programs can be run by right clicking them and telling it to run with wine.

Im going to do the opposite and exclaim why I did not sooner. So my career has been in IT and most users machines were windows. It makes it easier to run the same thing and deal with issues yourself that you will have to do for others. Add in I also found it best to utilize the oldest hand me downs for myself. This is mainly to handle the person who wants an upgrade. If their machine is older or less powerful than yours then that is their argument. In addition I did tech support for my wife who I could not convince to go to linux if I was not on it myself and I at one point was buying multiple machines to handle longevity. IE I would buy three of the same laptop ultimately (was good to have a bit of delay so that the last one would be in warranty longest). Anyway my wife just wanted to powerful of hardware as she is, well, spoiled and it was to expensive to double or triple that up. So I started just using whatever old laptops I could find including hers. Also my roles got to the point were I never dealt with users laptops at work although generally I had to use a windows one. So when windows 11 came I suddenly realized all the reasons I had for not moving to linux were pretty much gone. And well the whole screenshot everything and feed it to ai was beyond the pale. I have to say before that too I was getting pretty frustrated playing wack a mole with shutting down telemetry. So I already had used and like zorin in playing around in vms and such and finally just threw it on my actually sorta new/old laptop. So I encourage people who are new or hesitant to put it on their old machine (which is likely way newer than my new/old) but in my case I kept the old one for the few use cases I needed with and do most of the low hanging fruit on linux. Its a bit frustrating as I have been out of work so I won’t buy anything that is not strictly necessary but alls I need is a drive to move over the higher fruit.

can it take any sim?

hows the camera?

I doubt there is any. With craiglist you did in person cash in a public setting. I only did exchanges in the police station parking lot and they had cameras for that purpose.

Why do they keep on using the term frontend? It sounds like its android app and android app only. No idea why it would not be a linux program but whatever.

good one.

not sure what to say. I do just close the lid on my zorin and also tell it to sleep from the start menu and shut it down. I have had no issues but with something like sleep I wonder how much is hardware vs software. I did have an odd thing with my audio on kde for some reason and had to log into gnome to fix it but it never reoccurred (so far).

I mean I would not contribute due to the mit license if anything. Many people feel the concerns are overblown but given things can be forked its not like you would loose the contributed code. Still if Im going to give my time I will go copyleft.

I always recommend what I use, but what I use is because its an out of the box distro. So its about installing and immediately being productive. Its called zorin and its an ununtu lts respin that comes with wine and playonlinux, disc burning software, libre office, basically as much or more than a typical windows machine would have but by and large libre software (it will ask at installation to use proprietary stuff like nvidia drivers). Even an rdp client. It also does a windows like gnome desktop setup but I have found I prefer to instal kde. I have installed a few things since having it but they are for some specific thing. The main point is its easy and gets you going fast. If this sounds like what you would like then try zorin. Its main weakness I would say is its lts and the farthest thing from bleeding edge you can get, also for strictly gaming there are better distros I think.

Take this with a grain of salt but long ago someone broke into my house and at the time I was futzing with something so had the skin off of my tower and they did not touch it. I think they figured it was broke. Knew a guy who made a server closet with bare boards on wood shelves.

I made the switch and it took no restructuring of my life. Like 90% of my computer usage though is browser.

I don’t think you understand what the word figurative means.

ugh. I feel like you did not read my reply. Im saying his use of the word theft should not be taken literally given the context of his statement. he was not looking to say apple stole code he was looking to say use gpl because otherwise corps get code and don’t contribute back.

But that is what he was actually saying. His comment was he would rather see it as gpl because mit effectively allows the hard work to be stolen like what we saw with apple and bsd. Hes not blaming apple he is just saying he would not have issue if it was gpl instead of mit. Again its like you have to look at the whole message and context for meaning rather than the strict definition of the one line.