I bought a new mini PC the other day that shipped with windows 11. Before installing Linux I thought “I’ll just boot into windows to make sure the hardware is all correct”.
I got as far as the windows welcome screen and thought “it’s actually just going to be faster and easier to install Debian instead of going through all this windows bullshit”
How is it any different to viewing a shared Plex library to the end user?
They have a reverse proxy setup, so their family or friends would simply enter that url into a jellyfin client and sign in.
So yeah, I think an average tech illiterate person can do that
Distro hopping sounds like too much work. I went from mint and was happy on that for years, then I went to Debian and I’m happy here. I’m curious about Fedora but not curious enough to be bothered with a new install.
I’ll live vicariously through others
Yes he’s rich and out of touch, but what’s the dumb opinion here?
That the steam machine is a good computer? That the experience of using steamOS on a steam machine is seamless? The gaming performance isn’t top tier?
I started my Linux journey about 5 years ago on mint with the cinnamon DE. It’s not the fanciest but it got the job done, no real complaints.
Recently I made the change to debian without too much thought on the DE and I was presented with gnome. Took me about 5 minutes before I was looking up alternatives.
Now on KDE plasma, and out of the 3 I’ve tried it’s definitely my favourite.
They commented for emphasis, they’re agreeing with you. They worded it better so they get more upvotes.
This isn’t reddit, upvotes don’t matter, don’t worry about it