I thought exactly the same thing, as previously though, I was willing to swallow the $8 (at the time) in order to use my tablet for coding (may as well be a laptop running android tbh).

That’s removeded up, it was $8AUD when I got it like a year ago. removedin corpos and their price hikes.

I was happy to swallow it to code on the go, but I only used it for a few weeks. Sometimes I lay in bed to code though so I can watch TV as well (never mind all the errors I make as a result).

I’ve got a Lenovo P11, goes pretty well on a charge, and VSCode is available on android, haven’t used it much as I almost always code at home now.

Ladles and jellyspoons of the fediverse, I have reason to suspect Linux may be afoot.

Take my angry upvote, you heathen.

All goods matey, I have yet to do the sensor, I was looking into custom firmwares the other night and found some cool stuff, however my ender refused to accept any updates to it’s standard firmware, so I figured I’d ask here.

Appreciate it, I’ll look further into it, a touch sensor is next on the list, be glad to have the knowledge handy when the time comes.

As someone who’s currently upgrading his setup, I’ve had no luck so far with firmware.

Can you point to some resources? I’m still a novice and I’m sure I’m not the only one. I’ve done some DDG searching and turned up some hot garbage, maybe I’m looking in all the wrong places?

I got lucky, I converted from the ol’ removedheap that reddit became at the time of the protests.

This was in the before-times when folks here were more excited about helping people see the FOSS light than they were complaining about people searching for the FOSS light (repeatedly).

I never needed to make a post of my own, there were a good few getting around and a LOT of helpful/insightful/educational comments with a derth of information and sources provided for further investigation.

Once again (as previously in this comment section), I vote megathread.

As someone who recently made the switch (without posting about it woohoo!), I’ve found more information across the clone posts than in any one thread, I second the megathread idea mentioned above.

I’ve made a few comments regarding distros/switching on many of the aforementioned posts and I would happily dig them up and repost them as a comment on a megathread, on the slim chance my experience helps smooth out the entry for others.

The discord thing is improving (slowly), also partly it now recognizes Linux games launched from steam, but not proton ones. I haven’t tried lutris or anything yet, but I haven’t booted into windows for weeks now.

I’ve also become more comfortable with Linux in general so that’s likely helped too.

My windows did this to me while I was dual booting with Mint, re-enabled secure boot when I went back to windows to check a wiki real quick.

This is what I did, I’ve been using windows since 98.

I am now on Linux Mint full time, it had it’s teething issues (also not my first distro) but all it took was some DDGing and persistence. I actively cringe when I’m forced to boot into windows for something now.

As I’ve said in previous comments, it’s absolutely worth the effort, spend some time on different distributions, every distro is a little different. On this note, absorb as many suggestions from the Lemmings as possible, regarding Linux and FOSS they really know their removed.

Basically, tread your own path, ask for help if you need it and do it at your own pace, in your own direction. Everyone’s needs are different, the distro list is as long as it is for a reason.

You really do just need to removed around to find out (what you like).

I will be in this graph very soon, just need to load the drive into the case and hook it up 🥳 (Soon to be) bye Bill Bing(Gates)!

Yes, I agree, I am at stage 3 and stage 4 looks more enticing every single damn day.

Cheers for the info, I’ll have a deeper look into it.

Yep, having stumbled around and learned many of this the hard way (guided by a knowledgeable friend) it was a big headache, however it’s stuff I’m not going to forget anytime soon.

I was going to do this, but ended up happening across the Orange Pi 5 upon release and managed to get an order in.

I had it running Ubuntu 22.04LTS, but there were some OPi specific issues I just wasn’t capable of troubleshooting myself at that stage, I’ve since switched it to 23.01 non LTS and is much better suited to me.

That said, even after discovering gnome extensions I still dont like gnome that much. I’m trying to get a better handle on CLI so I can abandon the desktop all together later.

But yeah, having a whole device just for experimenting with has been huge, very much helps keep me from distractions, I usually will just swing my monitor towards my bed and play twitch while I mess around.

Edit: it’s also saved me the issue of adding to my already chaotic daily filesystem, all my projects are on GitHub, I’ve gotten more proficient at getting a distro going, the urge to hop around a few more is really growing now.

Glad I’m not the only one, sometimes it’s just easier to ssh than walk to wherever I left my phone lol