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Before the ArchLinux wiki became as good as it is, people like me used the Gentoo and LFS wikis as documentation for Linux.

There isn’t quite enough time in the world for me to be able to use LFS in anger as much I would wish. We make do with source distros with source managers like Gentoo (surprise!), Funtoo and others which give the source distros users just enough helping hands of dependency management.

Real tears would be shed were for LFS to disappear.

Don’t put parental controls on it. What do you want to control? Maybe put controls on the website that they can visit, but that goes on the DNS or router. Most kids will go to a mate’s house that doesn’t have any or as harsh parental controls anyway if they are particularly keen on seeing something that they ‘shouldn’t’. Parental controls are a fix for parents who can’t talk to their kids; they make the parents feel safer but just send the issues underground. Gen X will have been writing code for a while at your child’s age. I was. There was no choice if you needed to unlock a game you could’ve afford. At that time GUIs were a bad overlay over MS-DOS or DR-DOS. You had to know what you were doing to get the best out of it. Your kid will be fine with any distribution of Linux. If your kid is technically inquisitive likely to be good at maths/science, get them installing Arch. If not and they just want to use a browser, install one of the top five popular distributions from distrowatch.com. The Office suite for Linux is called LibreOffice. If you use Chrome as your browser you’ll easily tell if your child has been on bad sites because your timeline will be filled with adverts for unsavoury impotence remedies. Enjoy.

PS printers are still bastards in Linux. Happily they’re less bastardish in Linux (and Mac, because Linux and iOS use the same printing software) than Windows. If you like your life buy a decent Laser from anyone but HP - my generation bought the last decent HP printers they made.

Not really.

I joined early stuff was unstable. I couldn’t join one that was in my country (UK) and eventually managed to join one in Oz without knowing - just my luck!

I don’t have any noticeable delays in content loading unless there’s a general problem with the version of Lemmy.

Instance name if you’re taking residents?!

UK bloke with main/only account on Reddthat. Oh the irony!

If it runs Windows it’ll run Linux almost certainly. The cheaper you go, the more likely you’ll have lower priced or older components for WiFi, Bluetooth etc which may mean that you have to dig some firmware binaries out to get the whole thing running.

If you can take a USB stick with you of a typical Rescue distribution, and can boot it up, you’ll know what will and won’t work easily. The bits that don’t work may need some minor fiddling. As I said, there are usually walkthrough blogs etc around.

Have fun.

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Who said that (you have to use their custom mainline kernel)?

Fedora have an IoT distribution that fits the Raspberry Pi for example. There’s workstation and a ostree versions.

Armbian I’ve used in preference to Raspbian or whatever they call it today. I like the cleanest distributions as much as possible.

That’s all I have personal experience with, but there are others.

Meanwhile, others have suggested other boards. However, don’t think that Raspbian is it (pun intended).

I don’t but i note increasing difficulty in upgrading/keeping prior extensions to the new version of gnome.

For example, “recent files” extensions for the top bar used to number in the threes I think. With the last gnome version there was only one which wasn’t the most useful of the lot. I use it because it makes it easier beginning again the following day, rather than the extra step of opening the file mangler. I’ll probably go with the majority and drop it once I upgrade to Fedora 39.

Looks like gnome is becoming more useful to people in basic guise, incorporating many of the extension functions within the main GUI, and so the once popular extensions are becoming unmaintained.

Positive to the extent that it’s my preferred. For graphical apps only, not sure I need to say that.

GitHub priority selection didn’t seem to work, but I select that as a default.

Stable, a few bugs and the user mode addition/ removal is a bonus. I don’t try to install low scored apps. I Gnome-Software and then Google for reviews.

Custom install of Fedora 38/Gnome.

Does noone use glances anymore?

He wasn’t speaking loudly at all.

To be honest, Cockpit is the only (Web) one I know about.

RPM slave here.

Why just :1? The default is :3 and looking at the timings for zstd deflate speed vs compression level (Google for it … ), becomes slow at around 7.

Don’t mean removed to me but suggest you reconsider.

Perhaps a better question is: asking why Apple isn’t mainstream?

Linux almost always needs to be installed, whereas Apple is plug n’ play. Plus Linux has a reputation of being much more complicated than it actually is.

The disparity between the proportion of iMac sales vs the people who could afford an iMac is rather enormous, but I have this idea that for iPhones and Androids, this is reversed.

I find that conundrum, assuming it’s true, kinda interesting.

Niagara. Full disclosure: it’s the first and only one I’ve tried.

That you eventually delete the Windows partition.

I would really love a ‘standard’ Linux. Mint, Puppy, Fedora and so on are good enough.

I ‘pray’ every night for a killer Windows upgrade bug, but I think only Apple would benefit. Teens seem to have only iPhones as a status thing.

… and by implication, it guarantees that Linux will (almost definitely) never be the world’s desktop. Mainly because there’s no one single company to blackmail.

Because Windows or iOS is already loaded when they buy the machine.