Freelance/Consultant Web Dev, EVE Online Player, Linux/FOSS advocate.

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  • I mean every web dev my age I know pretty much all started with geocities so this is valid. that’s how I started. I had a legal pad that was just full of html where I wrote down all the various tags and what they did. Even more devs I know got their start by modifying their MySpace pages.


  • I set up my own instance but…I don’t use it. I followed a bunch of other instances and channels and I’m not sure if I didn’t configure it correctly but i’m getting no live streams, no real good content, just nothing I want to watch.

    I don’t know. I want to like it but there’s just not much decent on it that I can find.







  • I think the appeal of it is more the fact that you pay a premium to get the software that these users would likely use right off the bat and one on one tech support. So your valid point of stability and ease of upgrade really, at this point, wouldn’t be a concern for these users.

    Like say for example you’re not that tech savvy and you want to switch just because you’ve seen posts online about how switching to Linux will get more life out of your laptop. Being that you’ve only ever known Windows would you rather deal with like a ubuntu stackoverflow or Arch forum or whatever for support or pay the premium to get one on one support for the OS? That’s their demographic.

    I would say the vast majority of Zorin users want something that “just works” and for them Zorin provides that. I’ve said previously I’m by no means a fan of the OS as I don’t like the fact that some of the features that you can get for free on other distros are locked behind a paywall but at the end of the day I get it.



  • I recently slapped linux on an old (10 years or so) chromebook and you’re right. It’s a…process to say the least.

    what’s it good for? not much. It flips around so you can use it as a tablet/touch screen but my god was that like almost a days worth of tinkering to get working correctly. if you flipped the screen over to make it a tablet the screen wouldn’t rotate correctly. lots of adjustments just to get it to work. Also you have to keep in mind the storage you have available. mine has all of 16gigs.

    So what’s it good for? a glorified terminal station that can SSH into my server. I initially went with XFCE but after awhile I figured even THAT was overkill as all I was really using or could use was the terminal. So I slapped Cagebreak on it (honeslty could have just gone with Cage) and use it as a simple termnial station and a glorified jellyfin client via jftui.

    Was it worth it? no, but it was more of a hobby project and nothing that I would ever consider as a daily driver at all. It’s just an old POS chrome book I can use while laying in bed to watch a movie or tv show from my server and mess around in the terminal.