In my experience a stable distribution is a “set and forget”, unless you start tinkering with it.

I have countless of users where I’ve installed something like Linux Mint and it’s been literally running for years without any issues. These users have no idea how to use a computer, except for logging in and opening the browser.

Obviously the more complex a setup, the more shit can go wrong.

Most people who go out and buy a computer doesn’t understand what an OS is. If Linux was standard when you bought a PC, it would be the dominating OS. I mean, you could switch the OS to Linux on the computers and I think most people wouldn’t realise when they buy it lol

What do you mean? It’s a video made by The Linux Experiment, where he talks about the news.

Lenovo has become utter crap. At work, I’m replacing our Lenovo’s with the Framework 13

I use Linux Mint and I disabled it because it was blocking the nvidia driver from initiating. I’m sure I could fix it, but can’t be arsed to.

That’s pretty obvious. Only if the victims were rich white dudes. That’s when it gets real.

Bluesky doesn’t work if the IP gets blocked in Turkey, but with Mastodon, you would have to ban every single IP from every Mastodon instance and potentially all other IPs on the Fediverse.

Let’s say Turkey blocks mastodon.social. Now people in Turkey can’t access Mastodon.social under normal circumstances, but they can still access fosstodon.org, mstdn.social etc. and access the content from Mastodon.social through those other sites.

Only issue could be media uploaded to Mastodon.social, that’s blocked, unless it has been cached by the website you use.

A medium ranged laptop can be rather expensive and how would you deal with upgrades or a dead drive?

I’m just used to the “/s” for when something is written sarcastically.

/s?

There’s Mastodon and a ton of others.

10 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD

That doesn’t sound cheap though and it would become more expensive over time, right?

If only there was a decentralised alternative, that was more or less immune to this… LOL

Also DMs always go through Bluesky themselves.

Sorry. I meant to say British pound £: https://my.ionos.co.uk/server-configuration/?skipContractSelection=true&skipDomainCheck=true&cmsIdentifier=tariff-core-vps-linux-xs&pageName=servers%2Fvps.

IONOS have a VPS for €1 a month.

It should at least install properly.

What kind of installation medium do you use? Have you tried a different USB? How do you make the bootable USB?

Could be an issue with Secure Boot in BIOS.

Which issues do you have with Mint?

It’s certainly weird that you have these issues on a Framework + an officially supported distribution.

Does it really run flawlessly on Windows 11? Because we have Framework 13’s at work, which run W11 and they DO NOT run flawlessly.

What about a fresh installation of Ubuntu? Do you have issues then? It could be some kind of configuration that you do, that screws with your system?

https://cider.sh/ is an Apple Music client for Linux.

It’s initially not very expensive to run, but as it grows you’ll have to pay more and more for storage.

Videos not loading could be a client issue, low bandwidth from client or server, misconfiguration on the server etc.

A reload usually fixes this, unless the server is actually down.