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by qn9n 1y ago
Yep, pre-owned Thinkpad is going to be your best option, slap a decent Linux distribution on it and that thing will run for years and years. No need to spend thousands on a laptop that will be used by a kid or an elderly person.
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by qn9n 1y ago
Realistically you shouldn't need thousands of applications so remembering the names of the 20 or so apps I use isn't a big deal.
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by qn9n 1y ago
I believe, given their target audience, it doesn’t matter. The information is available for those who care, but for the non-technical user who is fed up with their current OS, the message is: “Feel at home on ZorinOS and experience a perfor
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by qn9n 1y ago
That makes more sense
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by qn9n 1y ago
Windows is like 80? For the average user the average cost of supporting windows is basically 80. You can get windows laptops for $100–$500 just get one of those and put Linux on it? Not a single person's grandmother (except maybe that
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by qn9n 1y ago
That and the dev tools are a massive upgrade.
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by qn9n 1y ago
Elementary's terminal emulator and the notification bell which rang every time my computer finished a bell is embedded in my brain. I learned how to program properly on that OS and enjoyed every minute of it.
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by qn9n 1y ago
I agree that it's important for user-centrism to be a focal point of Linux, however I am also happy that distributions like this exist, yes you do lose some of the _magic_ of Linux by replicating a workflow a user is already used to, h
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by qn9n 1y ago
As a longtime Mac user, just use Command-Space.
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by qn9n 1y ago
I get a `proxy detected` error whenever I try a vm on distrosea, I've tried disabling all content blockers and am not running a proxy of any kind.
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by qn9n 1y ago
My guess is if you are comfortable on Windows then Mint is perfect and works how you expect, if you come from macOS then perhaps Elementary would be better for you. Zorin negates this worry entirely and allows you to install one OS for ever
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by qn9n 1y ago
Not going to lie, I feel a System76 machine is way overkill for someones grandmother who likely doesn't really need that kind of horsepower... Especially given the cheapest model they sell is 1400.
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by qn9n 1y ago
I think that's the issue, you're a moderate power user so feature discoverability is more natural to you. I guess the issues his family had were related to things not functioning how Windows or macOS does (although Mint is pretty
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by qn9n 1y ago
Lume is a wonderful development experience for creating some static sites, you can get up and running nice and quick and you have a lot of freedom over choices such as the templating language and data formats you want to use.
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by qn9n 1y ago
I would highly recommend giving Deno Fresh[1] a go, it has a lot of the same features as Next.js but I find it to result in a much cleaner codebase overall. This coupled with Deno's built in KV store and hosted on Deploy makes for quit
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by qn9n 1y ago
macOS has far too many optimisations for running on Apple Silicon that it's not really worth it. Even though Linux is a great OS, macOS just feels right to use and has a lot of optimisations on Mac hardware.
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by qn9n 1y ago
The post does explain in quite a lot of detail, the user was running `claude` or [Claude Code]( https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/overview ) an Agentic editor that runs in the terminal. You can run
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by qn9n 1y ago
I similarly migrated to Ghostty but have found the built-in tabs and panes more than enough so haven't required tmux.
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by qn9n 1y ago
I mean it should to an extent, especially if a young person is using the device.
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by qn9n 1y ago
Reads like an 4 year old saying "Computer On"
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by qn9n 1y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: London/UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, Next.js, Docker, Source Control, CI/CD, Swift & SwiftUI. Resume: https://tinyurl.com/
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by qn9n 1y ago
Location: London/UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, Next.js, Docker, Source Control, CI/CD, Swift & SwiftUI. Resume: https://tinyurl.com/ms2ne7hu Web
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by qn9n 1y ago
This is way too much magic, starting to look like Vue or Svelte
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by qn9n 1y ago
This is good, I still much prefer macOS but it's always nice to have options and being able to install Linux properly from a well-known distribution on Apple Silicon is a great way to repurpose old machines.
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by qn9n 1y ago
I don't think everyone wants this, techies and people interested in the topic definitely like the idea but the average person is much happier with a phone, laptop or table that they use to connect to the world and don't really nee
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by qn9n 1y ago
Yeah if you see the generated output of a lot of coding llms you realise without direction from someone with knowhow they quickly end up creating a mess.
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by qn9n 1y ago
The nice thing about `mise` is everything is installed in `$HOME` without sudo access so the odds of it being able to run malicious code is quite low.
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by qn9n 1y ago
There are plenty of good guis, they just tend to be for things other than programming. That said they do exist.
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by qn9n 1y ago
I feel like the point of monospace is to be easier to read in text dense environments. I find it much easier to read a monospaced font in the terminal and it makes editing commands much nicer to work with.

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