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  • I managed to get one second-hand from a friend who had upgraded. It was my first entry into self-hosting and running 24/7 automations, like public media archival scripts. Due to the popularity and forum support, it was pretty low-friction which allowed me to dive in easily without a mentor or excessive barriers. I had no hardware experience beyond assembling a PC from parts, so the accessibility was what gave me confidence to start.

    A mini-PC would have been far more than needed, to the point it’s wasteful for this kind of work, and the better embedded options (I’m sure there are plenty, and cheaper) were just too intimidating or manual to have drawn me in.







  • It’s disappointing to see only one reply (so far) challenging your request. Why do you want a unique distro for day to day?

    I’ve used a variety of unique distros simply to explore them, or for specific purposes which the OS uniquely fills. And it’s great that some non-unique OSs have workflows that change the ways a new user may be familiar with (e.g. tiling window managers). But I’ve ultimately had a great time picking a stable, popular daily driver and creatively customizing it to look and act unique and personalized.





  • comfy@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•Western people in a nutshell
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    4 months ago

    I honestly don’t personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they’re either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they’re the occasional ‘patriot’ freak who’s nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.

    Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.







  • I’m only used it as installed onto a USB, and in fact I chose it for that reason, so my experience isn’t ideal because of that USB drive speed but it’s a great lightweight OS that looks nice out of the box. Lightweight doesn’t have to look clunky or feel strange or unfeatured. I recommend it if there are reasons that lightweight is important (old hardware, low-end hardware, portable OS, … )