Instructions unclear, dick now stuck in computer.
But does it run Doom?
Chances are she won’t even notice if you put Linux on her machine. My wife certainly didn’t. I tried to explain the concept of different OSs to her but she didn’t care. The Firefox icon looks a bit different, but that was the only thing she noticed.
I’m a big fan of Mint. It’s great for beginners but also for anyone who just wants to run their PC with minimal hassle. Considering those are pretty low power machines, I’d go for the Xfce editions too. Personally, I think Xfce is a bit sparse but it runs well on older hardware.
There are also a few distros specifically for older hardware, but I don’t have experience with those. I’d suggest starting with Mint and seeing how that goes.
I would always start all conversations with my friends with “Hey Windows peasants!” If I had any friends. These two things have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.
From what I’ve heard that also applies to some South American countries. But in any developed country it’s basically unthinkable to do something like this without getting caught.
Cool. Thanks for the info.
How much did you end up paying? Did you have to pay tax, customs fees etc? $200 sounds almost too good to be true. Do you run Linux on it? Any driver issues? I’m looking for a replacement for my NAS right now. On paper this one looks pretty good.
I’d go with a corporate hand me down just for sustainability. Those tend to be in decent shape and can be had for reasonable prices. Buying second hand is always a bit of a lottery but so is buying chinesium.
People generally recommend 8th gen or higher Intel chips for transcoding so I’d look at alternatives. I have a Dell with an 8th gen i5 and that works very well.
Ah … yeah … totally. I would never use some filthy peasant distro like Mint. No sir! Never never ever!
If you don’t compile from source, do you even Linux?
Also, Snap is proprietary. That alone is reason enough for me to steer clear.
Except all the cool kids use Arch, of course.
I’m an unwashed Mint peasant. Tell me how inadequate I am.
I got it to run before but then the 22 upgrade borked my system. I don’t know if it was because of ROCM or Pipewire. Then i reinstalled Mint and tried to install ROCM again, but that borked it again. So let’s see if it works this time.
Thanks, I’ll look into that.
You can use pretty much any device that runs Android or Linux to run Steam Link. Even something like a Chromecast will do.