I see. In that case I see no reason not to use antiX. It’s so lightweight it can run well on a 20 year old laptop. You don’t need latest drivers to play Minecraft (you can install them if you want like on any Debian base but there is no need for that). antiX is also easy on hard drive space since it’s smaller than most distros.
What use cases are you planning for it? I mean, antiX would totally rock on that machine. However having Wayland, being lightweight and easy to maintain is kinda tough to find. Lose Wayland part, it’s antiX. Lose lightweight part, it’s Pop OS, openSUSE Leap, etc. Lose easy to maintain part (for a newbie), it’s Arch (mostly derivatives that come with a GUI installer).
Though if I was preparing that device for someone else, I would probably go with LMDE.
Indeed. I hate it. But gotta keep it around until the device is dead. :/
iTunes just doesn’t work even for really old ones for just to put some music on iPod. Haven’t tried with Wine 10 but I don’t think that’s changed. This is the only reason I keep a Windows VM with an old iTunes in it.
European Union Redstar Operating System?
I can only guess. People really act terrible sometimes.
Actually haven’t seen the comments myself but I can guess at this point. Maybe he should’ve completely disable it for the article.
It seems Phoronix account-walled the comments section. Hmm.
Mirrors are fine since the official website is not accessible on every country. They just suggest verifying the file signature.
Normally there shouldn’t be a problem with packaging but Tor documentation recommends it like that to ensure security and authenticity. Even though it’s self-updating, they also recommend to delete and re-install it time to time, instead of just updating.
There might not be problems with other packaging but the point here is to not trust anything other than the official sources for maximum privacy I believe.
Well, for Tor Browser even AUR isn’t recommended. Just download it from official website and put it under somewhere like ~/.local/opt.
I don’t think so. This one has Android build but it seems to be in alpha stage.
This seems to be a Foliate fork. I have a blurry font problem with Foliate and couldn’t use it for a while, but this one doesn’t have that bug. Thanks for sharing.
Honestly, whatever floats your boat. There are many good options here, just try all and use the one you liked most. Or just go and pick one, or use the one that comes pre-installed in your distro.
Recommended ones:
I know it’s not an exact comparison but I think it’s fair. Almost every Windows user (or the ones who fix others’ computers) hit a situation where they had to modify registry (or run a .bat file they have no idea what it does -there were even official solutions like this-) to fix something, at least once in their lives. As a go-to tech-savvy person for a lot of people around me, I know I did this all the time. (I still remember that once someone asked me to remove 3D Objects folder because they couldn’t and it was also a registry fix). On the other hand, while Linux is mature with its commandline, it also came to a point where a normal user don’t need it, just like in Windows (it’s a plus if they know at least how to paste commands if they need though). For example, my sister uses openSUSE and I taught her about YaST and she never had a single issue in the last 2 years, everything is done via GUI. She can install flatpaks if she needs too.
Well, Windows was never perfect. People just got used to its shenanigans. They tend to meddle with bullshit registry yet somehow basic commands on Linux is too complicated.
A lot of banking apps don’t even run on a custom Android ROM and it gets worse. Haven’t tried CJK keyboards on PostmarketOS so wondering that as well.