Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐦⬛🧙🐈⬛👻🦇 Monday, October 28, 2024
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week agoI put Debian on my optiplex with xfce as the desktop environment and it uses less than a gig at idle. Debian’s great too because it has a slow update cycle so you don’t need to worry about anything breaking. You could set Plex to autostart so you never actually see the OS, then you have free extra RAM from using a lighter system
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I was just reading about the whole snaps debate. No experience with Debian but I might give Mint a go. Sounds like its the darling child these days.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I first used Ubuntu and found snap to be really slow so I switched. I’ve put Mint on a computer and it works great. It’s justified in being the new linux favourite.
The UI has been designed to look a lot like Windows as well, so it’s easier for people to make the switch
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 6 days ago
does it have a built in “take control” for folder management? if so, that could be a winner!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 days ago
I saw you’re having trouble with Debian at the moment. I don’t know what the exact problems you’re having are, the two things I can think of is making sure you’re in a root user, and you can edit individual files through terminal using nano