For me it started going south just after Windows 2000. XP started ‘thinking’ for you, forced online activation and hid all the settings away in little fluffy Fischer Price boxes. That was the point that your computer started not belonging to you, in my opinion.

Have you watched the movie? My daughter forced me through it- it’s actually not bad at all.

I read read as read and was briefly confused.

Whoever believes this: they saw you coming.

Hi. Looks very nifty. What license is this under? GPL?

Also a suggestion: it might be worth putting the screenshots you have here inside your README.md so people can see what they are getting.

Just by chance I was in your exact situation. I have Vodafone Kabel with theoretically only ipv4 over ipv6. If you ring them up and say you’re looking to set up port forwarding and you have a specific legacy application that needs an ipv4 address, like an MS-DOS server without a TCP6 stack, they have the ability to assign you an ipv4 address. I had to get passed to second level support for them to do this though, but they ended up doing it for me for no additional cost! Try it out and viel Erfolg wünsche ich dir :-)

I can vouch for a wireguard+jellyfin setup - I don’t have it on a VPS though. Instead, I have a little mini PC running opnsense (and wireguard) in the attic. I can open one port, connect from almost everywhere and have access to my whole internal network while I’m away.

KRYTON

So they can push and pull at the same time, silly!

I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Hey Pacman. What’s up?

As a brit, this actually looks pretty tasty!

Chuckled too much about “/s for the morons”. I might be stealing that!

Agreed. Bloody fantastic for general purpose. Seems like a well kept secret. A lot of people assume Bazzite is just Steam in Big-Screen mode.

To be honest you are in the right place already. If you take the first step and install Mint, Fedora Kinoite or something similar on the laptop, there are many people here who would be willing to offer you support for free here on Lemmy.

You won’t find a lot of support IRW/IRL though as many companies are still sleep-walking in the Windows world.

You will however need to take some steps for yourself. If you’re willing to get over that first hurdle, you will almost certainly find someone here to help you with any problem you have (including installation).

So, I’m an all-around Bazzite fan, but it does have a bit of an odd learning curve. It’s easy to use for a beginner, child, or grandma. However, if you’re used to fiddling with your system, it might be a little harder to get into because you have to navigate the immutable nature of the OS, which can complicate some online tutorials and potentially lead to frustration for an intermediate/experienced user migrating from Windows.

So my suggestion would be:

Child - Bazzite

Grandma - Bazzite

Gamer - Bazzite

Experienced Windows user - Fedora or Mint, then once you’re used to Linux, Bazzite

Developer - Bazzite

I personally use the Gnome version. It’s really polished and pretty.

En garde!

Not specifically a joke, but more intended to make thought processes skip a little and to amuse:

My friend: “Didn’t they teach you grammar at school?”

Me: “no, she didn’t go there.”

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…and, if anyone ever tells me to check my pronunciation, I snap back quickly and say it should be pronOUNCEiation, while acting as serious as possible.

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In around 20 years I have gotten about 30 blank stares and one giggle, once. It was completely worth it.

It’s not about you, but rather about those whom you teach.

Does anyone know what the (gifenv) means or where it comes from?