Even a potato can run linux if you try hard(er) enough.

I’m typing this from my orange pi zero 3 w/ dietpi installed… aaaaaaand I don’t really “hate”, but more like “not care about it anymore”. Sure, its privacy concerns are truly a nightmare, but eh. It’s good to have options, that’s all. Even if one said “options” can be more harmful than good.

It may feel tasty and great today… but it (definitely) won’t feel great as much in the future. Have some respect on yourself and drink something healthy instead – there are better ways to have fun than that.

That aside, Debian can be very user friendly just like any other distro – I say go for it.

Nah, that’s a preconfigured distro.

For me, arm has already “won” this debacle – convenience > performance all day errday.

tl;dr:

dnf list installed > $anydir/meow

On new computer, with fedora installed and the meow file;

dnf install $(cat $anydir/meow)

You are in an environment where the downvote button exists as a self-validation/relief method rather than flagging off-topic/unrelated/low-effort/etc content as “bad”.

The majority are simpletons which (also) love simple stuff. That’s why.

One word:

Recall.

A “ez” solution would be simply stay on Windows and leave Linux as a novelty. A somewhat complicated solution – double booting (apparently Windows can be a privacy nightmare even while dual-booting). A quite hard one would be installing Linux and running Windows on a VM with GPU passthrough. The “are you bleeping kidding me?” approach would be buying another PC just to run Linux while leaving your “main” PC for Windows.

“Is there a sane approach for this?” – yep, there is! Which is, buying a console and use it solely for gaming while leaving your main PC for daily browsing and everything else (i.e Linux).

Orange pi zero 3 is arm-based and can be really viable for daily usage if you are into tinkering.

In a serious tone:

Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.

I use both nano and vim, so eh

I’m typing this on my rpi 4 w/ 2GiB (with three tabs open on my brave browser w/ also a youtube video playing on the background) and its good enough as is for daily tasks.

Is it possible to use Linux without the command line? Yes. Should you do it? Definitely not.

A contrarian take, but nextdns. It may not block youtube ads, but eeeh it works really well for most cases.

Yes! This is more like it. Thank you.

Now to figure out a package that acquires the latest news out of a rss link and prints it in the cli.

Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro?

No. Gaming distro is a “regular” distro preconfigured for gaming.

Thank you for your explanation, but what I had in mind “in depth” was to “store” the latest news acquired from a rss link into a variable (say, $NEWS), and then display it all way down with -vf drawtext=text="''$NEWS':fontsize=etc:other:attributes" followed by a scroll effect (to the left)… which I’m pretty sure its possible, but I don’t know which package is appropriate for the former.

ZorinOS > Ubuntu > Debian and then Arch. I even tried Alpine linux recently but got “filtered” by the lack of gpu packages. Looks like I need to get my “googling” improved a bit.