Any of the ostree variants of Fedora, be they Fedora Official or downstream ones like the Universal Blue family

the age of the device put me off, it still runs android 11 as well apparently. I wouldnt want to buy one now and then a refresh comes out

how does it go for codec support out of Jellyfin? I’m starting to collect and also rip AV1 content, which is fine for computers and phones (and my newer TV does it natively), but trying to find a streambox that wouldn’t need to transcode it is proving harder than expected

Fedora’s repo build has had this turned on for literally years

there is some change of workflow, but its not difficult. The benefits outweigh the changes or any perceived draw back IMHO

Any chances you guys could suggest me one setup that “just works” no ifs and no buts? Or does it not exist in the Linux world?

You’ve given so little insight into your experience

My most recent hardware has been fine

• My framework 13 amd works perfectly with Fedora Kinoite.
• My Minisforum UM780XTX has been a great Steam console with Bazzite
• My desktop is a gigabyte x570 board with a ryzen 3700X and a 5700XT GPU, has been solid for years, running Fedora KDE and then Kinoite.
• My workstation at work is a HP 845 G11 and it works fine, also running Fedora Kinoite

In the past I’ve had thinkpads (an X1 carbon and a T485), also good choices

Over my 12 years of using Linux as my daily for work and home (and about 13 years of fiddling with it on and off before that), avoid realtek hardware, avoid nvidia gpus, avoid switchable graphics, avoid strange OEM feature devices. Check hardware for compatibility before you buy it. Stick to mainstream distros, not niche 1 man community distros. I’ve moved to immutable/atomic distros because they are harder to tinker with outside of user space, as historically tinkering is what got me into trouble, now I do that in a container away from my base OS.

I work tech in schools (in Australia) there are definitely tech savvy enough kids that will probably spool up their own fediverse instances

gnome network displays is on flathub and works from KDE Plasma

Have you considered Bazzite? Similar to Nobara, but it’s immutable. You can treat it like an appliance and even updates itself

I have an OG Vive, it works fine. I have more issues wrestling with the flatpak version of steam’s steamVR components than with the actual hardware

good if they’re gaming on old hardware I am sure. Mint lacks modern feature enablement and it baffles me that people keep recommending it

Sounds like buying a steam deck with extra steps for the person who wrote this article haha

Steam Deck is not available in all regions and grey imports can be a hassle, for some people this is the safer road

I bought premium years ago as part of Google Music family (pre yt-music) and stuck with it, it was affordable. I am more than capable of blocking the ads over the years. Other members of my family want to use YT without ads on a myriad of devices. When the price got hiked at the start of the year I was really annoyed, and probably would have dropped the service if it were just me. However my family made it pretty clear that they did not want to jump through the hoops of blocking the ads.

I rebase my work machine to rawhide just for fun and testing

what’s your plan on teaching these people to maintain their selfhosted instances? Are you selling support? I mean you could script pulling and recreating containers, but without eyeballs on it, that stuff will die eventually.

a private school needs to give the appearance that they do, or at least have this capability when someone asks. On the ground, its barely used

I work IT in schools. There is limited surveillance tools on college owned devices. Mainly logging of web traffic. Screens can be viewed when on campus network, not reachable off campus.

No one in our department has time to waste looking at web history or screens. Teachers don’t bother to use it much either. We only look at it when directed by college executive or when I go in there at the end of term to clear the alerts.

I’d imagine most other schools are similar, no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices

I just build what they need, networks, auth, security etc -I’ll leave teaching to the teachers

I Sysadmin in education here in Brisbane. Half our server stack is Linux on a Nutanix hypervisor. I do all my work from Linux, my junior admin recently moved his workstation to Fedora KDE, I use Kinoite.

The student and staff devices are 95% Windows, manager doesn’t care what we use to administer. Officially we’re a “Microsoft School”

I log into EGS via heroic a few times a year to claim a free game. Yet to ever play any said free games 🤷