I have 2, a 32gb and a 64gb, that I’ve had for over 6 years I think. Not sure exactly how long since I’ve had them for a long time - since before I met my wife, so maybe I got them when they first came out?

Okay but have you considered

Six

Even then it happens, since I have them installed in separate SSDs. It’s an easy fix though, at least. But I’ve been lazy and just load the other distro with the boot loader lol

Alwayshasbeen.meme

This is also sort of true if you have 2 Linux distros (like debian and fedora) when it comes to grub every now and then.

I believe it is.

Maybe if I sell Orange Pis with something like Plasma Bigscreen on them set up and ready to go I’ll make a website that also lists privacy friendly hardware alternatives with links, like these “dumb” TVs. Getting some ideas from these posts.

Orange Pi 3b with dietpi.

I’ve had Big screen work before in Raspberry Pi 4 (even made a meme about back when I was tinkering around with different OS’s on it to see potential uses for my rpi), but Orange Pis are cheaper and the hardware is more open source, so I’m curious if I would get better responsiveness out of it. Plus the Orange Pi I have has 8gb too.

I like your Steam Big picture idea too.

Don’t know, have been thinking of making something easy to use for awhile for some of my family members anyway. But has to be really easy since they’re not the most tech literate (well may my mom and definitely dad. If he can use whatever I make, anyone can).

I think you can just launch Steam big picture directly.

Maybe I should start selling little orange pis with with plasma big screen set up ready to go, also with Netflix etc ready

Plasma Big screen:

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

https://www.lg.com/us/business/digital-signage/lg-65ep5g

Or for something cheaper:

https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays/m651-2

It’s 5" smaller but:

https://www.lg.com/us/business/digital-signage/lg-65ep5g

I think I saw a 98" one tho too if you want bigger.

Samsung might have some options as well

Oops, I linked the 65". They have that same display in 45 and 50" as well

I mean it’s 4k HDR at 60Hz with an 8k:1 contrast ratio. You can see the specs on the page - seems picture quality is pretty good to me for the price.

But if you want something even fancier and have the budget for it, even LG has business displays without all the telemetry in OLED.

Unfortunately no.

The best option if you want a new tv without this stuff is buying a business display, such as here:

https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays/m651-2

This one even comes with a Raspberry Pi compute module.

You have to specifically search display and not TV.

Y’all yunggins should also learn to use hex code translators:

68 74 74 70 73 3a 2f 2f 77 65 62 2e 61 72 63 68 69 76 65 2e 6f 72 67 2f 77 65 62 2f 32 30 32 34 30 39 32 34 32 30 30 31 34 31 2f 68 74 74 70 73 3a 2f 2f 63 6f 64 65 6c 6f 61 64 2e 67 69 74 68 75 62 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 69 41 72 74 6f 72 69 61 73 2f 6e 6f 70 73 73 64 6b 2f 7a 69 70 2f 72 65 66 73 2f 68 65 61 64 73 2f 6d 61 73 74 65 72

Just look at some of the comments.

A lot are still “the OS is great you’re the issue” (nvm that clean installs sometimes have these issues) or “git gud scrub” or “just post some error logs” even though that gets a reply maybe half the time (which gets again into expecting something the average person wouldn’t know how to do btw, which is a problem if you want better adoption) or “but Windoze does has problems111!”.

The reality is that Linux still can’t be stably used for a lot of standard things: new(and newish) hardware, printing, lack of good UI design in many programs, and to a degree gaming (it’s been massively improved there though thanks to Proton).

Yeah, Windows has problems. But those arise more typically for advanced users (and that’s including Windows 11 being more and more broken over time).

If you just want to browse the internet and use some office apps, with no dual booting, it’ll just work. That’s the reality of it, and it makes sense considering it’s supported by a multi billion dollar company.

I know Linux for desktop has come a long way (I remember the Slackware days). But until the more boring stuff gets worked out, it’ll still be hard for it to be used more commonly, and thus harder for it to get more funding and usage as well. That’s why I think Linux is stuck in the 4% rut - sure it looks pretty now, but there’s still a lot of under the hood tinkering required to just do basic things on standard hardware.

Despite the venting it’s still a great thing it exists and I love Linux. But I think that’s what makes me wish it could work better in some cases.

Idk, maybe it’s just Debian based distros these days and I’m behind in the curve. Fedora based ones like Bazzite haven’t given me issues so far at least.

I’ll figure it out eventually.

Just wanted to vent, but it’s also frustrating because I really do wish Linux could be more widely adopted. But the tech heads here show why it won’t be any time soon, even with Microsoft making a nightmare OS in terms of privacy.

Well at least someone here got the point