I’m just so sick of Microsoft and Google. But there’s two things holding me back:

  1. I wanna play Steam games on my PC

  2. I am just an amateur hobbyist, not a tech wizard

Is there any hope for me?

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    13 hours ago

    These folks are all giving great advice but also let us know when you’re ready to really fuck around and have fun with your Linux superpowers 😀

    You, in practically no time at all: “Nearly everything is working great! Now I want to make my desktop change it’s background to NASA’s picture of the day while also putting all my PC’s status monitors on there. Oh! And I want my PC to back itself up every hour over the network automatically with the ability to restore files I deleted last week. I’ve got KDE Connect on my phone and it’s awesome!”

    Then, later: “I bought a Raspberry Pi and I want to turn it into a home theater streaming system and emulation station.”

    …and later: “What docker images do you guys recommend? I want to setup some home automation. What do you guys think of Pi-hole?”

    “I’ve got four Raspberry Pis doing various things in my home and I’m thinking about getting Banana Pi board to be my router. OpenWRT or full Linux on it? What do you guys think?”

    …and even later: “I taught myself Python…” 🤣

    • andrewth09@lemmy.world
      1·
      18 minutes ago

      “I want to copy my root, home, and boot partition contents into a bigger drive I formatted with in terminal. Let’s boot from it and see what breaks.”

      spoiler

      /etc/fstab partition UUIDs needed to be fixed by hand. GRUB config needed to be updated to launch straight into bash and I needed to remount the root directly as R/W because GRUB was trying to protect me from myself.

    • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      And finally: I rewrote all my stuff in C because I didn’t like the overhead of Python and wanted to go more minimalist.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      13 hours ago

      lmao 🤣 wouldn’t that be nice?

      Honestly that’s kind of the dream (I already have raspi theater plans).

      It’s sad how much technology has changed since what we thought it was gonna be in the 80s. we HAVE the capacity to do all those things, but we get locked out of modifying our own devices!