Color change, eh? Sounds like B+W makes displays more energy efficient, that should be significant!

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Linux isn’t for you. Trust me, as someone who doesn’t really like using Linux all that much.

If you stick with it, pick one. Stick with it. Use its documentation, not online forums.

You can’t use online forums because CLI on how to do things varies from distro to distro. So a command for Ubuntu is useless somewhere else, most of the time.

That results in following guides and having it stop working part way through. You will never get anywhere like this. When you eventually do get somewhere, you’re going to take some time away, or you’re going to break something on accident. Then you’ll have to set it all up again and likely will have lost some data if you weren’t careful.

I built a server PC for Plex and a few other programs, after a number of years running various temporary projects, like Raspberry Pi servers I felt semi-confident. It was going for about 7 months and now it is stuck in a grub menu and if I am able to get into the desktop everything is fucked up anyway.

Tl;Dr, you are having issues because you went with the most complicated distros. Run some normal ones like Mint in Virtual Machines, get a feel for the process to install a program – 1) manually, 2) from the “Linux store” (package manager) 3) from GitHub.

Anything else is just asking for a frustration headache

Which inherently makes it so that specific demographics of people will never be able to use it.

You save and shut down, silly.

There’s a lot of good suggestions here.

As someone who uses Linux but doesn’t love it, be prepared to restart from scratch a lot. Keep the OS on a blank drive and just point the OS to your storage drives once it’s up and running.

Otherwise you are going to be losing data every time you break something in the OS, and that is really no fun.

Create a script to send important data records (if you need that for taxes or inventory data etc) as a nightly routine, that way you have a consistent database for any important records.

Then just create a restore point. If it breaks in 2 weeks, then you just relaunch it and know that it’s going to kill itself in 2 weeks. A simple restart to that restore point solves everything.

Sounds 100% functional to me!

Storyboarder is definitely great, although I wouldn’t say it’s geared towards 2D animation. You could use it like a flipbook, but I think it’s more suited towards Storyboard planning.

There’s 2 modes, 2D sketching and 3D modeled posing, the latter of which is far, far faster to plot out scenes than hand drawing each one. Again, that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use it for 2D, just that it’s not inherently designed for that process. Still, it’s a great program that lets you add voiceovers, has multiple text boxes for details, and has a pretty decent selection of art tools.

I once robocopied 16tb of media

ShareX and .7z

I highly recommend Pistol Whip!

Use a LiveBoot one, then you don’t have to!

I like TailsOS, which is an amnesiac system that runs entirely in RAM and boots from a USB hard drive. The goal for the operating system is to be a safe operating system for people who are in compromising situations - from international reporters to survivors of domestic abuse, it is a way to highly reduce your ability to be tracked.

The downsides of amnesiac systems are obvious - without enabling the setting for permanent storage, effectively everything you do on the OS is lost every time. And if you do enable persistent memory, well, that’s not exactly entirely safe if you are caught out.

What I like the OS for though is as someone who is not compromised or in a situation where I need these privacies (despite appreciating them), my usage of it makes it safer for others who are using it (since internet is through Tor), and I feel more comfortable using computers in the wild when needed, since I’m not logging in on the public operating system that will be used by everybody else.

Many people give these projects flack or diminish their values as a “daily driver”, but I think often times forget the important aspects of them. They may not be a daily driver for you or I by nature of our needs, but they are certainly important daily drivers for others. In addition to that, supporting a project that helps people in compromised situations and becoming another node to bounce off of (again, Tor, not inherent to the usage of this OS) is a nice additional benefit.

Tl;DR amnesiac operating systems because they’re simple, straightforward, and make you feel more like whitehat hackerman when you’ve done nothing at all.

It’s a phone service and business communications. I have to use it for work

You people are paying for Windows licenses?

Something like Weylus?

Samsung tablets have this functionality natively, along with drawing tablet connections

Looks interesting, reminds me of a pared down Plexamp

All I know is he’s got Ma Thias craving some socks

Good luck but as someone who is techy, Linux drives me insane every time I use it. Yes, it’s a skill issue. I think that’s sort of the nature of the problem regarding Linux adoption.

I’m capable, a quick learner interested in learning, good at following step by step instructions, and am really good at teaching others once I’ve learned it.

I’ve been on and off Linux for at least 8 years now and I feel like I end up hating it more and more each time I work with it. I will say, all of them are hobby projects of things that I just want, or tried to replace something from Windows by using my server.

I’m sure if it was just basic web browsing it would be fine, but I inevitably want to do something so I look for how to do it, follow a guide or the documentation and inevitably 5 steps in something goes wrong. Like, I genuinely can’t think of a single instance where I’ve been able to follow a step-by-step outside of the Steam Deck and have it actually work the first time.

That aside, usually the amount of networking that has to be done manually is what gets me, bonus points if you are double natted.

Docker has made things better but it’s still a pain in the ass for me. I enjoy working with computers and software but more often than not I do not enjoy my time working with Linux and by the time I finally get something working I am just wishing I hadn’t wasted all my time trying to get it working, and wishing that I didn’t care so much about this. Cause if I didn’t care I could happily live without home assistant and my server. But I do care, so I have to work on it.

It’s genuinely frustrating. Something as simple as Stable Diffusion - literally a git clone command - something I’ve set up a dozen times on Windows installs, just will not work on my server because it decides something is wrong following the install.

This whole time running Linux there have only been 2 things that I rarely have problems with. The first is Plex, since I first installed it on a RasPi using DietPi I’ve had nothing but good, smooth experiences. Once in a while there would be a hiccup but it was straightforward enough. The most difficult Plex has ever been is on my recent server build with an NVIDIA card, just getting hardware transcoding to work (which it at least recognizes the GPU now so I think it is). Oh, and stupid fucking permissions. God I hate permissions.

The other has been my Steam Deck, where I’ve had no issues through and through, from modding to random installs.

Anyway, I’m ranting like this because I’m so frustrated with Linux’s ease of use/access. Technology has gotten so much easier to use that it feels insanely archaic being forced to tell Linux every specific little thing to or not to do. What’s more frustrating is when you are following the documentation and it never mentions what to do if ______ doesn’t work, it just continues on.

So all told… As someone who is confident with technology and familiar with Linux, I just have a hard time believing that someone who can hardly use an iPhone will have an enjoyable experience trying to, say, watch Netflix on Linux. I’d like to believe it, maybe my experiences have me biased.

And before anyone comes at me, I hate and get frustrated with Windows too, but I use it because when I try and do something it works, usually in a quarter of the working time. Surprising considering it’s Windows, but of all the projects I’ve tried to do on both Windows has a much higher success rate. Like almost 100%. Off the top of my head the only thing I couldn’t get working was DizqueTV on a Windows-Plex server (which ended up being why I moved it to Linux). Funny enough, DizqueTV wouldn’t work on my Linux install either because of my ISP.

FOSS takes your time, not your money.

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