I'm a writer, artist, and game developer. Currently working on Unknown Station Echo, a translation-based mystery.
Hey, y'all, November 13 through 19 is Trans Awareness Week, and I'm part of a bundle of indie trans creators over on itch to celebrate! You can get $145 worth of group and solo RPGs, poetry, zines, and a Twine essay by yours truly for 30 bucks, what a steal!
If $30 is a hardship, there's also a $10 version with all the same content. If that's still too much, sharing is much appreciated!
I am trying to resurrect a low-end, older model Windows laptop as a lightweight productivity machine.
What I would be using:
What I'd like is a newb-friendly, lightweight distro with a GUI, that I can set and forget as much as possible. Okay if there's some command line stuff during initial setup, but I don't want to have to deal with it on a regular basis.
But Linux is. daunting. So I'm hoping people have recs for distros I could look into? (If you have a suggestion that is technically not Linux that is fine! I don't really understand what is and isn't Linux. See above re: daunting.)
Any advice or sharing is much appreciated!
edit: Thanks y'all, I'll look into Linux Mint XFCE!
I get that MPEG-DASH is more cost-effective and allows for better streams of high-res video (and there are times when I greatly prefer 1080p to anything else!) but when my internet is struggling to play a 480p video without stuttering every 5 seconds I can't help but feel like the loss of the ability to preload an entire video is a step back technologically. Walking away for a few minutes and then playing a video in its entirety (including the ability to seek backwards without reloading!) was fine, actually
