namelessWrench

A Jeb With No Name

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The Only Rotten Dollhart Webring

A hideous fruit, disgracing itself.

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Alright, question for the nerds who are smarter than me

So if someone wanted to use an old crappy laptop as a media box, what would the best linux distro be?

All I need it to do is read an external hard drive, run VLC to play DVDs and video files, and connect to TV via HDMI.

Note: This laptop is absolute trash. It runs like shit and even with Ubuntu it struggles. It loads slowly and while playing stuff on VLC it has lots of screen tearing and stuttering while it tries to load from the USB drive. So I need the most barebones stuff possible.

AnEvilHerbivore
@AnEvilHerbivore

I have been deep in the Linux mines all morning

I worked so hard to get one distro working that was ALMOST perfect. It ran perfectly, booted quickly, and there were no problems playing my test file...but then it couldn't do the 2 things I actually needed it to do (couldn't mirror the display to my TV, couldn't read from my external hard drive for video files).

I am disheartened, but pressing on with the next distro.

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LotteMakesStuff
@LotteMakesStuff

Are YOU a game developer that uses Unity? Congrats they just changed their business relationship with you and there’s nothing you can do!

Effective January 1, 2024, we will introduce a new Unity Runtime Fee that’s based on game installs. We will also add cloud-based asset storage, Unity DevOps tools, and AI at runtime at no extra cost to Unity subscription plans this November.

It’s gone from having INCREDIBLY simple just pay for a yearly software licence to that, plus a very complicated sliding scale payment based on installs. Installs. Not sales or revenue but installs.

Just wait till next year when some game developer accidentally annoys their community with a “bad update” or something and their haters mass install, run delete thousands of times to rack up a massive invoice. This is so stupid. I’m done

LotteMakesStuff
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“Unity Create senior vice president and general manager Marc Whitten told Game Developer the company is seeking to "better balance the value exchange" between Unity and developers.”

Cool I’m glad they decided they deserve more “value” from us that’s so nice for them