[–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I control a htpc with an Xbox gamepad. Bazzite I don't even think about updates, it just happens instead of saying "should probably update" and unplugging my nose and keyboard from my other PC. Or leaving mouse and keyboard sit on the floor in front of my tv cabinet.

Most handheld suppliers are shipping windows, replacing it with an immutable system is definitely the way to go. On screen keyboards are play I guess, but even my experience just doing a regular distro on a tablet it was a hassle.

Look, I'm not going into detail on this anymore. But I want to say I'm surprised by how much people are pushing back. "Oh instead of using bazzite, you could setup rsync to do an a/b switch with your server if something goes wrong". (Elsewhere in these comments).

I just didn't think it would be so much for people to accept there are use cases for why people do things differently to them.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago* (11 children)

    Because when I finish my 10 hour shift, get home from my 2 hour commute, to my 6 year old kid crying because she managed to fuck her Minecraft machine up somehow, I don't want to spend my only free half hour that day trying to work or what she did.

    That's not a learning opportunity for her. Even if she had the patience to sit there and watch me try to fix it, she won't r get what I'm doing. And after getting up at 5.30, getting home at 7.30 watch how good I am at not just swearing at the thing instead.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago (38 children)

    A htpc in which you just need to launch media

    A steam Deck like handheld in which you just want your game launcher

    A PC for a kid whom you don't want messing around with system files

    A PC for your technologically inept family members to just use as an email/browser/word processor

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Ikey has a tendency to abandon his projects. Solus was good when he started it, it barely survived a few restructures after he left, but it was quickly getting outpaced by other distros anyway.

    If this one suits you, that's great, and independent community distros can be cool.

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