Notices by Sorro 🐍 (hi_im_sorro@mastodon.social)

@Gargron Yes and no. Facebook and Instagram? Deleted my account around 2 years ago. Whatsapp? Would, but it's what 99% of people in my country use for communication. I plan to install Signal and see if I can get a few people to move over, but I'll most likely still need to keep whatsapp

@nixCraft a domain is a nintendo console, a website is the mario game you play on it

@nixCraft mine is 400 x 240 and 320 x 240

you can see the pixels but it's such a mood for gaming and does wonders to the fps in the 268 MHz GPU it has

@nixCraft I'd say windows would be a bigger surprise

@itsfoss basically a smartphone but removing all the senseless restrictions imposed by apple and google and running real linux

i love it

@itsfoss i feel like that video will be true for many people who switch this year by adding one word: "i do not (want) recall"

my specific case was that windows 10 was running awfully slow because it was running on a HDD (even if the processor was a decent 2 ghz quad-core), windows 11 was unsupported and then I heard linux has better performance on games and I thought the steam deck's desktop mode looked nice, so I gave it a try and... well, here we are now, no windows in any machine I use

@itsfoss on desktop, stability above all

on laptop, a better balance between stability and performance would be sweet, mostly for the battery life

@itsfoss this is your first post about fedora since i follow your account, and I decided to give a try to that distro for the first time and installed it on my laptop around 3 or 4 hours before your post

what an interesting coincidence

@itsfoss On a phone, it might not be very comfortable to use

On the other hand, linux on a tablet + wireless keyboard could work well as a laptop

And seeing how the best value-price of productivity devices is usually on tablets, going as low as 150€ for a new samsung tablet with usable enough RAM and CPU and quite good battery, this could add the usefulness value that tablets were missing

Honestly, ever since android 12L, Google's priority seems to have become making tablets very appealing

@itsfoss allowing me to install the newest version of almost any distro in a 2010 netbook without any workarounds and still be fairly usable for some simple stuff

@itsfoss my first experience was with mint, so pretty good except when I wanted to download something from mint's software center: confusing why a system package and a flatpak took such different amounts of storage for the same program and having some libraries and system components mixed around in there felt incredibly confusing

other than that, using the system was as easy as windows, customizing the cinnamon desktop was very easy, downloading debs and appimages was easy too. No problems

@nixCraft cant wait to use that combined with valve's rumored ARM port of steam to finally play pc games on a tablet

@itsfoss "edge"

@itsfoss Zorin: got tired of the gnome desktop
Kubuntu: got tired if snaps in apt
Debian: A slightly newer kernel would be nice, but the stability makes me able to use my PC without any problems (KDE Desktop)
Mint: it just works, probably the only distro I've ever used with the right balance between stability, new kernels easy to customize and zero need for the terminal (other than when I want to use it)
Arch: Did a successfull install the 4th attempt... erased the partition later :roundboi:

@itsfoss I've actually been using it for nearly a year! It sure helps to have a persistent notification that makes me aware that I've been using the phone for a little too long

Only problem I had with it is that one day it changed from going back to 0 minutes at midday instead of midnight and it has stayed that way for half a year. But it's still 24 hours, so no big deal