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Cake day: June 26th, 2023
  • SnailMagnitude@mander.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Tips on running multiple distros together on my laptop?
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    10 months ago

    Why?

    Triple booting is a pita, moreso if you don’t know how to partition a disk. I’d want any laptop encrypted, which adds further complexity to the triple boot.

    If you wanna browse, research, watch videos and tinker just install a distro. If you wanna spend time switching your system off and on again over and over and over again to find out what’s working/broken go for the triple boot.

    Docker could be worth a shot. You can ‘docker pull fedora/arch/debina/whatever’ and can play around with the base systems. Alpine takes up about 6mib so isn’t too resource intensive if you need to nuke it a few hundred times to get up and running.

  • SnailMagnitude@mander.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here
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    11 months ago

    How bad is really bad?

    AntiX is a good choice. Other option is a usb3 drive for each family member so everyone has their own portable AntiX on a stick.

    MX is the related project with a more standard install and could be worth a look, the Fluxbox option should be quite light.

    Each user could have a personal AntiX system on persistent usb3 and each system could have a bare metal MX Linux install. Just see what wins out via natural selection over time.

    LXQT is another option for a full desktop environment that will run on a potato. If family members are mainly just users and you are admin, the base OS may not matter much. They could switch between a potato running Alpine and a good system running Fedora and if they are just logging into LXQT to launch browser, office, email etc the internal system plumbing is not gonna concern them.

  • SnailMagnitude@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what you think about funkwhale?
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    11 months ago

    Found a forum post that explains how to add and follow other libraries, which is nice. The libraries I’d been trying to follow don’t seem to have public share links displayed, the ones in the example work.

    Appreciating the sharing side of FunkWhale. There’s a lot of potential and some good sounding pods out there. It has the basics. It works as a personal or social music pod, pods can interact, subsonic & maybe other activity pub stuff too. Most importantly it has content, lots of it.

    Currently listening to another pod directly from my home pod for the first time, which is nice.

  • SnailMagnitude@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what you think about funkwhale?
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    11 months ago

    Been looking at it a little more over the past month or two.

    There’s a lot of interesting music out there and nice to be able to wander around people’s music collections.

    I’m not sure on how one should navigate Funkwhale land. I have an account on a pod but don’t know how I’m supposed to follow or interact with other pods I have bookmarked, it seems to only mention channels which are a bit useless.

    Perhaps I have just misunderstood Funkwhale but it seems like it could be an amazing federated community for music. As it is I think I need an account for each pod or to just use listen not logged in. It seems more like a replacement for jellyfin/navidrome and the like with some fediverse functionality as opposed to a world on federated instances sharing and collaborating.