Nice!

Also I love me some fedora, I run bluefin myself.

My friends likewise contact me with computer problems, usually I help them, Windows stuff I still know well enough.

One guy though, he’s been getting more savvy over time. So when he asked me about Windows ten EOL, I was honest with him. I gave him options. I told him about LTSC, and about forcing win11 to run on “older” hardware. And about Linux. And I explained the risks and challenges of each.

I didn’t want to force him because I worried that if he didn’t choose it, then when it got hard, he would blame me.

Since it was his secondary computer, and it only runs web, text docs, and Minecraft… He chose to learn Linux. So far he’s only ran into a couple issues, one of which was his display not scaling correctly because the default and available resolutions were too high. And when set to the correct resolution, things didn’t fit on the screen.

Well it was only half Linux’ fault, while it shouldn’t have given him 4k options when he didn’t have the ability to use it, he shouldn’t have been using a 720p TV as a monitor. We had a chuckle, and he found a better monitor with a modern resolution, and he’s been happy for months now. No questions asked to me, either it’s working or he’s solving his own problems.

I am an avid Linux user and sharer of ISOs, never had a lick of trouble on 30/10.

10/1.5 was tough but doable.

1.5/300k was impossible.

Funny how perspective changes things.

Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up. DSL, for 8 people.

We had that until… 2014? 2016? Then we got 10/1.5, mbps, down/up respectively.

We had that until 2022 ish, when we got 30/10. And I started self hosting with ease, plenty of bandwidth for myself and my immediate family’s needs.

Only last year, 2025, did we finally strike gold and get access to fiber. 8000/8000 available, but it’s spendy.

I’m used to living with significantly less, so I opted for the lowest tier, 300/300.

I feel like I’m legitimately living in the future right now, so fast.

I feel for everyone who is stuck with slow Internet. But it’s all perspective. And from my perspective, 20 up is plenty for most things your average person wants to do. More is always better, obviously. But even then, you don’t need gargantuan pipes to self host.

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need, though obviously, again, more is always better 🤷‍♂️

Way more than dozens, certainly

Thanks! Glad I made a good choice.

Now that you mention it, one of my favorite YouTubers, Usagi Electric, recently switched to Linux, and had to find a new video editor. I believe he’s using davinci as well.

But I agree, they’re all a little terrible. But they’re doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Kdenlive did crash in me once, and I hadn’t saved in a long time. But I gave it a pass because of the aforementioned heavy lifting, and also it let me “recover” my project, and dropped me back exactly where I was, I lost maybe one most-recent action. You love to see it.

That was just giving context to my limited experience with video editors.

If you read further you’ll see I talk about using CS6, and finally, most recently, kdenlive.

I’ve used random Linux based video editors in the past, like 15-17 years ago. They were… Not great.

Later, I did a handful of projects with premier pro CS6, really liked it.

It’s been almost a decade since I’ve done any video editing, until literally a few hours ago when I needed to make a simple wedding video for my friend. Cut together a couple camera angles, some PiP, do some color correction, a couple fades and one linear swipe transition.

I’m running Bluefin, so I went the path of least resistance, and just checked the flatpack catalog for the highest rated and most downloaded video editor.

That was kdenlive. I found it to be fairly user friendly, and powerful enough for my needs. The GUI reminds me of CS6, though it’s been awhile since I used it, so that may be less true than I’m remembering.

Hardware acceleration for encoding didn’t work on my AMD 7840U, but… I didn’t try very hard. Maybe there’s a workaround, and it may not even be the programs fault.

Take my recommendation with a grain of salt, because again, this isn’t my world, and I did zero research haha. Kind of funny that this post is the first one I stumble across after finishing that project.

Exactly this.

I am likewise a long time Debian user, different flavors, on and off. Played with Arch a little. Never touched fedora.

Installed Bluefin on my main laptop almost a year ago, haven’t looked back. The stability is exactly what I was looking for. It just works, and protects me from myself.

But still my proxmox is full of mostly Debian servers, I still value a traditional install.

But you better believe that when my buddy asked for help with Windows 10 EOL, one of the options I gave him was Linux. He was curious, we went over pros and cons, now he’s running Bluefin too.

There’s a sign by my house, on a road I need to turn right on at about 420 every day, that says no right-on-red turns between 730am to 430pm on school days.

It’s frustrating, because it doesn’t seem like it’s actually protecting children for 9 hours a day

While I disagree with you, I appreciate your take. And the windedness is just right, if not short winded, for this thread.

I do like Sisko, I should rewatch ds9. I just grew up watching TNG so it’s burned into my brain, love it

I don’t know what it says about me that I already knew what a hurdy gurdy was lol

I agree wholeheartedly. I like the original characters enough, they fill their purpose. I’m a little sad when the changeover happens, but quickly fall in love with the new ones. A very well done show, infinitely re-watchable, in my family’s opinion. We grew up watching it, and we all rewatch it every other year or so.

In fact, I’m due for a rewatch right about now.

To prepare that perfectly popped popcorn, purportedly.

That’s crazy to me. I’m on a phone too, and it’s… Just garbage content.

Technologically speaking it’s amazing! Very close to real. If it was on in the background at a bar or something I probably wouldn’t clock it.

But watching it? With my eyes? Immediately obvious.

I wonder why some people can’t see it? Do you notice other AI stuff? Like even a lot of animated pictures and memes are AI now, as I scroll by I’m like yep, there’s more. And I’m sure I’m not seeing it all, and I’m getting fooled by some of it, but all the time I’m seeing it.

Do you have a technical background? An artistic one?

I just like tech, never been one for art.

Yeah I heard a guy use McDonald’s in an illustration the other day, how people see the golden arches and everyone recognizes it, knows what to expect. The same food all over the country, similar food around the world. And it’s fast and cheap.

And I’m like… Right… Maybe once upon a time…

The tree exploded weird, the mixer was vibrating weird, the guy falling on the ice flopped weird, I could go on. It was weird after weird clips stacked on each other

Yep. Annoying. A few weeks ago I didn’t realize all of this was starting, I wanted another 16gb ddr4 for a computer I was converting into a server.

Was annoying to discover the price increase for seemingly no reason.

Ah yes winmodems, what garbage. That’s dumb. I probably should’ve dug deeper when I got it. Honestly I hate printers. I asked the printer community on Reddit to recommend me a cheap printer that used cheap toner. I gave them my requirements and they even found a Craigslist listing for me. I think I’m only in 20 or 40 bucks, can’t remember, but I guess I can’t complain too hard.

Can you get modern laser printers that work that way?

I recently tried setting up my hp p1102w to print from openwrt using p910nd, but can’t because it’s a “host based” printer, whatever that means.

Even in cups, it needs a special driver to get it to behave. Doesn’t even work out of the box on my Fedora install.

I bought it a couple years ago, second hand, because the toner is cheap, and if I don’t update the firmware, I can keep using aftermarket toner.

It has Wi-Fi, but sometimes it refuses to print from Linux or my phone, just randomly. Always works on Windows though 🤦‍♂️

My plan is to kill the Wi-Fi because I don’t trust it being so out of date anymore, and either plug it into my server or slap a rpi on the back with cups on the network. But it’s proving to be a painful experience.

Atlantis was great.

Universe was amazing, and I’m still mad that they killed it on such a massive cliffhanger. Made me gunshy to this day, I don’t like watching shows until they’ve concluded. I will, but I don’t like it. Much rather find something that’s already wrapped up.