Should be laws to make all battery operated devices be able to be operated without their battery. Laptops can live long lives as media servers, HTPCs, NAS (NASes?) or just be relegated to coding random microcontrollers.

My @linuxmint.com install kept freezing and my @pop-os.bsky.social had horrible screen tearing and laggy video playback, neither install was able to mount an NTFS drive and share it via Samba despite following guides. I went back to W10 in under 48 hours. Old hardware but works perfectly on W10

So if a visual says what I need to say, I will rephrase more briefly and add the visual, and people who want to take time to study the visual will pause the video. Most people watch for entertainment so you can't let explanations get in the way of entertaining flow. Mind you I don't always manage.

On one hand, perfect is the enemy of done, but on the other hand, a high-quality video that jives with the audience will get you like 3 orders of magnitude more views. What I've been trying to do lately is cut the "say" in favor of the "show" when it comes to those decisions 1/2

(great channel by the way)

Great! Let me know when the next mailbag video is!

You are The Defpom now!? @thedefpom.bsky.social

What material is it?

I was pretty excited to have a platform to play with Linux but it just worked like poop, so it was a non-starter

Too late, W10 LTSC went in today, the OC works flawlessly now! And I have until early 2027 to figure out something else

It's a 550ti - but I could totally drop in an old 1060ti - I've just never had to

I'm a big fan of both of your works, either way :)

Also I didn't find said GUI, but tomorrow is a new day

On the other hand, you did a great job on OSHWA's website! I know external validation isn't what you need, but it's kind of all I can offer right now. Hold strong!

@linuxmint.bsky.social was installed with the nouveau driver, which is the correct one and Pop!_os was downloaded with the built-in driver (10xx and older Nvidia) so there really shouldn't be any problems

Not for the faint of heart! Especially during my first foray into Linux

I started with @linuxmint.bsky.social and now on Pop!_os - but I'm not sold on either - I'm watching prime video, and the screen is tearing like CRAZY. I know I have an Nvidia gpu but W10 ran like a champ