I have actually taken to downloading 1080p versions of things I have access to in 4kHDR from Disney and Amazon. Frankly I can not stand HRD/Dolby Vision versions of things. No matter how I adjust my TV they still suffer from that ghastly soap-opera effect. To me having the background bright and in focus flattens the image making everything look like a bad set. It also makes the tiny differences in lighting of digital effects elements more noticeably.

I hate it.

Getting it from my server securely to their TV is the issue.

The Gun is Good.

The Penis is Evil.

ZARDOZ speaks to you.

Unless they are marrying them

Lynx 4 Life!

Your comment is blocked in 5 states now.

“we can train AIs on AI-generated content”

and 20yrs from now polydactylism will be the new human beauty standard

I think more likely answer is that most businesses are cheap and a mediocre image generated by AI is good enough vs paying a human to make a really good one.

I suggest trying Cinnamon and see how it feels. Unless your old notebook has less than 2GB RAM then you will probably be aok. I have run it on some pretty weak machines before and never found XFCE to be noticeably snappier.

you could put it on a thumb drive and drive it over if they live fairly close

or drop it in the mail if they dont.

Sadly I think I threw out my BeOS 5 install CD when I moved last year. For me it was a very neat tool but Linux/KDE was superior.

Also, water causes wetness.

Indeed. Retraining and the extra time using a new tool is a short term loss for what should be a long term gain. The transition will always suck.

87€ does not include case, power supply, or microSD. Realistically close to 120€ to get a working system and for that kind of money yes you can get a newish Celeron powered PC with 8GB RAM and 128GB SSD/NVME.

I am doing conversion from Canadian Dollar so my calculations and what is actually available in Europe might be off a bit. It is totally possible here though.

Slackware(1995?), Yggdrasil, Redhat/Fedora/Mandrake, SuSE, Debian/Ubuntu/Mint

Probably some others I have forgotten, and there was a lot of back and forth at various times but I settled on Debian based because at the time APT was the best package manager. I mostly use Mint or straight Debian now because familiarity makes it the simplest for me after all these years.

not Linux but also Solaris, SunOS, & AIX

I am sure you can, but you will likely get better performance from a mini PC for roughly the same price.

Seriously. I think I installed my first Linux Firmware almost 20yrs ago on a WRT54G.

no.ice.

So this is not running Windows apps on linux, but displaying them on your linux desktop. You still need to run Windows in a VM.

However, once the prompt to upgrade to Windows 11 appears, 99% will click “yes” and

be informed that their computer does not support Win11

and forget about it.