For me, arm has already “won” this debacle – convenience > performance all day errday.

tl;dr:

dnf list installed > $anydir/meow

On new computer, with fedora installed and the meow file;

dnf install $(cat $anydir/meow)

You are in an environment where the downvote button exists as a self-validation/relief method rather than flagging off-topic/unrelated/low-effort/etc content as “bad”.

The majority are simpletons which (also) love simple stuff. That’s why.

One word:

Recall.

Orange pi zero 3 is arm-based and can be really viable for daily usage if you are into tinkering.

In a serious tone:

Attempt to do a minimal yet optimized install instead of a standard one while making it fully functional.

I use both nano and vim, so eh

I’m typing this on my rpi 4 w/ 2GiB (with three tabs open on my brave browser w/ also a youtube video playing on the background) and its good enough as is for daily tasks.

Is it possible to use Linux without the command line? Yes. Should you do it? Definitely not.

A contrarian take, but nextdns. It may not block youtube ads, but eeeh it works really well for most cases.

Yes! This is more like it. Thank you.

Now to figure out a package that acquires the latest news out of a rss link and prints it in the cli.

Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro?

No. Gaming distro is a “regular” distro preconfigured for gaming.

Thank you for your explanation, but what I had in mind “in depth” was to “store” the latest news acquired from a rss link into a variable (say, $NEWS), and then display it all way down with -vf drawtext=text="''$NEWS':fontsize=etc:other:attributes" followed by a scroll effect (to the left)… which I’m pretty sure its possible, but I don’t know which package is appropriate for the former.

ZorinOS > Ubuntu > Debian and then Arch. I even tried Alpine linux recently but got “filtered” by the lack of gpu packages. Looks like I need to get my “googling” improved a bit.

“I don’t value my time. I value my braincells.”

– Me, every time someone says the “…value your time” argument.

In a nutshell,

Zorin > Ubuntu > Debian > Arch, while (always) pestering google about trivial stuff, “How do I install something on Linux?” – “Oh look! A package manager! Which package manager is the best?” – “Distros have their specific packages? Cool!”, etc.

Just tell him, “Give Linux another shot when you are bored.”.

t. Used to be a Windows tryhard w/ baby duck syndrome, told myself exactly this. Took me a while, but I became a penguin a couple years after.

Quite a controversial take, but I think dietpi is a very solid choice, even for x86 PCs.

Download Ubuntu 24.04

Found the Windows poser.