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What was a friction or annoyance plaguing you that you finally resolved recently? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have two

figured out how to reformat an old hard drive that i needed the space to store new shows I wantef to have and was able to make room for so much stuff. It took way to long for me to sit down focused and walk thru a 5 minute youtube video explaining it and it paid off. I knew that was the solution all the while, just took a long time to buckle down and do it. I need to get more in that habit
Couldnt remember debit pin and its annoyed me for a long time when i needed to withdraw cash various times. Found a forum post saying the exact process in the banks app and had it sorted out in less than a minute. Itd been like 3 months I put up with that and its just not an issue anymore

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So yeah, moving up to a faster, more capable system

windows 11 is not a faster, more capable system but one with even more bloat, including more user hostile bloat. the single advantage of it is that it still gets updates, but there are many other solutions to that.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bien sûr!
However, and TBC-- I was referring to the actual hardware when I said "system."

Indeed, I greatly look forward to upgrading this shady OS to some manner of Linux, especially once things settle down here. (any 'flavor' you particularly recommend?)

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

fedora workstation, the KDE edition. customizable if needed, but not in the way. automatic updates in a way that almost takes care of itself, in a more stable way that's not yet adopted by most distros. that, or opensuse leap. I think their recently released 16.0 also allows this update mechanism, but haven't tested it yet.
both have usa ties though: fedora is redhat, which is IBM, and suse is german but opensuse relies on american servers, including for building software. if that's a dealbreaker, try linux mint, it's based on debian, apparently it's user friendly too, and I don't understand its legal status but as I understand it's not anchored to a business in a country.

depending on what programs you use, maybe keep a w10 LTSC in dualboot. get it from massgrave.dev, they also have an activator tool. instead of dualboot a virtual machine could be fine too, oracle is considered a swear word here but their open source virtualbox is the most user friendly vm manager, with others you would need to edit text config files.

if you want to use hardware accelerated video codecs on AMD graphics on fedora or suse, you will need to use the flatpak versions of video software. It's not AMD's fault, but a legal fuckery that most distros don't want to risk. It's not a huge problem because all video formats are still playable, but it consumes more cpu capacity and power.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank you so much!

I'm way over my head on all that, but have bookmarked your comment and created a reminder for myself. The new system is indeed AMD, btw.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

The new system is indeed AMD, btw.

good choice!