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    1 year ago

    It’s an interesting hobby if you get into it. There are hundreds of variations when you count things like distributions, desktop environments and so on, but there’s only a few core mainstream “families” where you get down to it. For something like an old Chromebook it’s basically decided for you since there’s only specific variants made for it.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of hardware to even put Linux on. Talking with the users on the other post piqued my curiosity a little. We’ll see. Thanks for clearing some stuff up for me.

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        1 year ago

        Sign up for a digital ocean droplet if you don’t mind spending like 5 a month on an enterprise level server. You can tear it down and rebuild it as many times as you like. You’d be amazed at how many services you can run for yourself on a tiny little amount of resources.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not a “hobby” for millions of engineers like me that make the internet work.

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        1 year ago

        Oh I just mean from the point of view of someone who’s never tried it before. Lots of people arrive at Linux through indirect fields (pc building, self-hosting, gaming etc.) If it somehow turns into a career down the road all the better.