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  • At the same time Linus is making questionable choices at best. Asking ChatGPT for distro advice may be the “normie” thing to do right now (although I’m not too sure about that), but it’s not the smart thing to do and it did lead him down a bad path.

    I mean that’s kinda the point. They’re noobs, they don’t know what’s right from wrong. People who don’t know right from wrong are likely to go down the wrong path.

    IMO Linux’s biggest issue with normal people uptake is choice. Normal people don’t want 7000 options. It also makes diagnosing problems all the more harder.

















  • You can always put them in AP only mode and get a dedicated router running your OS of choice. If your internet speeds suck then anything made in the last 10 years should be plenty. But if you’ve got a gigabit connection and lots of simultaneous connections you may need to find something that’s not bottom of the barrel.

    Good news is that gigabit internet has been relatively common for 10+ years so you can find old high end devices for the same price as old shitty ones. WiFi AC routers are basically worthless at this point so finding a nice one cheap isnt an issue. And if you’re using the newer nicer google ones for WiFi then the fact it’s an old slower standard doesn’t matter.