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What Are Some Things You Regret Buying or Bought but Never Used? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see posts talking about good BIFL items but I don't hear much about the other side of products that are bad or products you bought but don't even use.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I bought a new netbook last year to watch stuff on as my old one from like 10 years ago finally fell apart.

I fucking hate the new Windows so much and I'm not techy enough to change the operating system to something better, so I barely use it as watching stuff on my phone is easier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

You're probably selling yourself short on the tech front and over-estimating the difficulty of installing something new. If you wanted to install something like Linux Mint or Fedora, the most complicated step would likely involve making a bootable thumbdrive to load it from. You could check that all your hardware works as intended (ie, can you connect to wifi, does sound play properly, can you watch a video on youtube, etc) without actually modifying your base OS, and if it does, the installations mostly hold your hand and you can get a perfectly sane setup just sticking to the defaults for most things and clicking next. There are plenty of options out there where you don't need to be a command-line wizard to have a perfectly usable system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Someone mentioned turning a PC into a Chromebook above and it's not a bad idea. You can probably install Android apps on it for streaming services too. All you need is a flash drive. I probably wouldn't mess with it though if it's your only device if you aren't that tech savvy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you're interested, Linux Mint Debian Edition is pretty easy to setup and use.

https://youtu.be/b0EBueufP0o

I recommend using the debian edition image and not the ubuntu version.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/b0EBueufP0o

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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