Install a Linux Distro. Connect to external monitor, plug power into wall.
Use it for a dedicated torrenting machine or use it as a test machine for whatever you like. If you kill it, whatever.
Otherwise I would just take that SSD out and recycle the machine.
I use a Medium theme on my desktop. It’s not dark or light. It really works for me.
I found it here, https://github.com/blue-mood/blue-mood-kde-color-scheme
I was actually looking for a Med-Dark charcoal theme and decided to try this first. I’ve used it for years now.
I highly recommend Kubuntu. I don’t use any snaps though. And I always install the LTS version. Been using it for over a dozen years.
I really liked Mint at the time, but only the KDE version, and would never have left if they hadn’t stopped supporting it. They had great nVidia support. I no longer have nVidia on any of my computers because it’s just annoying to fight with that mess.
Plus Linux as a whole has better driver support than it used to.
In 2007 I tried Ubuntu and it was weird, then again in 2008, no! In 2009 I found Mint and was really happy, until they stopped supporting KDE. Then I tried a ton of distros, Xfce, no. Lxde, no. open suse, no. fedora, no, lots of others, no. I finally found Kubuntu and I have been on it ever since. Even tested Neon lately but hated it.
Kubuntu does what I want it to do.
Linux always seems scary at first, but once you learn enough, it’s super easy.
McAfee Antivirus.
Got so tired of the software slowing down the computer and freaking out over non-virus programs. Also the price to renew was stupid.
No need for AV running 24/7 on Linux.
After using a few different distros over a couple of years I decided to never go back to Windows (and I detest Apple so that will never be an option), and I settled on Kubuntu.
So. Damn. Happy.
The top secret classified, for your eyes only papers will finally be revealed and we will find out that…
we have all been using BETAMAX this whole time, not Linux. O_o
I use Open Sans for System and in LibreOffice https://www.opensans.com/ .
And these are good resources as well, https://fontlibrary.org/
100% agreed. I personally hate the Appleverse, so Gnome just irks my gears.
KDE Nation, we are armed with Plasma!!!
Sweetie, I am very familiar with lotz & lotz of nix.
Refer to my previous post for Nordic jokez.
Takk skal du ha.
We have no Baloo on this rig.
And Thunar was a thunder god, not a king.
Come to the dark side, KDE has Dolphin and it swims faster than any gnome could.
Libraries do pay for licensing of all MS software, as well as many other databases.
And any IT person working in a library usually is managing a Unix server so Linux is not something they are unfamiliar with, they even use linux servers.
Server
Portal
Host
Those would be my suggestions.
This is exactly what I did. Download a bunch of iso images and use a USB thumb drive or burn them to disc.
If using thumb drives, make sure you delete all hidden files when burning a different Distro to it so it’s clean.
I would suggest going to https://distrowatch.com/ to read about the types of OS on offer.
Think of it as,
Linux is a car,
Distros (Distributions) are the manufacturer (Toyota, Ford, Kia, Audi) and
the DE (Desktop Environment) is the model line (Prius, F150, Sorento, A6).
You need to choose a Distro and a DE.
Distros to check out, Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Pop!_OS, Fedora, OpenSUSE. This will give you a variety to test a “live disc”, no need to install right now.
DE’s to test, KDE, Gnome, Mate, Unity, Cinnamon.
Most Distros are completely re-installed 2x a year with April and September being the release months.
You can find LTS (Long Term Support) versions of many Distros. These are installed once and updated regularly for 3-5 years.
And lastly there are Rolling Distros that are installed and updated in perpetuity.
I personally settled on Kubuntu LTS. It’s a KDE (Plasma desktop). It’s very easy to customize when you get a little experience, but not necessary to customize at all. I’ve been using this for over 12+ years.
Play around with some Distros, take some notes on what you like. You can dual install with Windows if you want/need to.
And remember, Live discs (USB) are just a testing ground, changing settings will not save if you test the same Distro again.
Always choose the “Try” or “Live” option in the boot menu and it won’t mess up your computer.
And backup your current data before doing any of this. Better safe than sorry.
I completely agree.
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Google & Microsoft are famous for copying what all the other companies are doing and then letting it all die.
Hello from Zune land.
“Please click on all the crosswalks before you can enter this site”
This is why people pirate things.
I was using Ktorrent but the magnet links were hit and miss so I moved to qBittorrent. I really liked Ktorrent.
[laughs in Linux]