What Are Some Things You Regret Buying or Bought but Never Used?
What Are Some Things You Regret Buying or Bought but Never Used?
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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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.
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.
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.
If you're interested, Linux Mint Debian Edition is pretty easy to setup and use.
I recommend using the debian edition image and not the ubuntu version.
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