Don’t follow the “official” instructions as that’s not the best practice. Install the VScode flatpak or better yet use VScodium

It requires a basic understanding just like Ubuntu

Make sure you use the official website, lubuntu.me

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Debian over Ubuntu as Ubuntu isn’t all that user focused these days

This is kind of long…

1. Is wrong. Do not do it as it will cause so many issues and be the cause of some hair loss

It needs updates constantly. I’m not sure why you would recommend it to someone in search of Windows 98

Average Lemmy[.]ml user

Don’t download software from some random website.

Instead, use your package manager to install it or use something that ships with it. I would recommend Debian as its very stable and the installer gives you the option to install LXDE if you so choose. (Side note: LXDE isn’t well maintained) You likely will want to enable flatpaks for newer application support but that is pretty easy to do. Just go to flathub.org and choose how to install and then Debian

It works fine for me

That probably won’t work well

It should as that’s a basic feature. It probably is just for mpeg2 at lower resolutions

Anything that requires GPU decoding will be choppy as it doesn’t support modern codex. However, assuming graphics acceleration working you should be able to browse the internet. Just make sure you have a SSD and some swap.

I tried setting up luks on one of these devices and it did work but the IO performance was slow due to the lack of CPU acceleration for modern cryptography. (That’s the theme of older devices)

Use Debian

Let me guess, Broadcom

Back in my day Broadcom was the company that causes non stop problems

Dear Microsoft support,

We use an Alexa which I have connected to our nieghboring company’s guest wifi. When our firewall goes down, I have a raspberry pi that is programmed to play a recording of my voice that says “Alexa Turn Off The Christmas Tree” (i can’t figure out how to reprogram the smart plug.) and then 5 minutes later another recording that says “Alexa turn on the christmas tree.” This is has worked very well for us so far.

You can build a custom uBlue image? Could that be used for a server?

alias iamroot='sudo whoami'

There is nothing stopping you from doing so