I’ve used it in a VM just to mess around. I’d like to install it on an old ThinkPad and try to compile some applications.

My experience has been that LibreOffice will not correctly render my .csv files when they are above a certain size. Not talking about big data here either like a few thousand rows. For this reason I use OnlyOffice instead.

What do you want to self host? To learn or experiment buy a cheap old x86 box. I get mine at goodwill auction. Otherwise desktop is good if you want something that needs more compute and that you’d spin up as needed vs always on.

Pop!_OS runs great on my intel MBP.

I wish I could get over the learning curve with GIMP but tbh my current workflow involves a windows 10 virtual machine for Photoshop. It works for my needs without GPU pass through.

+1 for Brother. Works great printing from Linux.

FreeTube is great for downloading YouTube content to Jellyfin so my daughter can watch it without ads.

I see you

I’ve used NetSurf a bit on low spec machines.

Thanks for the review. I did the first 6 weeks of CS50 to supplement the CS classes I’m taking at community college. Those first 6 lectures and the problem sets really helped me tackle the c++ assignments in my college program. I’m learning Python and use Pandas quite often at my day job for tasks I’d been doing in Excel. I’ve been thinking about watching some CS50P lectures because I know they’ll cover such a broad range of topics.

I agree about skipping the paid certification. I don’t understand the value whatsoever. So much in fact it seems sorta scammy to charge people off the prestige of Harvard and the computer science wizardry when surely those certificate sales have little to do with making CS50 possible.

Neat website. I make sure to bookmark the low tech magazine on all machines core 2 duo and older.