Disonantezko

joined 1 year ago
[–] Disonantezko 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Even at 160kbps, maybe 1/1.000.000 people can recognice a FLAC vs MP3 trying 10 times (continuous) using expensive headphones and players, 320kbps is overkill, I prefer a FLAC and just encode to Opus.

Right now Opus is better and can be played in web browsers, smartphones, YouTube and Netflix are using that for awhile.

[–] Disonantezko 2 points 6 days ago

Wayland and Cosmic are not there yet for beginners, more like beta, watch videos from Brodie Robertson, I'll wait half year at least to try that for newbies.

[–] Disonantezko 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But web browsers and video players are going to be painful with any distro.

[–] Disonantezko 7 points 1 week ago

This!

Even 4GB RAM is low for web browsers and they're gonna struggle, A LOT, even with just one tab open, is going to be painfully slow to not want to use it anymore.

Old laptops like this, don't have hardware video decoders for YouTube or any video in AVC or HEVC códecs that is used everywhere today.

You can use Gnumeric for spreadsheets and Abiword for docs if Libreoffice is too slow.

[–] Disonantezko 3 points 1 week ago
  • SliTaz is fun to play and very small.
  • Puppy Linux is very capable and there are Debian variants.
[–] Disonantezko 2 points 1 week ago

Bad idea, they struggle with YouTube or any video because they don't have hardware decoders for AVC/HEVC.

Maybe can decode by software, something easy on CPU (MPEG1 maybe), and the conversion is done by other machine.

Maybe audio?

Reference: I have one of those Atom netbooks.

[–] Disonantezko 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

EFI didn't work for me, maybe I need LILO

[–] Disonantezko 1 points 2 months ago

Not so obscure, just 50mb and very functional, in between tiny core and puppy.

[–] Disonantezko 1 points 2 months ago

Not really obscure

[–] Disonantezko 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
  1. LTSC + WSL (Better than VM)
  2. Dual Boot
  3. Linux only
[–] Disonantezko 7 points 3 months ago

Or Win10 IoT LTSC till 2032

[–] Disonantezko 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To me Adobe has very bad UI, I did try to use it, and first time was awful. Freehand was a lot more intuitive, but when Macromedia was bought, was killed.

I get it, that a lot of people did learn to use Adobe UI, and of course they want the same because they're used to, but doesn't make it better.

Affinity is more friendlier than PS to me.

I'm not saying that GIMP UI is perfect or good, but right now, to my casual use case, is not bad. Obviously can be better, and get some ideas from other UIs.

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