Futo gave them a micro-grant this month

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TunerStudio MS is a software that works on Linux that let’s you tune your Mega Squirt, which is an open source ECU for cars.

If you have an old Rover V8 14CUX engine you can use RoverGauge on Linux to see some basic engine diagnostics.

Kinoite is great. The atomic version of Fedora KDE.

And it’s an official flatpak! I’ve been waiting for anything better than that portable junk before.

Maybe check the hash is correct. I’ve downloaded Mint from their various official mirror sites and have gotten one that had an incorrect hash, which caused issues.

I use Mint because I use lots of small project software that tends to only have packages for Debian/Ubuntu. Mint also works very well with an NVIDIA card. I’ve tried other distros but they fail to work well with nvidia.

When I get a new AMD laptop I want to try Vanilla OS as apparently it can use any package format but is also immutable which I like. I just hope they have the KDE Plasma edition out by then because I really don’t enjoy Gnome

Batocera is nice too. It’s half an emulation console and half Kodi. You can tell it to launch Kodi as default too. Whereas LibreElec is only Kodi with a limited gaming ability

Be prepared for your router to not work until you figure out how to set stuff up. So hopefully this isn’t your only router. I converted a router to OpenWRT and my knowledge of networking was super basic. It was very confusing but I did get it working in a few days. However, I couldn’t get some things working like a VPN or updating without wiping all my settings. OpenWRT is router firmware, not NAS software. You’ll need to run something like CasaOS, OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, etc for that.

This website is a great starting point for router configurations: https://routersecurity.org/#StartHere

I like Bleachbit but I’ll check this out

I find Polychromatic to be a great UI for OpenRazer

Thank you. That’s incredibly insightful. When I get the cash I’ll setup a PiHole

Fair

That’s a good point

Why would someone pick PiHole over say a customized NextDNS on your router?

This is really neat. I’ll be trying it out for sure

Glad to hear you’re on Linux, living a more sovereign life and having an easy time with it. Mint does indeed work very well for me too. I put Mint XFCE on a ~2015 laptop that Windows was bloating down to dysfunctional. Now it works reasonably well.

You’ll hear other people say Linux works well until it doesn’t. Well so does Windows. It has many issues too that people tend to not mention. Don’t get discouraged by those people. Most of the time Linux is totally fine for normal users, it’s people trying to do abnormal things that then causes issues.

Use a fork of Firefox that doesn’t do that. For example, Ironfox

That’s exactly right

Don’t forget UBlock Origin and being smart on the web and install programs through the software center