I am just very curious what peoples stories are. And if you are not using Linux what is holding you back?

No judgement of any kind, just pure curiosity.

  • narshee@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It was a gradual process. It somehow started with Raspberry Pis because there were some laying around and I wanted to use them as a server for something. Later privacy and my increasing repulsion for windows played a role. It also helped that I stopped having friends playing online games with friends, very convinient, so I had not to use windows for that either. Now I just love using it. I can do whatever I want and the system does only what I want. And foss is great.

    @MouseWithBeer you didn’t tell us your story

    • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I was typing it up and then work called and had to go AFK for a bit. I posed it now :)

      Thank you for sharing yours! Pis are great little things.

      • narshee@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I had not so great experiences with Pis. They would drop USB devices every few dozen hours. Might be fixed with updates or newer Pis

      • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        What do you guys do with your PIs? I almost got one to use as a pihole server but thought it’d be a waste of money if that’s all I’m gonna do with it (running standalone piholes on my desktop and laptop now). Still interested if there’s anything I can use them for. 😅

        • narshee@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I used them for pihole & unbound, qbittorrent, local http server and kiwix. I would still use one because they use like 5W max, but I had issues and running all these things on bare-metal is a pain. Now I run all my stuff (now adguard instead of pihole) on a small computer < 20W in proxmox. It sadly is totally worth using more power for this.

        • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I just used it for a project for college. I wanna put a pihole on it as well (mainly for phone), just never got around to it years later. I gave my spare to my boyfriend tho and he is using it as a media server.

        • CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I use one as a Pi-hole server. It is amazing realizing how many ads are on the internet now. Especially good for blocking for Android.

          Husband uses a Pi for his model rockets - getting telemetry data. We have previously used it as a microcontroller for a homebrew homebrewing cooler.

          • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah. Ads are terrible now. I’m glad for stuff like ublock and pihole. The net would be painful to browse without them.

            Model rockets sounds awesome, ngl. I don’t think I have the brainpower for that hobby, though. Lmao.