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Little music player is about 20kb
Little music player is about 20kb
If you stick with it you can type way faster than most other keyboards. Plus it’s fun to use
What? Vanilla os. Is very different than just OS2. Also OS 2 is how old now? I doubt many people even make that coorelation
Gnome has the best touch gesture support. It really is great. Sadly the osk for gnome kinda sucks major league ass. Pretty much every de has issues with touch. But gnome seems to have the least issues
Are you planning on using them as a pos? I’m not sure if an open pos os exists
https://github.com/RetroMusicPlayer/Paisa paisa is pretty cool. I use it to manage my money and I’ve been liking it pretty well
https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ this has been my favorite for a while. It keeps the retro sort of look while still being actually ledgible
Okay so I am typing as someone who has helped local businesses set up computer systems. Nothing big just one or two person operations. Getting them computers, downloading their software, and making sure they understand how to keep up to date.
I would recommend you use what you are comfortable with at first. Use Windows, get your business in a comfortable position to experiment. And then I would say try Linux out.
I imagine you will need to keep up to date with invoices and the such and you will need to figure out what software you are going to use that. You could always just be basic and use excel sheets but most businesses are using Quick-books or something similar. And a lot of invoicing software does not work on Linux. I would say invoice-ninja is probably the most popular invoicing software on Linux so that would probably get you the best support. This is usually the point people tell me they will stick with windows.
But if you are able to get past that and maybe learn one of those invoicing software applications then I would say you would have next to 0 issues. As you are in a business environment pick something reliable. Debian, Ubuntu LTS, or RHEL. I would test them all in a vm and see what you like best.
Now word documents may cause issues. Maybe. I find libre office works for me 95% of the time. But I don’t do anything very fancy with it. I write essays and maybe every now and then I will include a graph. I would test libre office on windows and see how that works for you. Only office is also an option but I have 0 experience with it.
Also I find that linux is seriously lacking in ways to manage pdfs. At this point I use my browsers built in pdf reader more than any sort of linux app. Digital signing has always been a pain in the ass and the pdf reader I have the best luck out of is Zathura which is a cli application which is definitely not new-user friendly. But this isn’t really an issue it’s just me nitpicking. You can manage pdfs on linux just as well as windows it just may not be as user friendly some times.
You mentioned you are worried about some video formats not working on linux. May I ask what sort of video formats those are. I find vlc or mpv to have great support for most if not all video formats.
My recommendation would be to use linux. I love it. But this is a new business. Use what works for you as much as possible. Get to the point where you have the funds and free time to experiment and try linux. Poke around with some open source apps in windows and see how they work. Invoice-Ninja and libre office both have windows versions.
I wish you luck with your endeavors and I hope my comment has helped somewhat
edit: spelling and punctuation
Nearly everday I see a post with over 1000 upvotes. For such a niche platform I would say it is very populated and active. I enjoy the population lemmy is at. I can recognize posters on lemmy. It reminds me of reddit when it was first getting popular
I have been using g4 music and it works amazing and looks really nice on gnome https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.neithern.g4music
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/dev.hemanths.paisa paisa works great for me. It’s very simple however
Holee shit. How have I not heard of this. Fuck linus. This is actually awful
https://mrchromebox.tech/ you can also install linux with coreboot. Works great on mine
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https://www.startpage.com/ it’s pretty much google search without tracking
I’ll have to check when I get off work. I never have any errors when copying my id so I am not sure why they wouldn’t be there but I will check
Ah shieet. I just have jellyfin running with a port open on my router and everyone on here is saying that’s a bad idea and now I’m wanting to redo my whole jellyfin setup
Wahhhh wahhhhh. That’s you