I see posts talking about good BIFL items but I don’t hear much about the other side of products that are bad or products you bought but don’t even use.

  • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
    4·
    10 months ago

    I bought a new netbook last year to watch stuff on as my old one from like 10 years ago finally fell apart.

    I fucking hate the new Windows so much and I’m not techy enough to change the operating system to something better, so I barely use it as watching stuff on my phone is easier.

    • shikitohno@kbin.social
      4·
      10 months ago

      You’re probably selling yourself short on the tech front and over-estimating the difficulty of installing something new. If you wanted to install something like Linux Mint or Fedora, the most complicated step would likely involve making a bootable thumbdrive to load it from. You could check that all your hardware works as intended (ie, can you connect to wifi, does sound play properly, can you watch a video on youtube, etc) without actually modifying your base OS, and if it does, the installations mostly hold your hand and you can get a perfectly sane setup just sticking to the defaults for most things and clicking next. There are plenty of options out there where you don’t need to be a command-line wizard to have a perfectly usable system.

    • IMongoose@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Someone mentioned turning a PC into a Chromebook above and it’s not a bad idea. You can probably install Android apps on it for streaming services too. All you need is a flash drive. I probably wouldn’t mess with it though if it’s your only device if you aren’t that tech savvy.