My first foray into Linux was something like twenty years ago, I ran Linux Mint briefly and happily, but I screwed something up trying to get flash videos to have sound and kind of gave up and went back to windows.
Flash forward, I got my desktop and my husband’s laptop set up with Mint now, and I can’t believe how easy it was. Everything has been working excellently, and the laptop is getting more attention than its had in years. The software manager is amazing, I got set up with steam and my daw (reaper) in no time. So far I haven’t run into anything I’ve tried to do that I couldn’t do with minimal elbow grease.
Thanks for being so passionate about Linux gang, I don’t know that I would have converted nearly so quickly if I wasn’t exposed to it here. Y’all are cool as hell.
The SD card didn’t abruptly die or anything like that, NCP kind of ground to a halt following automatic maintenance. I couldn’t get it to cooperate, so I just decided to take it offline.
didn’t have anything important on there, was just using it as a test.
That said, I have heard of particularly problematic SD card models that are known to fail with the pi5.
Try with an ssd next time, and thank me later. There are so many ways the sd card can fail on you. After I switched to an SSD, no more random weird problems. Just unstable
i haven’t really had stability issues with kodi/jellyfin, rasbian/Ubuntu, retropi etc. I appreciate where you’re coming from but it’s kind of a knockabout device to help me learn more about apps I would like to host on a proper server later on.
generally am not happy with my pi5 as a hw offering, even as far as cheap arm based SBCs go.