I’ve been zwifting exclusively on Linux for a few years now with this: https://github.com/netbrain/zwift

It’s pretty distro agnostic. I’m using it with Podman on RHEL 9.

Still requires you to use the companion app on your phone for your Bluetooth connections, but it beats keeping a Windows machine around. Good luck!

Tell me you don’t understand what those distros are without telling me you don’t understand what those distros are.

Have you searched this question online? It’s been asked thousands of times. See Sander Van Vugt’s books and videos. 2nd best thing to the official resources (if not better in some ways).

And use Linux for work, what’s your point? You seem to imply Linux is only for personal.

Can you use snaps with autofs/NFS yet?

Yup. Got the pop-up about being out of free articles. Opened a browser I never use (with no ad blocker… Cause I never use it) so I got to experience the site with ads.

The entire experience was hilariously ironic to read about service’s enshitification… While being bombarded with constant ad garbage.

Bye bye wired. That was a waste of my time.

On 22.04 LTS, you can’t even open Firefox if you’re using NFS/Autofs home directories.

How is that not taken seriously as a major bug?

Ok I’ll bite. What’s the software you “need”?

• old laptop
• windows 11
• tech illiterate

Something doesn’t add up, or only 2/3 are true.

Cool. But will we again be able to open Firefox on an NFS/autofs home directory?

Don’t become so concerned with if you could, that you overlook if you should.

I would buy a larger drive.

I promise I’m not a troll, but I just don’t understand the appeal. That’s a crazy expensive piece of hardware to run a currently only mostly working distro.

Even when the hardware is 100% working, it’s still ARM, so anything that’s not open source won’t run because it’ll be x86_64.

Definitely a chicken and egg problem on availability of ARM software.

I’m asking in good faith - am I missing something?

The primary thing that makes FOSS popular is that you can fork it. You’re saying that people need to not do the main thing it’s designed to be able to do!

Snap is that bad when it doesnt work on network home directories, and both firefox and chromium (included in tbe distro) have been moved to snaps… So the included browsers can’t even open.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1884299

Can you point out the wild bugs that kernel panic the OS? I’m an admin for a large number of RHEL machines and our team has talked about switching to Stream. Would love to know more about these bugs.

This all falls apart as a “reason” when you consider Windows Home vs Windows Enterprise.

The better reason is that Windows Home sucks.

Don’t know what’s funny about that. It was originally written/tested on the Google Nexus 4.

Edit: dug up a source:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/FAQ#On_which_devices_does_this_Developer_Preview_run.3F

“The initial development at Canonical happened to be on the mobile phones Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 and the tablets Nexus 7 and Nexus 10”

Production. Means “anything important”.

I think it was actually the default on 18.04 LTS as well.

If I install something and it just plain doesn’t work without google play services - it gets immediately uninstalled and I find an alternative.