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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 20:27:22 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   I've been a Linux user since 1998 or so, but there's a reason that I mainly use it on servers. Recommending it to non-techies is a dangerous game. I won't risk my reputation on that, and I don't want to handle all the technical issues that would inevitably follow.

   In the case of my roomie, he's not alien to editing a config file to tweak an indie game he's playing, and he knows how to use Computer Management in Windows, so he won't be completely helpless if he faces problems...

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Oct-2018 20:30:42 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      ...but I still had to step in and help him deal with a couple of issues. When we first installed SMPlayer, we removed the other media players we weren't going to use. This inadvertently caused SMPlayer to stop working, because it depends on either MPlayer or MPV to function, but doesn't actually have any of them as a dependency in APT, so when we removed MPV, SMPlayer mysteriously stopped working.