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Comment by throwawaysea | Hacker News Reader

It would be great to have a privacy-first, censorship-proof, ad-free, free software centric tutorial series that is aimed at the average layperson. Everything from what computer to buy, to how to use Linux, to how to perform backups, to how to safely store passwords, and so on. The software (Linux distributions) has improved, but I feel like the evangelization and education has not.

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People still think it is 15 years ago that it took a week of tinkering to figure out how to get sound from your sound card.

I just don't care enough to become a linux missionary/priest though and try to get people to switch. I can't make the horse drink the water.

I installed Pop!_OS 21.04 last week and use a USB mic/headphones. After some googling I had to apply this fix to turn off the power saving subsystem which was turning the card on and off. This is on a desktop computer.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1230833/annoying-click-poppi...

Yeah it's 2021 and we're still dealing with this shit.

it's really pretty trivial at this point. Buy yourself an all-in-one raspberry pi 400, and use it, if you are worried about screwing up.

I meant more to get your everyday mom and pop to use a software stack that isn’t owned by one of a few giant conglomerates. I think the HN crowd can handle a raspberry pi but it’ll take more for a random person on the street, IMO.

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