Maiq

One of us, one of us!

They aren’t gonna make it free, your still gonna have to pay and likely more in monthly service/rental fees and hardware. If my theory is correct, they want you to settle for less while they control the hardware, host all the services, manipulate all the data and surveil everyone’s movement and conversations. All this made easier with a central hub cloud computing the plebes are forced into due to manufactured scarcity.

So I’ve got a wacky conspiracy theory about this and all the hardware shortages, ai datacenters, etc. The tech companies are trying to position themselves for “cloud only computing devices” being the only affordable option for most people. The you’ll own nothing and like it model.

One of my favorite things about linux is the freedom to choose. There is not a perfect one size fits all starterpack. Everyone has different needs and expectations which is why the starter distro questions have so many different answers. Those answers aren’t wrong as they meet the needs from the presenters point of view.

Debain is a great choice. Nothing wrong with debain. I use it for my media server.

Welcome to your linux journey.