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I wouldn’t build anything significant on the RPi Zero and instead would try to build elsewhere, namely on a more powerful machine with the same architecture, or cross-build as others suggested.

That being said, what’s interesting IMHO with container image building is that you can rely on layers. So… my advice would be to find the existing image supported by your architecture then rely on it to layer on top of it. This way you only build on the RPi what is truly not available elsewhere.

Absolutely, but OP will have to explain a bit to their boss why. Maybe we can help OP there?

Fuck that walled garden is not a business value added task so can we, as a community who cares how openness, translate that to C-suite MBA speech?

• Apple devices are more expensive to manage (source? time from OP to do so? additional hardware? TCO comparisons?)
• Apple devices are less compatible with software solution we use in the company (examples?)
• Apple devices …

Maybe Ubuntu, RedHat, and other company selling FLOSS have reports to help there.

This is nearly 20 years old but give the idea of the words needed https://www.cio.com/article/274764/operating-systems-the-tco-of-operating-systems-compare-the-big-oses.html

Here is something a bit more recent https://umatechnology.org/comparing-operating-system-costs-windows-macos-linux/ but again this isn’t to give an “answer” but at least understanding management perspective, which is not really a technical one but rather a cost/value one.

Mine, we’re one in it, me ;)

Interesting, thanks for sharing the use cases and clarifying your choices.

I do also have a standing desk with a relatively large screen on a monitor arm. I also have a walking pad under the standing desk. The goal being to ergonomically have as much freedom as possible while still being efficient.

I did try the XReal months ago but I don’t think I tried the Pro.

Otherwise I worked with pretty much everything (Google Glass, HoloLens, Vision Pro, Quest (all models), Lynx XR1, Monocle/Frames, my own DIY ones, etc) but my main focus is WebXR and 6DoF, so not really replacing a screen. I do understand it is useful, and sometimes as I travel I use the Quest 3 or Vision Pro to work in there but that’s typically a temporary measure. My professional perspective is that 6DoF with hand tracking and accessories (6DoF pens, BT keyboard, etc) is the most novel way to interact with information hence why I build open-source WebXR prototypes on that topic.

my work PC […] isn’t powerful enough

Ask a more powerful work PC, that’ll be cheaper for them than you tinkering for hours.

Out of curiosity, and because I work in XR, what do you used those glasses for?

Anyway an event based solution, maybe via xev filter on randr category could be more elegant. Still, whatever works for you! Thanks for sharing.

How about watch -n 5 your_command instead?

I bet the local Linux User Group would know. Seems too late for that purchase but worth checking for the next one.

So… Linux the kernel but without the freedom?

If you mean unrootable Googled Android then I don’t consider that Linux. If you mean something else please clarify.

I’m way too lazy for such an endeavor… so what I would do instead is

• buy a DVD player on a standard interface (right now seems to be USB-C) that seems to cost (wow… seriously that cheap?!) about the price of a lunch, so 30 EUR.
• download RIPs from a Torrent tracker

once that’s done then I would only do the additional content of a per-need basis which I would then upload back to a Website that cares about this kind of content, potentially the Internet Archive.

Indeed, so my argument is that sure a “better” installer might change a small fraction of the marketshare, say 1%, but it’s not enough to change significantly, say 10% or even reach parity.

An interesting example is the Steam Deck coming with Linux installed. Sure there are few people who do (by choice) install Windows alongside Linux but AFAIK the vast majority do not. That’s IMHO particularly interesting on a topic, gaming, where Windows has been traditionally the #1 reason people picked a specific OS.

Didn’t watch the video… but the premise “The biggest barrier for the new Linux user isn’t the installer” is exactly why Microsoft is, sadly, dominating the end-user (not servers) market.

What Microsoft managed to do with OEMs is NOT to have an installer at all! People buy (or get, via their work) a computer and… use it. There is not installation step for the vast majority of people.

I’m not saying that’s good, only that strategy wise, if the single metric is adoption rate, no installer is a winning strategy.

Get a PineTab2 and put GCompris on it. If you want a distribution specifically oriented toward pedagogy consider https://primtux.fr/

IMHO though the distribution itself does not matter. What matters is what software you make available for the user and what rights you let them have, e.g. installing apps or adds-ons vs not, Website controls vs not, etc.

Indeed someone else pointed out https://lemmy.ml/post/29858248/18514122

Folders, ssh, key auth, sftp and scp are the main things I’m looking for.

suggesting that anyone who wants a central console for their remote systems must be somehow incompetent

IMHO that’s exactly what ~/.ssh/config using its Include directive as shown in https://lemmy.ml/post/29858248/18510482

       Include
               Include the specified configuration file(s).  Multiple
               pathnames may be specified and each pathname may contain
               glob(7) wildcards, tokens as described in the “TOKENS”
               section, environment variables as described in the
               “ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES” section and, for user
               configurations, shell-like ‘~’ references to user home
               directories.  Wildcards will be expanded and processed in
               lexical order.  Files without absolute paths are assumed
               to be in ~/.ssh if included in a user configuration file
               or /etc/ssh if included from the system configuration
               file.  Include directive may appear inside a Match or Host
               block to perform conditional inclusion.

from https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/ssh_config.5.html

So what I think people are highlighting is not that your need is wrong, rather that you rather than going back to fundamentals (e.g. lower command-line or even configuration here level stuff) you are looking for more complex and specialize tools. That tends to be reasonable in the Windows world where people are often looking for GUI but in Linux, started from Unix and thus CLI, this is a process that will often lead to disappointment. I believe people who are saying things perceived negatively here are pointing out, maybe poorly, a cultural difference that will be problematic in the future, thus why they are insisting.

I bet you can find stuff on AliExpress for a lot less but then you have to insure support is descent.

What is typically done, e.g. buying a PinePhone with PostMarketOS or refurbished setup deGoogled Murena phone, is having a default user with a well known password, e.g. 123456. AFAIR when you setup Rasbian you do have an interface to have a default user with a password.

I personally made an ISO of a configured distribution, see https://fabien.benetou.fr/Cookbook/Electronics#SocialWebXRRPi0 and that worked quite well for my use case.

I wish there was a budget for every company and government to pay retirees part time to go back over their oldest code that’s still in use. A lot of retired programmers would do it for fun and nostalgia.

There is no budget for it AFAICT but there is https://github.com/abandonware and others trying to help on that path.