If you can install another driver onto the computer, you can put Linux on that and kept the windows OS still, in case you need it. This is dual booting. You chose which OS you want when booting up.

Have to keep things offline and outdated nowadays 🫤 to prevent things like this happening.

They have their own thing I believe. Have to use Putty for SSH.

Is OpenSuse tumbleweed worth checking out? Something fairly stable and good for gaming.

I have been using Pop-OS for the longest but recently got newer hardware and therefore waiting for the new version to get more stable. Using bazzite meanwhile. Immutable distro is interesting but not sure if I like it.

Will it run on Linux?

I tried the benchmark and that seems to run fine.

Magic wormhole? Never used it myself personally.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.leastauthority.destiny/

If you have them as a contact already in SimpleX, then why not.

I get a blank screen. Broken or does that mean I have none? On GrapheneOS

Pretty sure they are talking about the app, not the model.

Mint, pop_os, even Ubuntu if needed.

Maybe brazzite but haven’t tried it.

I don’t know the details but both use services from the carrier. I think google hosts for the carriers but there are checks thats rely on the carrier. If you look at the details for google messages it address specific URLs based on the carrier.

For iPhone its all carrier depend. If the carrier doesn’t support it, iPhone will not have it.

Whatever you can afford for pixel 8 and above, if possible. Those will be supported for longer.

Its good if everything you need can run from Kodi. It uses its own Linux distribution in the background, so you won’t really be able to install anything else unless you build it.

I would avoid anything built into the TV.

1. Its starting to be used for spying on you
2. The chip they come with are usually not that good unless it’s a high end TV.
3. They are building ads right into the TV themselves.

I would not connect the TV to the internet and use a external media player. Either a Nvidia shield or an Apple TV is your best bet.

You can also try building a media player yourself using a small computer.

Note - The self made media player will be more limited in terms of apps available, unfortunately, as well as streaming quality from some of the streaming services.

You can probably do some more advance tasks via CLI. Also usually lists information faster. But honestly you will be overall fine with GUI a majority of the time.

Some people just like being in the terminal.

You should be fine doing what you want on Linux. Just make sure everything works before installing completely. There is a liveUSB mode that let’s you try it before you install.

Mint and PoP os are good ones to try.

Can also check out Zorin os which is pretty good too but doesn’t update as often.

Isn’t matrix more like slack that you are looking for?

Yes to google maps if you have the play services activated.

No to pay/wallet.

Yes to Android Auto as of recently. The grapheneos team just released a implementation of it.