SherpaOnnx TTS for Android. There are many different voices to pick from that sound very life like and are totally worth using with GPS apps like CoMaps.

Also, just found out about Medicat recently but haven’t used it yet. It looks fantastic though: Medicat is a toolkit that helps compile a selection of the latest computer diagnostic and recovery tools into an easy to use toolkit.

Ventoy is a software you put on a USB stick to make it so you can load as many bootable ISOs as you want on it at the same time and still use the leftover space for normal file storage.

PhotoGIMP exists as an option

That was certainly a good deal you found yourself. I personally don’t like paying off a phone from a cell provider

I just ordered an 8a because of how affordable it is used on eBay (~$250USD) and specifically for long support time it still has. Probably the best bang for your buck version

Opt-in analytics to be accurate

Benchmarks online tend to show very minimal performance difference between distros. The main difference with gaming distros will be ease of installation of gaming stuff like gamemode, etc. Some distros also have a Steam Picture like mode if you prefer that. Besides the “gaming” stuff, the distros are otherwise just a normal Linux experience so yes you can install a VM software like normal.

Bazzite and CachyOS are two popular suggestions. Bazzite is a Fedora atomic spin for gaming and has specific images setup for your hardware. CachyOS is arch based and has optimized packages for your specific hardware

Thanks, this is great

Use Fedora workstation or Fedora Kinoite if you want an atomic version. If you just want a system to work and you don’t care to tinker much I highly recommend Kinoite as it won’t break easily on you and is very stable.

Unfortunately I don’t know how yo help with your original question then.

CoMaps is a recent fork because Organic Maps shows signs of corporate takeover and going against the principals of FOSS More details here https://lwn.net/Articles/1024387/

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Hahaha so many articles on different percentages

I’ve got Mint XFCE on two old laptops

You should rescue your son now and switch him to Linux

I saw that too. It’s crazy what people put up with

I thought the 5% story was for USA users

SteamOS, Bazzite, and the Plasma DE I think are what’s driving Linux to be more popular. They are all very streamlined experiences.

Are you positive it’s all the maps or maybe just the world map overview?

Also sidenote, look at the fork of OrganicMaps called CoMaps

Futo gave them a micro-grant this month

Turned off completely isn’t off. You’d need to put it in a Faraday bag

Especially with all the talk of Transhumanism getting more common