As others have mentioned, perhaps while the metaphor is weak, your spirit is strong!

My kid’s Chromebooks (I purchased for them before the school provided) reached EOL before they finished elementary school.

I installed Linux (Gentoo) so we could continue using them. When power is correctly configured, they were very cool to use as a quick tool to search for something, answer an email, write a quick document and other simple tasks. They did not work well as workstations as an old Thinkpad might.

Since they are so light, and the battery lasted forever, we would leave them on a counter, and pick them up as needed.

I feel seen.

Mine is a front end for hosted services. Nextcloud, jitsi, and the like.

Thanks! While flatpaks are not the Gentoo way, I’ll give it a try.

LLM speech-to-text.

It appears continuous speech recognition is possible, but I only got as far as recognition of an audio file.

Still very cool!

reFind is superior in this use case, as it will detect and boot any EFI media, even hot plugged.

I used this when my son’s computer wouldn’t boot after a Windows update. None of Microsoft’s tools would repair the disk.

I attached it to mine and ran ntfsfix on it. Success!

Can you grab logcat from Android when attempting to stream?

I want to be the owner. <— see the period there?

Don’t you DARE speak French in France unless you’re a native speaker!

That country is the reverse complaint put forth in this thread.

This does not support your claim.

Does the USA have an official language?

“No English” can be interpreted many ways. A few examples might be: “It’s really hard to learn, I’ve tried and I just can’t get it!” “I don’t make enough money to take lessons, and I don’t know anyone who will teach me. Will you?” “I’ve learned some English, but I feel nervous speaking to strangers.”

I suppose “I refuse” is possible. I assume people with such an attitude are in the minority (I’m an optimist).

KDE / Qt licenses

Can you point where it’s not OSS?

still refuse to learn a single word of English

Do they say this out loud?

Still and all, USA has no national language.

It’s where Linux really shines, to be honest. Those specs will be fine. Great learning opportunity for the students too.

If you believe everyone is human equally:

If you had the same genetics and upbringing as that “bad hombre” , you’d make the same choices.

Your question is likely too general for a good answer.

What do you need specifically? What makes the solutions you’ve tried ‘meh’? What would make an office suite ‘better’?

There used to be a wine-based project specifically for Microsoft office. It was called crossover office. Not sure if it’s still maintained.

Good luck!

Are they grooving with several species of small furry animals in a cave?

I was (am?) in the same dilemma. Loved my 7 pro, but someone dropped it, cracked the screen, and things started going downhill (hardware wise) from there.

As a replacement I got an 8t (still OnePlus). It’s nice, but I miss the 7 pro.

OnePlus is no longer an enthusiast brand, and I think the Pixel is the only other one currently. Maybe the Nothing phone? That’s kind of early adopter territory still, I think.

Sorry I’m not more helpful. I prefer phones with unlocked bootloaders that allow for alternate firmware to be installed.

IRC.

Doesn’t everyone?