We drive our TV with Raspbian. It is a fairly vanilla Debian distro and works pretty painlessly. Only things it doesn't do are DRM specials like Chrome browser to watch Kanopy or Hoopla. There may even be work- arounds for that. However, there's plenty on Knowledge, TVO etc. JN On 2020-10-07 4:33 p.m., James Lockie wrote: > What about a Raspberry Pi? > It seems powerful enough to be a desktop. > > On October 7, 2020 15:36:30 Dianne Skoll <dianne [ at ] skoll [ dot ] ca> wrote: > >> On 2020-10-07 14:17, Pierre J. LaViolette wrote: >> >>> I am a first-time potential user of Linux. I have known about the Linux world >>> for quite a long time and have a small project that would bring me into that >>> world. However, I have no computer programming skills and consider myself a >>> knowledgeable user of Apple products. >> >> If you are interested in potentially using Linux as a first-time user, >> I would *not* recommend trying to install on a poorly-supported architecture >> like PowerPC. That's really the domain of Linux experts, and is bound >> to leave you frustrated. >> >> If you want to try out Linux, I'd recommend starting on a standard >> x86_64-architecture PC and moving to the more esoteric architectures >> once you have some experience. >> >> My 2¢. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dianne. >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >> To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org >> To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org