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LoRa terminal pairs ESP32-S3 with LR1110 and full keyboard

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The best Linux distro for you probably isn't the one everyone recommends

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2026

Quoting: The best Linux distro for you probably isn't the one everyone recommends —

Whether it's a YouTube video or any kind of broad recommendation, you have to remember that the majority of the audience for content on the internet has relatively modern devices, and those recommendations are usually made to have broad appeal. It's not as simple as searching for "best Linux distro" and choosing the first one or the most popular one, because your hardware may not always play nice with those options.

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