Ask HN: Easing wife onto Linux laptop How to?

• linux-surface

  481 4,505 9.1 Shell

  Linux Kernel for Surface Devices

  

I wouldn't bother to style it like Windows, would do more harm than good

Microsoft Surface with Fedora GNOME is a good easy gateway to Linux, mainly because of the touchscreen

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supporte...

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

• privacy.sexy

  122 3,539 9.4 TypeScript

  Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy

I recently encountered https://privacy.sexy here. It looks like it handles the telemetry side really well… as long as you’re happy to run a ton of someone else’s bash script as an administrator

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Invidious

  422 15,028 9.5 Crystal

  Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

  

why don’t you just watch youtube through Invidious ( https://invidious.io/ ) there are so many instances available, and you can even watch them in HD by appending ‘ &quality=dash’ to the url.

For Twitter you can use Nitter etc… there are alternatives, wrote a nice blog post about what I was able to collect https://dminca.codeberg.page/posts/improving-your-web-experi...

Suggest a related project