2 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

In addition to moving off streaming last week, I also moved our not so old family PC to Linux. Apple Music was the last remaining indispensable proprietary piece of software on that computer aside from Windows itself. My little sister used the service there since the PC is her only device that could run that app. Her emerald green Nokia flip-phone has some of her library loaded as mp3s, but Apple Music was where most of what she liked was. Since the subscription had now lapsed, I fetched all that I knew she liked for her in preparation of this move, put Ubuntu 26.04 on a USB, and removed the abomination that is Windows from the family PC. I went with the most mainstream that wasn’t Linux Mint because I personally prefer GNOME to the Cinnamon desktop and aside from that, the two distributions are largely the same. I found KDE as a desktop environment to be too visually overloaded with options that I appreciate, but my sister and parents would be overwhelmed by. I also needed something…

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