Basé et rouge-pilulé

Based? Based On What?

Love the light on that shot! I hope you’ll keep going with the hobby!

Here are a few things:

• “Kit lens” such as this 18-55 of yours are typically not that great. It really depends what you plan to shoot, but going with a prime lens (50mm f/1.8), if you can afford it, or something vintage (Helios) can be a great experience; also for “forcing” you to shoot manual, as other advised.
• Great to see you are on Linux! I have no idea about the webcam stuff. I also didn’t had luck trying to use a Sony camera myself, but I’m guessing if the proprietary software doesn’t work, the only option is to get a capture card for your PC.
• For editing, I strongly recommend Darktable, also as advised before!
• Shooting manual is rewarding; shooting “blind” (idk if there is a specific word for that), where you estimate the exposure “by hand” is a lot of fun imo, and very forgivable on digital camera! If you can, give a shot at the “Sunny 16 rule” technique. To me, it makes shooting outside very relaxing since I don’t have to care about the camera settings that much once it’s figured out.

Have fun, but beware! It’s a deep, deep rabbit hole.

Damn, I thought it was a command line shell for the 90s.

Aren’t we all ?

Always love to see article of non programmer people using Linux or Emacs!

I would like to know too! Never saw that writing system before.

The most baka OS ? =)

But for real that makes a lot of sense to use her for plan9 related stuff! I never saw that elsewhere and I’m glad to have discovered it here!

I want to believe it’s the one with the fancy feather war bonnet in the background.

Cirno? In the Analog Nowhere? Ludicrous

See you, space cowboy

Better keep a fireballs-casting fox with you in case you encounter one!

pfetch anyone ?

Take a look at that snout!

Illegally smol

plugs in 2.5mm jack

Welcome to the community!

Seconding all the previous comments recommending Linux Mint: since you come from Windows, you’ll probably feel most at home there. It is also possible to do all common tasks without ever opening the terminal.

Mint should run fine on any hardware, but to be most safe, try to use something that is at least 1-2 years old and stay clear from dedicated GPU as first (in particular Nvidia).

I’d also advise that the packaging situation for distributing software in Linux rn is somewhat messy. Thankfully, multiple format (apt, Flatpak) are directly available in the Linux Mint Software Center. In case you need to use some proprietary software (Chrome, Spotify, idk), you’d probably want to go with Flatpaks.

This! Except for the infamous case of the illustration picture for SCP-173, the rest seems to be under CC-BY-SA, as noted in the official website. Thus there should be no restriction apart from citing the original content for making libre stories, games and stuff.

I’m currently running Alpine on my RPi4 as a host for some Dockers, including pi-hole and it works great! The setup is surprisingly painless and you’ll end up with some insanely fast boot time. Highly recommended !

I’ve been trying Librewolf as a Flatpak on my work machine lately and it’s going great! It’s really a no-BS Firefox + privacy settings by default; love it. But in general I keep the default Firefox that come with my distro.