https://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ this has been my favorite for a while. It keeps the retro sort of look while still being actually ledgible

Okay so I am typing as someone who has helped local businesses set up computer systems. Nothing big just one or two person operations. Getting them computers, downloading their software, and making sure they understand how to keep up to date.

I would recommend you use what you are comfortable with at first. Use Windows, get your business in a comfortable position to experiment. And then I would say try Linux out.

I imagine you will need to keep up to date with invoices and the such and you will need to figure out what software you are going to use that. You could always just be basic and use excel sheets but most businesses are using Quick-books or something similar. And a lot of invoicing software does not work on Linux. I would say invoice-ninja is probably the most popular invoicing software on Linux so that would probably get you the best support. This is usually the point people tell me they will stick with windows.

But if you are able to get past that and maybe learn one of those invoicing software applications then I would say you would have next to 0 issues. As you are in a business environment pick something reliable. Debian, Ubuntu LTS, or RHEL. I would test them all in a vm and see what you like best.

Now word documents may cause issues. Maybe. I find libre office works for me 95% of the time. But I don’t do anything very fancy with it. I write essays and maybe every now and then I will include a graph. I would test libre office on windows and see how that works for you. Only office is also an option but I have 0 experience with it.

Also I find that linux is seriously lacking in ways to manage pdfs. At this point I use my browsers built in pdf reader more than any sort of linux app. Digital signing has always been a pain in the ass and the pdf reader I have the best luck out of is Zathura which is a cli application which is definitely not new-user friendly. But this isn’t really an issue it’s just me nitpicking. You can manage pdfs on linux just as well as windows it just may not be as user friendly some times.

You mentioned you are worried about some video formats not working on linux. May I ask what sort of video formats those are. I find vlc or mpv to have great support for most if not all video formats.

My recommendation would be to use linux. I love it. But this is a new business. Use what works for you as much as possible. Get to the point where you have the funds and free time to experiment and try linux. Poke around with some open source apps in windows and see how they work. Invoice-Ninja and libre office both have windows versions.

I wish you luck with your endeavors and I hope my comment has helped somewhat

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See I have foot and it says it supports sixel but no sixel commands were working until I got libsixel installed

See I found that but I still could not figure out the install process. I finally figured that libsixel was the newest one but it still seems unmaintained. I ended up compiling it from source as it was not in the fedora repos. At this point I am more confused about the correct version of sixel to use. Libsixel is the only one I can really find

How the hell is a for profit company communist. The idiocy of this world never fails to amaze me

She sounds very experienced in managing larger projects and even some open source ones. Reading articles is not a hard endeavour. Perhaps you should try it. Gnome is the largest desktop enviorment on linux and it isn’t there because of bad decisions

Man I used arch for a while and many other “bleeding edge” distros and I just can’t get enough of Fedora. It is so stable and has such reasonable defaults. I use the fedora kde spin and have zero issues with my setup. Now since you are on nvidia you may have more issues, since by default fedora only ships the open source nvidia drivers and you would have to use https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration to get the nonfree stuff. Also you’d have to use dnf which is very similar to apt in my eyes and is very easy to use. Fedora even gets stuff sooner than arch on ocassion which is nice.

I do enjoy my time with fedora and for the most part it has very little setup. It’s a very set it and forget it distro

I personally really enjoy silverblue. The easy backups to me is useful for anyone. It allows me to experiment with entirely different setups on my laptop without worrying about losing my original configuration. I see it as the future of linux

Nearly everday I see a post with over 1000 upvotes. For such a niche platform I would say it is very populated and active. I enjoy the population lemmy is at. I can recognize posters on lemmy. It reminds me of reddit when it was first getting popular

What’s off? It’s an app for managing appimages that is hosted on flathub. Just because it is a flatpak does not mean it can’t manage appimages

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https://gitlab.gnome.org/raggesilver/blackbox/-/issues/297 it could possibly be this bug. I am not entirely sure. My use case does not feature many hyperlinks so sorry if I got ya excited for something you can’t use

I recommend black box. https://flathub.org/apps/com.raggesilver.BlackBox it is the nicest and most intergrated terminal on gnome and I use it daily and have zero issues

I run the newest version of ubuntu server and it’s pretty much adds for ubuntu pro. But to be honest I don’t really mind it. They offer the extended updates for free for a handful of computers if you sign up for it. If the tradeoff for 10 years of support is some adds I am okay with it

https://mrchromebox.tech/ you can also install linux with coreboot. Works great on mine

I’ve got a smb server setup with a 12tb server drive. Anything important gets put on there

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Anything brother. I have never had a single problem with my two brothers. I had an hp inkjet not too long ago and it was the most Godawful ass backwards device I have ever used

I hope they will begin to focus on Wayland. It’s nice they are adding gestures but they are still stuck to x11. ElementaryOS has gestures on x11 and they are really nice but gnomes Wayland gestures just beat them out of the park.