I don’t expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it’s based on a micro-SD and I don’t have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice “work” on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what’s possible with it?

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    I helped set up many households with kids on Pi-2s and 3s, running Raspbian and Kano. All you needed was a keyboard, mouse, and a monitor. It all worked fine with Scratch, Minecraft, LibreOffice, Web, and email.

    At least, until the kids outgrew them.

    • vrek@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Yeah I’m thinking my SD card is failing… I know it’s slow but I tried to do a fresh install in recovery 7 hours ago and it’s still initialing the “noob” installer.

      Supposedly I was thinking to small, I was thinking like trying to use nmap to discover all ip addresses on my lan or load vim to practice vim motions (I get the idea but I’m still too slow put in alot of commands cause I’m like ok… Up 10 lines, ok, up is… Look on cheat sheet… I… then number of lines… That was 10…look on cheat sheet… Oh just enter 10…it didn’t work… Figure out because it’s not ingrained in my head the time looking at a cheat sheet is making commands time out).

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        3·
        3 days ago

        or load vim to practice vim motions

        Because I sometimes forget, here’s your reminder that vim has a built in :vimtutor command which I have found surpringly good for a few minutes of guided practice now and then.