Good time to install Linux and switch for good. You'll save thousands of dollars over your lifetime if you stop buying Apple.
Sincerely, a former mac user from 1999-2016
Yup. Got the pop-up about being out of free articles. Opened a browser I never use (with no ad blocker... Cause I never use it) so I got to experience the site with ads.
The entire experience was hilariously ironic to read about service's enshitification... While being bombarded with constant ad garbage.
Bye bye wired. That was a waste of my time.
I don't see how that's true. The main point of AppImage is it 'just works' on any distro. If you have one primary place to distribute them to any distro - it's still meeting AppImage's vision.
They probably realized snaps are garbage and are still trying to desperately un-garbage them before the release.
'Best for what?' is the issue with this never-ending pointless discussion.
RHEL is a fantastic distro... For some things. It's also a horrible distro... For other things.
Is this the new "Arch, btw?"
I run RHEL on my personal desktop and laptop. Why? Because I use it at work and the more I use it the better I understand it. This benefits me both at home and at work. I've even built Ansible roles and playbooks in git to setup my home machines. Overkill? Sure, but I have great peace if mind if I lose a boot drive that I'll be right back to normal quickly.
You can absolutely use an enterprise distro at home. Ignore the trolls about "It's all too old" or "it doesn't have X software". I don't care what version vim, GNOME or pretty much anything is, as long as I can open the core tools I need. For "missing" software: I've yet to find any software I "need" that I haven't figured out how to install (again: Ansible-d) including Flatpak for all the normie stuff (spotify, slack, discord, etc) and I'm golden.
My $0.02
As someone who uses GNOME on two monitors...I dont understand
Ok I'll bite. What's so bad about dnf? I would take it anyday over apt.
Ok I'll bite.
What's wrong with CentOS Stream specifically when you're just talking about POC before buying RHEL?
It's literally RHEL in the form of the next/unreleased point release. If your configs/software breaks between RHEL 8.6->8.7 or 8.7->8.8... Then sure, CentOS Stream won't work for you.
If like MOST users of RHEL you build out a config on RHEL 7.x or RHEL 8.x and dnf update from there between the point releases: I don't see the difference.
At least that's what they said it uses.
Ok I'll bite. What's the software you "need"?
Install Linux and this is the way.
This all falls apart as a "reason" when you consider Windows Home vs Windows Enterprise.
The better reason is that Windows Home sucks.
For the uninitiated, does "gen" imply source/compilation somehow?
Have you searched this question online? It's been asked thousands of times. See Sander Van Vugt's books and videos. 2nd best thing to the official resources (if not better in some ways).
Like the other commentor- I also tried hard to use wger but it was just too unintuitive. I switched to Liftosaur and love it for making a weight lifting routine easy to design and track:
https://github.com/astashov/liftosaur/
I did test self hosting it and it's not too bad, but just switched to my iPad and subscribing for the premium because the auto calculating the plates for each lift saves me a lot of time and I feel good supporting this developer.
If I can't run GrapheneOS on it, is has no value to me.
Wouldn't the larger ones be the ones you'd get the most benefit from compiling?
In fedora podcast #30 just a week or so ago there was some discussion about ansible and silverblue. I don't think it specifically answers your questions, but may be an interesting listen since you're looking into this. https://fedoraproject.org/podcast/
Have them check with their University if they do any Linux support. If they do - use one of the distros they support so they might possibly have KB articles about accessing University recourses from Linux.
Source: am Linux admin at a University that writes such documentation. I have seen exactly the Eduroam issue you mention and came up with an Ubuntu workaround for example.
This isn't true since Dec 2021.
If you aren't already. Check out "Eternity" for lemmy. It's Infinity, but for lemmy. Feels really nice having basicly the same app, just pointed at lemmy instead of reddit.
Can you use snaps with autofs/NFS yet?
I was curious and I was able to use ansible to install a list of flatpaks without problem
A post like this doesn't do anything towards fixing those bugs. I bet a soda you didn't file a single bug report.
That's the minimum first step if you want to contribute to the improvement of those issues.
I'm curious - how much data are you backing up with that method and how frequently are you doing your backups? Doesn't sound like it would scale well, but I'm also wondering if maybe this is perfect and I've justbeenoverthinking it.
No problem. If you can't get it working hit me up and I'll see what I can do to help.
Hi - been a sysadmin for 19 years and I can tell you why: software that 'requires' Ubuntu. I work at a University and all of our required software runs on either RHEL or Ubuntu. I would LOVE to move everything to RHEL and rid my life of Canonical shenanigans, but we have software that just won't run (in any sane form) on RHEL. The researchers especially love Ubuntu because much of the software used in the LLM/AI explosion is generally released with Ubuntu packages, or install instructions based on Ubuntu package dependencies.
tl;dr - it's not the sysadmin choosing, it's the developer choosing.
Precision are much better than XPS
Expensive if you want 1 hoodie, plus most of us would prefer if at least some tiny portion of the money supported the project.
Are you intentionaly using NTFS for compatibility with another machine? If not, I'd use a Linux native filesystem like xfs or ext4 and add it to /etc/fstab
Something doesn't add up, or only 2/3 are true.
I promise I'm not a troll, but I just don't understand the appeal. That's a crazy expensive piece of hardware to run a currently only mostly working distro.
Even when the hardware is 100% working, it's still ARM, so anything that's not open source won't run because it'll be x86_64.
Definitely a chicken and egg problem on availability of ARM software.
I'm asking in good faith - am I missing something?
Hi! I sincerely want to thank you for your well thought out response. I apologize if the word troll came off wrong. I probably should have used a better descriptor. My primary goal was to be a voice FOR enterprise distros at home - because I saw mostly posts from people who probably aren't professional sysadmins and have never even tried an enterprise distro.
I fully concede on the VERY new hardware being a challenge for RHEL, an Ubuntu LTS or similar. I'm unfortunately not in a situation where I can afford that problem (kids and daycare costs) so it's fallen off my radar. I do occasionally run into it at work with research groups that just buy the latest/fastest gaming hardware without checking with IT (we would generally steer them towards workstation/data center grade hardware instead of gaming hardware...not applicable to this discussion for home use). If somehow I could acquire something with new enough hardware to have that problem I'd probably use Fedora on it (so I could just modify my Ansible to work with both), and wait for current Fedora to become RHEL and then that hardware would become RHEL for the rest of it's lifetime. Mainly - the huge number of constant updates and the every 6 month big updates on Fedora are just too much hassle for me.
On gaming and the other comparisons about improvements on newer packages: I do agree with you. My personal approach has just moved to use what is "tried and tested" and "good enough". It's a pretty common approach for sysadmins to let other early adopters find all of the bugs in new stuff. For example: I'm excited about bcachefs, but when I installed Fedora Rawhide just to test it after the recent 6.7 release - I found it largely NOT ready for anything I would need to trust (commands that return the console, but no indication that they did nothing for example - doesn't give me a good feeling about putting all of my family photos on it until it matures). For now, I'll still use XFS for small systems and ZFS for large systems or where I need send/receive.
All of that said: I acknowledge these are preferences and my approach, not a " right" way. I do still think it's a valid approach for some who wants less updates and a more stable config if they're happy with "fast enough" and less potential for update breakage.
Thank you again for being respectful and detailed in your response. Cheers!
I've been zwifting exclusively on Linux for a few years now with this: https://github.com/netbrain/zwift
It's pretty distro agnostic. I'm using it with Podman on RHEL 9.
Still requires you to use the companion app on your phone for your Bluetooth connections, but it beats keeping a Windows machine around. Good luck!
If you care at all about Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, yes. See the Dec 2020 announcement. https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
The primary thing that makes FOSS popular is that you can fork it. You're saying that people need to not do the main thing it's designed to be able to do!
Don't become so concerned with if you could, that you overlook if you should.
I would buy a larger drive.