TL;DR: ChromeOS is Linux but it's not Linux but it's a Linux so count it as a Linux but not Linux. Half.

I always thought the Red Hat business model was based around service and support with the OS being a secondary product which is why the free forks existed. When did the OS become the product?

"like mini lightweight VMs"

That's exactly how I've approached it cause that's exactly how it was explained. But it's not at all like that. Thanks for your explanation.

This guy makes some of the best Linux content on the Internet. This walk through is spot on and if you're having trouble with the written guide, watch the video and you can do it along with him in several different scenarios. I can't say enough good things about his content.

https://www.learnlinux.tv/arch-linux-full-installation-guide/

I was just about to reply that perhaps they didn't quite realize it was a Hitler quote, then the Vice article showed a picture of the quote in print with it clearly attributing Hitler. Yep, go on ahead and get fucked.

At all three tiers (low, mid, and high end), out of those three available brands, you always want brother.

Arch and Debian. I have two home PCs with all my data on an smb share. One runs Debian 12, the other runs Arch. When I sit down I decide which I want to use and go. I couldn't pick one I liked better so....I didn't.

What doesn't make sense is your use of the term "offline editor" - it's entirely nonsensical in this context. If they can't use an offline editor, they won't be any better with an online editor. It's like saying you need a 4 door car because you can't drive a 2 door car - it's the same thing with more seats. Photo editing is photo editing regardless of where the software is hosted.

I'm currently using Arch and doing the same thing. I learned more than a decade ago not to even bother with asking questions to the community at large. Bunch of self righteous dicks they are.

Huge thanks for this. I'll look at them tonight.

I can second this. I've had two bricked System 76 systems because the DC jack burned itself right off the board.

Since when is Gnome the default? The default varies by distro...

pfSense on a ZimaBoard 216 works astonishingly well and it's easy to setup and manage. Toss in a Mikrotik CSS610 and you have a vlan ready setup in under an hour.

If you don't like the ZimaBoard, you can go with any of the Topton style router PCs from AliExpress for a couple hundred and have a 2.5Gb router running in proxmox with docker in a separate VM.

Are there any machines in use anymore that don't support UEFI? When did it become standard? Something like 2012?

I'm thinking about getting into tinfoil hat manufacturing cause they're about to sell out.

You can self host VS Code.

CTRL + D

As does the author's head.

Son, I think it's time you learn about vlans.

I like sendgrid. They have a free smtp service that works great.

Are you using /etc/resolv.conf?

I don't use proton but I found with tailscale it's much more stable to use systemd-resolved because it doesn't overwrite resolv.conf. I don't know if this is the case with proton as I don't know how it treats different resolvers but I would look into it.

In all honesty I ran both because I hadn't yet discovered route advertisement on tailscale. Now that I've discovered that feature, I really only use wireguard for the phone due to battery drain with tailscale. Also, I can't use wireguard on my work PC because the firewall drops all VPN traffic and tailscale gets around that. I'm not gonna pretend to know how it gets around that cause I haven't bothered to learn it that deeply yet but it works and I like it.

I guess the TL;DR is tailscale bypasses firewall restrictions and wireguard doesn't drain my phone battery.

Dammit. Just this year I settled on Fedora as my distro of choice. Back to Arch I guess. These fools are ruining Linux and I ain't happy about it.

Yeah tailscale is definitely useable on the phone if you toggle it only when you're gonna use it. I keep it on because I have piHole as the VPN DNS so I get adblocking everywhere I go wether I'm on public wifi or cellular. So I need something that doesn't drink battery juice. Wireguard ftw.

This. I always opt in BECAUSE it's opt in. Ask and ye shall receive and all that; but if you're gonna try to force my hand, well...no, I don't think I will.

I use workspaces regularly. Typically a browser in one, terminal in one, and the third is where I put whatever else I'm currently working with which could be dolphin and maybe gimp or an IDE, whatever the other is might be in the moment but browser and full screen terminal in separate workspaces are daily standard.

I run in a VM everyday for work since they won't let me install Linux directly and Wayland and Pipewire have been problematic for me. Video playback is pretty choppy (which I don't need, but it's not a smooth experience) and if I want to get sound out of the VM I have to move back to pulse. It's been pretty frustrating. Systems, though - haters can stuff it. Systemd is good.

I have a zx01 or something like that from AliExpress with an N100 and 16GB. Those little machines are seriously impressive. It's running Garuda and my son has not complained once about any game he's tried to play. I don't play games, I just bought it on a whim cause it's tiny and $150 or so. I've run several systems on it without a hitch. I'm pretty certain it'll hose a Minecraft server without an issue.

This is why I use OMV and Nextcloud. A daily backup job duplicates everything to OMV. A weekly OMV backup job goes into Skiff drive. Fool me once...

Can you elaborate on this?

For public facing, I use Cloudflare tunnels. For VPN access from across the divide, I use tailscale and pivpn depending on use case.

Most of my servers are hosted locally on a separate vlan and firewalled off from my internal network.

I use them a lot actually. I really like them. It's really useful for things like vaultwarden access from any machine, anywhere. I also host a humhub instance for my mother's bible study group and a couple informational sites behind them. It pushes all of the traffic through 443 without having to fiddle with SSL. I wouldn't lean on it for major website without local SSL but for small use cases like mine it works great.

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Does endeavour use pacman? I've got Garuda running on my son's PC and I'm not a big fan of their update script.

No, I have no issue with pacman, it's the "garuda-update" script I don't care for. I see endeavour has eos-update which I haven't really looked at much but in Garuda if use "pacman -Syu" it will interrupt with "Garuda uses garuda-update for updates" - I know it's trivial and I don't have to use it but I don't like that. Don't interrupt my workflow to try and coerce me to use your script. Yes, it's a petty gripe but it feels very microsoft-like in the same way that Windows 11 will delay the launch of Firefox to tell you "Edge was built for Windows."

Isn't Ubuntu Pro free for individuals?

Yeah I spent a few hours with Podman before I went straight back to Docker.

I currently have it running on a Zimaboard 216 which has a Celeron N3450 processor. Runs perfectly fine. Also have an instance running in proxmox with 2 cores and 1GB. Runs perfectly fine. I don't know what the documented requires are but I can say from experience, it doesn't need much.

Can you not learn by extrapolation?

Watch the video if you want greater detail.

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