Nibodhika

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to linux in Why do people hate Manjaro and how to replicate Manjaro sway in arch or arco?

Things in the AUR are built for Arch, so they use the libraries that Arch uses, which means that whenever Arch increases major versions of libraries AUR packages get rebuilt for that version and fail to work on an older one. If you use the packages that build from source you’re less likely to be affected, also this is not such a huge issue because AUR packages take a while to get updated and most of these changes are backwards compatible (so they don’t break on Arch), but I’ve seen it happen plenty of times, almost every week someone using Manjaro would come to the arch subreddit to ask help because a package from AUR had stopped working. And if you don’t believe me, at least believe the guys who wrote the Manjaro wiki

When Manjaro is updated, AUR packages might stop working. This is not a Manjaro issue

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to linux in Why do people hate Manjaro and how to replicate Manjaro sway in arch or arco?

Just use Manjaro, it’s a great distro. I switched from Arch a few years ago because Arch kept changing the tools from the installer so every time I had to read the wiki to know how to install it, and that’s not fun.

In general people don’t like Manjaro because it’s a week behind Arch, so if you install things from the AUR you’re likely to break stuff (although that has never happened to me, it is a possibility). Also because since it’s simple to install a lot of people without technical knowledge have started using it and they say they use Arch, so they get replies which assumed they read the wiki, and they get angry, which makes them seem more annoying, which makes the whole thing escalate.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to linux in Stable Linux distro with up to date packages

By definition that’s impossible, stable means packages don’t get updated, so their version is stable. If you meant stability outside of the Linux world, as in “doesn’t break” then most rolling release would fit, personally I use Manjaro, and have used Arch and Gentoo in the past, Tumbleweed is also a good option that others have recommended.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to linux in Best distro to turn my old laptop into a server?

Just use docker, relying on the packages inside your distro for that is a way of having a bad time. What if WordPress needed PHP 7 but Nextcloud needed 8? Or something similar. There’s a reason containerization is a thing, and the host OS is mostly irrelevant.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Getting back into things and wondering how you all self host your stuff?

I live in Ireland, I have family in Brazil that access my server via tailscale. It’s not the best experience, but I think it’s the best I can do with a home hosted server. Exposing stuff to the full internet is a security nightmare.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Getting back into things and wondering how you all self host your stuff?

I just give them access through tailscale, but then again I don’t have many people who need access to what I host.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to selfhosted in I have the mini computer. Now what?

I wouldn’t do Windows, Linux will give you freedom to use docker for most things that you might want to host. As for which distro use whatever you find nice, there’s not going to be much difference. Some of the things people are suggesting are great for extremely advanced use cases, for just spinning up some services whatever you feel more comfortable would be best.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Getting back into things and wondering how you all self host your stuff?

Things that I need to be internet facing run on an actual server, most of my stuff is hosted on a laptop in my living room and I use tailscale to access it from outside the house, but I mostly consider that a plus and wouldn’t depend on it.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to linux in Best distro to turn my old laptop into a server?

My home server runs on a laptop that’s running Manjaro. Does that mean I recommend Manjaro? Nope, then why do I use Manjaro? Because it’s the same OS I have on my personal computer so it makes it easier to maintain two of the same than different OSs, so my suggestion would be whatever you’re using on your main rig, and if you don’t use Linux on it then whatever you feel more comfortable, there’s not going to be a major difference between distros in their capabilities, but there is going to be a major difference in your willingness to maintain a system you’re not familiar with.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago to linux_gaming in What headphones are you all using while gaming on Linux?

I have used aSoundcore Q30, a Soundcore A40 (these are earphones, so not sure if they fit here), Sony XM2 and XM4, and currently I'm using an Astro A50 that I got from work (mostly because of the microphone). The XM4 are the best by far but not very gamey, I wouldn't buy the A50, not think they're worth the price.