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TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in My First Month of Linux

realizing that 11 was only going to bring more ads, force-installed applications, background processes that were nigh-impossible to disable without a lot of tomfoolery, AI bullshit and general bloat,

I don’t get this kinds of comments.

I figured that I would try dual-booting Ubuntu,

So you ditched and unethical mega corp that runs ads for a wanna be unethical mega corp that also mines your data and you’re happy about it? Oh boy the illusion.

I feel so much more capable as a computer user with Linux than I ever did on Window

I just hope you don’t require “professional” software such as MS Office, Adobe Apps, Autodesk, NI Circuit Design and whatnot Linux isn’t a viable options. The alternatives wont cut it if you require serious collaboration… virtualization, emulation (wine) may work but won’t be nice. Going for Linux kinda adds the same pains of going macOS but 10x. Once you open the virtualization door your productivity suffers greatly, your CPU/RAM requirements are higher and suddenly you’ve to deal with issues in two operating systems instead of just one. And… let’s face it, nothing with GPU acceleration will ever run decently unless big companies start fixing things - GPU passthroughs and getting video back into the main system are a pain and add delays.

Linux on servers is great, on the desktop if you’ve to collaborate with others who use those apps it’s game over.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to workreform in Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says

We are not doing well everything is falling apart infrastructure wise even in wealthy areas.

Just to clarify I’m not American nor British and the situation here is mostly what you describe on that phrase. The European dream died before it even started.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to workreform in Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says

Old people are impossible to talk to, painfully neurotic and stupid (…) They know the social contract is broken and they keep telling us to make the same decisions as them knowing we will get nothing for it and die

I guess this is the story of Brexit? The UK shouldn’t have allowed people over 50 years old to vote on that referendum, because they aren’t likely so see the effects of the decision and they’re still delusional about a great empire that can stand alone while they watch American TV shows on a TV made in China and a chair designed in Sweden…

TCB13 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to workreform in Gen Z is prioritizing living over working because they've seen 'the legacy of broken promises' in corporate America, a future-of-work expert says

And then you’ve the fucktards who say in the WEF and other places that “people have to suffer” in order to be more productive / want to work.

They have seen the legacy of all these broken promises. In the old days and in many parts of the West, they would promise you if you worked for 30 years, you have this defined benefit pension, you have retiree medical care, etc. None of that exists today.

But at the end of the day it was the same fucktards who broke the social contract when it comes to work and benefits.

I’m only as good as the value I’m delivering today, and so these are the terms under which I want to work, and you either meet them or not.'"

That’s the right approach to the job market and I’m not even Gen Z. The current state of things, like expecting people to work multiple jobs, underpaying, firing to then hire at half the rate, constant layoffs, unreasonable demands and managers it’s all bullshit that people can’t stand anymore.

numerous Gen Zers are “quiet quitting” and taking a step back at work because they’re painfully aware that their hard work could essentially amount to nothing.

When a employers and governments “loudly quit” on people’s life’s and expectations that’s what they get.

In one survey last year, 74% of managers said the generation was the most challenging to work with.

How many of those managers are 50+ years old, with all they ever wanted and a sense their hard work payed off?

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Running Firefox & Thunderbird through a webserver?

I believe your best bet is to setup linux on some computer / server / VM and access the thing remotely from a browser. That can be gone with solutions such as Guacamole (…manual setup…) OR linuxserver/webtop that is an abstraction over Guacamole to make it more easier to setup. With that running you can access the remote machine from any browser and use those applications.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Is it only me, or do you find all those "I deleted Windows"-posts annoying too?

It doesn’t help much if there are the same threads every day, with people circlejerking on hating Windows and recommending Mint a hundred times, just like 100 people before did on the same thread.

I hate Windows too, but it feels like we’re identifying and comparing ourselves with the bitter ex-partner we had a while ago. No, not being Windows shouldn’t be the main reason Linux is great.

We should focus on what makes our software great, and not what the “bad ex-partner” did wrong.

I completely agree with you and said many times that while I don’t like the fact that Windows isn’t open-source it does provide a LOT of value for a LOT of people who work on certain fields and haver certain software requirements. With Windows there’s a lot of commercial support when it comes to Linux desktop it simply isn’t there.

If you require “professional” software such as MS Office, Adobe Apps, Autodesk, NI Circuit Design and whatnot Linux isn’t a viable options. The alternatives wont cut it if you require serious collaboration… virtualization, emulation (wine) may work but won’t be nice. Going for Linux kinda adds the same pains of going macOS but 10x. Once you open the virtualization door your productivity suffers greatly, your CPU/RAM requirements are higher and suddenly you’ve to deal with issues in two operating systems instead of just one. And… let’s face it, nothing with GPU acceleration will ever run decently unless big companies start fixing things - GPU passthroughs and getting video back into the main system are a pain and add delays.

To make things worse the Linux desktop development ecosystem is essentially non existent. The success of Windows and macOS is the fact that they provide solid and stable APIs and development tools that “make it easy” to develop for those platforms and Linux is very bad at that. The major pieces of Linux are constantly and ever changing requiring large and frequent re-works of apps. There aren’t distribution “sponsored” IDEs (like Visual Studio or Xcode), userland API documentation, frameworks etc.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Suggestions for NAS (or other hardware) solution to home setup

Kinda related: what if I install something like Debian/Ubuntu on it? Can I still use the NAS hardware in the same way?

And that’s what you should do because those NAS specific software is more overhead than solution. You can setup the entire thing manually use less resources and have it better. BTRFS is a good solution when it comes do a simple RAID.

To be fair for a basic NAS what you need is Samba 4 for shares and something like FileBrowser for a WebUI. Another suggestion I’ve for you is to really go Debian and use LXD/Incus to create containers and virtual machines if required. I’ve posted about it here.

TCB13 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to selfhosted in What should I use my RPi4 for?

Armbian has sane defaults for SBCs as well (yes log2ram so you won’t burn SD cards) and it is way more stable and polished than DietPi with less overhead. About bare Debian, you’ve the images I linked to and you can make it log to the ram with a simple line in systemd’s config.

Storage= Controls where to store journal data. One of “volatile” (…) If “volatile”, journal log data will be stored only in memory, i.e. below the /run/log/journal hierarchy (which is created if needed).

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in "Must Try" distros and DEs?

Yeah I get your thing with LXD and Canonical. I’ve been moving a ton of clusters to Incus because of the obvious reasons and I’m happy with it, obviously the fact that the original people who made LXD on Canonical are now working on Incus is a big plus.

Regarding the Proxmox kernel you can read this: pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_Kernel but frankly if you search the web for “proxmox kernel bug” what you’ll find are tons of different issues on almost every version. Another thing that I really hate about Proxmox is the startup, the amount of daemons and scripts they run to make the thing work.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in (Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

Nothing at all, the main issue is that with graphical applications developers have an hard time to package things for all the useless distros out there and some other distros like Debian on stable will only haver older versions of software. Flatpak solves both of this issues.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in "Must Try" distros and DEs?

Proxmox is questionable nowadays, you should try LXD/Incus instead. Read more here: lemmy.world/comment/6507871

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Why has nobody ever heard of Distrobox? Let me tell you why everyone should take a look at it!

Flatpak = things properly done.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Why has nobody ever heard of Distrobox? Let me tell you why everyone should take a look at it!

And the only distros that actually matter are Debian and Red Hat Enterprise, so wtv.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in Why has nobody ever heard of Distrobox? Let me tell you why everyone should take a look at it!

Why has nobody ever heard of Distrobox?

Because there’s Flatpak.

TCB13 , 6 months ago to linux in HP Elite Desk

Those machines are very, very good to run Linux. Stable, everything is supported out of the most, very reliable. About calling home, they don’t, however some models, like most machines, have Intel ME baked into the CPU and that can be remotely accessed. The good thing is that you can disable the Intel ME features on the UEFI and there’s a toggle to completely disable the network card before an OS is loaded.