I fall pretty squarely into the script kiddie category compared to a lot of people on here and arch wikis has been an incredibly valuable resource.

“I want to do X like Y. Surely someone much of done this by now.” Arch wiki: “funny you should mention that. Here is free documentation that is pretty up to date, has lots of detail and examples, but don’t drown you.”

Seriously, I look at red hat and debian documentation and little ADHD brain hamster just strokes the fuck out on his wheel. Arch wiki is a comfortable ride. It’s just…digestible if that makes any sense.

Arch has glorious documentation. That is literally the only thing that blows me away about it.

Im boxing with fedora at the moment myself. I hate that arch was easier.

Mint is ugly and they are way behind the n Wayland adoption. Their updater annoys me because you have to double-shot it by updating the update then running it again to get the updates the old updater couldn’t install.

Otherwise it’s fine.

Explore fedoras options instead, in particular the KDE ones if you are coming from windows.

Do you need clusters that can failure ver from one machine to another? Is yes, proxmox is good. If no, there are less complex options.

Just demonstrate what a syntax error is.

“The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” Vs “The fox, quick, brown, lazy dog is jumped over by.”

You are trying to say the same thing but the computer expects to be told a certain way, so it’s confused.

blue iris is so clunky and inelegant and I keep seeing it reach out to weird things on the internet that I’ve never been happy about. There’s also some weird update server in china that keeps trying to push something to it I’ve been blocking for years and it just keeps trying it. I get that its kid of the gold standard here but it has enough negatives and nothing it offers over anyone else is relevant here so I can move to something else.

It primary purpose is to drive security cameras. it’s proven to be an enormous unreliable pain in the ass that bogs down when running windows over time and theres nothing windows does better that this is involved in so I’m pulling the plug on that.

Its not running windows server, just win11 pro. and its doing it really. there is zero reason for it to be as slow as it is.

I already have a few local techs that know linux that can step in if something happens to me.

Also, I have long term concerns about windows considering what MS is doing with AI and the regime we are currently under and I’d like to insulate them from as much of that fallout as possible.

Navidrome jukebox mode needs a third party app to work. I’d like the built in interface to be able to do all it needs to.

Yes, but fedora server has cockpit and I can swing that or proxmox to do that same thing so either way this is doable. I’m still planning this all out.

The server was overbuilt years ago and I want to give it more responsibilities this time around. They currently have a dying all in wone pc that just runs iheartradio all day I tot he speakers int eh store and that seems wasteful to me. The server is running all the time anyway so I want to just fold that into its responsibilities. Give int a nice simple webUI is a just a bonus.

Sam’s Club doesn’t use windows for their machines. The self checkout uses some pervert proprietary version of Linux and the registers for humans have some java powered thing. No windows.

Was pinchflat flawed in some way? I’m all for having more options but if this uses yt-dlp anyway I’m not sure this is contributing to anything.

Why did they abandon it? I thought they merged it in a while back.

But a major player is basically leaving it.

Not if we look at it as linear growth. But in the environment we are in, this has the potential to be exponential growth.

Remember when Intel intentionally ignored the mobile market?

Let’s see, Microsoft kills 10, which nobody really loved but they were willing to tolerate. Microsoft insists they move to 11, which is universally reviled.

Gamers predictably say “fuck this” and install the first gaming-oriented alternative to windows 11 they can find on Bing, and then this happens.

Has Microsoft realized the Intel-level deep shit they are in yet?

Wait is this like what onbase does?

PCIe 3 x4 on the M-key, PCIE2 x1 on the E-key

mini home server based on an orange pi 5 plus. I have 2 M2 slots available, and I’m trying to use the M2 M-key slot for this. there are no full pcie slots on this board.

The EoL doesn’t affect me. I use Linux and Mac. My work pc is windows 10 but that’s their problem.

My roommate refuses to move on. I flat out gave him an old surface pro X with win11 and a spacious new SSD. I offered to migrate him to fedora and teach him how to use it. I offered to help him pick out a new pc if he wants. No, he’ll just keep waiting 20 minutes for his old crusty Dell to boot up, then another 10 to load chrome. For updates, he said he’ll just download hacks as people post them online.

All his shit is on its own VLAN now.