None… I tried with my Dad and even add some cool tools in additions (youtube dlp frontend). 2 days later he just reinstalled Windows on top because: “My USB audio dongle didn’t worked”.

Guess what? I didn’t either on Windows and was an external peripheral issue, not an OS/driver issue.

But he also said:" Too complicated for me" 🤦‍♂️

Linux mint debian edition.

The reddiverse !

Systemd is great ! You really begin to love it after you have tinkered with MacOS’ launchd implementation and .plist files🤦

And let’s be fair to them, who’s even heard of lithium batteries catching fire?

Euhhhh… You sure about that? Maybe you’re beeing sarcastic? But buses lithium batteries catching fire is not something unheard off ! Even a few Teslas burned to the ground went viral in the news !

Isn’t pacman -Syu the recommended way to update anyway? I have always used that o. EndeavourOS and hadn’t any issues.

Except for the recent nouveau nvidia driver :/

1. Yeah I guess I have made it more complex. But what hard links allow me to achieve is to save disk space while still working on the file without changing the original one. Imagine I have to copy my files to sonarr, have a copy in my torrent directory and also a backup on an external disk… That’s alot of space ! This may be a simpler solution, but only If you have money to spare on disk space. Yes, it’s “cheap” when you have a bank account and money lying around, but that’s not the case for everyone :/. I think the ARR* stack works similarly and works with hard links !

2. Oh… never heard of Terraform, will have a look, thanks for the pointer !

Hard links are files…

I guess so, but files are just links pointing to inodes ? :) Sorry If I’m wrong here, and please give me the proper knowledge If you are willing to share :)

Edit: After some reading, I think Ansible seems a better fitting. Terraform is more for creating infrastructures while Ansible to manage them and configure them?

Yeah I feel you… Sorry about that :/ ! At work you probably don’t have a choice, however at home, you are free to choose whatever makes you comfortable.

Window XP was probably the best and last good Windows version… 10 was kinda okay without all the telemetry shit and bloatware.

Windows 11 feels like macOS with extra steps + spyware on every move, click, clipboard copylpast… Wouldn’t go near that stuff even with full protection and debloat ^^ Just remove that shit and install linux instead.

Or people who uses it as a mini server and SSH into it while lid is closed 😎

plocate is backwards-compatible with mlocate, and is much faster and more efficient than mlocate. source

From your personal experience, what do you prefer and why, if you don’t mind :).

A blocky road ahead of you ! It will take some time, don’t try to speed up the process ! Remember the first time you started Windows on a computer ? It wasn’t easy at all ^^’ but now most people know how to start and use a Windows system.

Linux is great, linux is freedom and customization but linux is also a hell of another level of complexity.

It really takes 5min tops ! But only if you know what you are doing. Immich is not an easy compose stack for beginners. There’s also all the other stuff you have to take care off (backup? Behind proxy? Share with people outside your lan? …).

Having the compose stack up and running is just the first step ^^ but once you get the hang off, it’s fun and really cool stuff floating arround (navidrome, pihole, home assistant, newpipe, vaultwarden, jellyfin…)

It takes some time to get comfortable but don’t give up, it’s worth it !

Can’t exectly remember how or where but I had some chmod 777 -R going on on my setup on the wrong directory and everything seemed fucked up !

Was easier to fresh install instead of hunting some permission issue… Learned from that experience and still learning something new with perms on Linux !

but you’ll lose the ability to mount them on Windows if you do that.

One viable solution to that, is to mount that drive as SMB share, best of the two worlds !

This is a perfect valid approach though ! My first few years in self-hosting I learned soooo many things: CLI, Shell, scripting, networking, containers…

Doing my own AV1 encodes I learned alot about audio/video processing, metadata, ffmpeg, av1an…

Maybe not as structured as OP asked for, but there’s way to much to learn in the OS world that a whole life is not sufficient to have it all ! However, following that said goal, you will learn alot arround other stuff and improve overall.

If your goal is to learn the Linux system and all the nitty gritty arround it, good luck :/ it takes more than 1 person to make an OS work, so understanding all the bells and whistle is just crazy IMO !

Haha… Had a similar though 2 days ago. What a dumbshit move and this actually told me that “AI” isn’t that good actually… Because the dubbed version was so horrible that the video became unwatchable xD.

Nice AI slope YouTube !!

Yep, but only if you familiar, otherwise it can range from 1day to a week depending how complex our setup is (OCID,Fail2ban,reverse proxy, self-signed miniCA…).

But once your setup is all ready and you get all the bell and whistle it’s just a matter of 5mins (and very fun too if you have time to spend !)

It’s very versatile and does a lot of things and I do like ffmpeg and use it a lot !

Too bad their AV1 and OPUS implementation is bad and even outdated for opus :( !

They got hit by a lot of negative reviews and bad publicity those last years. Myself gave it a try last years and while it isn’t a bad distro from first impression… The fact that they add bookmarks into my firefox and Manjaro bootscreen at start gave me a strange feeling… Specially because this happend after the bios bootscreen hack. And I know this is not related but it still gave me strange gut feeling and always follow your guts !

Happy EndeavourOS user !

Somthing you need to be very careful is your clipboard when you copy/past from the internet to your terminal. It can contain hidden malicious code… Nasty shit !

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/113627/what-is-the-risk-of-copy-and-pasting-linux-commands-from-a-website-how-can-some

Always past into a text based application before pasting to your terminal.