There’s nothing wrong with it. Quit trying to kick up fud.

I just run whatever linux I want in a hypervisor and make it my daily driver for everything other that teams calls… (I can’t seem to make Linux do any echo cancellation). The mac just can’t do the basics I need on its own, it’s workflow nightmare. Short of pains of being on an ARM64 CPU, the VM does pretty well. Started off using UTM, then switched to Parallels. It’s not always perfect, but it is SO much better that straight up MacOS.

For the storage volume:

Bcache to make an ssd cache, then for the volume itself, BTRFS raid 1 setup. Setup any necessary SMB and NFS shares. Setup Nextcloud via docker. Probably rsync for any local distro mirrors. I’d also toss on dockerized gitlab. Add any additional services via docker.

Zomg, I just lol’d so loud at this.

Why you out there telling people to install it? Those who want it will find it. This isn’t an evangelical mission.

axe deleted.

Gamer’s coming to Linux and messing up all the forums and chats with their pleas to make their Windows games work is NOT a good thing.

• It promotes non open source software.
• They complain about their games, when the problem is the software wasn’t written for Linux. Complain to the makers and the makers of Wine and Proton. ANY issues are not Linux issues. Linux is perfect.

I did and after entering the field I had chosen after graduation, I quickly left. It wasn’t for me. What paid for school, however, was fixing computers, electronic word processors, and building and selling PC’s. Bought an Apollo system to learn Domain Aegis UNIX on and checked out every book on UNIX I could get my hands on. When Linux arrived, I got in at Linux 0.99pl13. I got a job and paid to continue my education. So yeah. When I started there wasn’t a community of enablers.

Depends on the topic. If enlightening them means I am enabling them to harm themselves, then no. Helping people waste time gaming and draw even more Steam users and their Windows crapware games towards tainting the purity of Linux is harming them and Linux, so no. No helping that.

Helping others learn when they are not willing to google, read, visit a library, etc, is called enabling, not helping. Helping those that try and get stuck is helping.

Learn the difference.

No it’s not. There is no duty to anyone. Go to a library or book store and read what you want to learn.

This isn’t a rage bait comment. Show me one Rust tool replacement made that didn’t alter functionality in some way, causing edge cases, and sometimes even mainline usage, to break and scripts have to be written to accommodate. I’ve not seen it yet. If you have, I will gladly stand corrected. The language is great, it’s the programmers at issue.

Oh, it’s not the language. It’s the type of people who not only like Rust, but have a compulsion / need / fixation on re-writing existing tools. They say it’s so it’s more secure, but honestly it’s so they can apply their own opinions of how the tool should be. They always promise to make it a drop in replacement, but then then get rid of options, or change what they do… they can’t help themselves. And that is the kind of people who volunteer to port tools to Rust. If they would stick to true 1:1 replacement, this wouldn’t be an issue.

I warned ya. Rust folks never make a true 1:1 replacement. They have to tweek it. Always.

For those wishing they could do that with zip and 7zip, you can add a permissions file to the archive that you first make with getfacl, and then on the target after extracting said archive, restore permissions and ownership with setfacl from that file.

Handy for certain support organizations that insist on a zip but that later want the permissions. (Looking at you SAP and IBM).

<whispering> Me too…

Mistaking precisely documented Wiki for silence… Do you Mark All As Read your email each day, too? ;)

Aww man, why’d they have to ruin it with making it immutable? ugh!

Old i5 Lenovo laptops.

Please god, no.