Brings back memories of running “The Upper Room BBS” and “007 BBS” as a teenager in the late 80’s as a SYSOP. Those were fond memories, of having someone dial into your computer and making online friends from across the country sometimes.
I think now though, you can just Telnet into different BBS’s still.
Last time I used unity full time was 3 years ago on an old hp, couldn’t run gnome for some reason and I was very noo in Linux at the time so I installed Ubuntu 16 and upgraded it to 18. The aesthetic was very windows 7. It was alright but I prefer gnome
That might be why tbh. Unity seems very intuitive as long as someone has an open mind similar to the expectation that a mac will be different than wibdows.
As far as I understand, Unity is mostly just a Gtk-based desktop environment similar to Cinnamon, but with the Unity shell and launcher, and the global menu.
As a long-time Mac user I always liked the global menu, but it was just such a pain to always have to patch Gtk to get it to work, and in the end it isn’t such a huge improvement to my quality of life that I think it is worth the trouble. It is nice that Unity takes care of this for you. That said, and I hate to admit it, but I think Gnome actually is more stable than Unity, mostly because there is so much more financial backing for it, so it is hard for me to recommend using Unity unless you really just love the aesthetics of it.
Ok but you know that im using the official Ubuntu unity flavor thats maintained and i really just want to be unique using an Underrated de instead of gnome and the like but kde is also great as well and i will switch to it after i get a customized to unity first
From a guy who processes thousands of devices in e-waate recycling, legit any refurb lenovo thinkpad/dell precision/hp elitebook laptop. People will stop using tech way before they should be stopped being practically used.
Imo i think thinkpads are better value(due to sheer volume in market) and they tend to have several options (normal laptop vs 2 in 1 vs slim laptop vs big screen vs one with a gpu in it)
I’m curious, what file system do you use to mount your share? (SMB, SSHFS, WebDAV, NFS…?) I’ve never managed to get decent performance on a remote-mounted directory because of the latency, even on a local network, and this becomes an issue with large directories
Like iSCSI, it exposes a disk image file, or a raw partition if you’d like (by using something like /dev/sda3 or /dev/mapper/foo as the file name). Unlike iSCSI, it’s a fairly basic protocol (the API is literally only 9 commands). iSCSI is essentially just regular SCSI over the network.
NFS and SMB have to deal with file locks, multiple readers and writers concurrently accessing the same file, permissions, etc. That can add a little bit of overhead. With iSCSI and NBD, it assumes only one client is using the file (because it’s impossible for two clients to use the same disk image at the same time - it’ll get corrupted) and it’s just reading and writing raw data.
main thing to note is that NFS is an object based storage (acts like a share) where iSCSI is block based (acts like a disk). You’d really only use iSCSI for things like VM disks, 1:1 storage, etc. For home use cases unless you’re selfhosting (and probably even then) you’re likely gonna be better off with NFS.
if you were to do iSCSI I would recommend its own VLAN. NFS technically should be isolated too, but I currently run NFS over my main VLAN, so do what ya gotta do
Yeah, there are a few limitations to each. NFS, for example, doesn’t play nicely with certain options if you’re using a filesystem overlay (overlays), which can be annoying when using it for PXE environments. It does however allow you to mount in several remote machines simultaneously, which I don’t think iSCSI would play nicely with.
SMB though has user-based authentication built in, watch can be quite handy esp if you’re not into setting up a whole Kerberos stack in order to use that functionality with NFS.
I’ve found that NFS gives me the best performance and the least issues. For my use cases, single user where throughput is more important than latency, it’s indistinguishable from a local disk. It basically goes as fast as my gigabit NIC allows, which is more or less the maximum throughput of the hard disks as well.
A benefit of NFS over SMB is that you can just use Unix ownerships and permissions. I do make sure to synchronize UIDs and GIDs across my devices because I could never get idmapping to work with my NAS.
idmap only works with Kerberos auth, but iirc I didn’t have to set anything up specifically for it. Though I’ve also never really had to test it since my UIDs match coincidentally, I just tested with the nfsidmap command.
Would’ve been nice of them to compile the kernel with a fix applied to see how much of an impact it has (though even in the post they seem to suggest that it’s not that impactful unless you run massive clusters)
Ah I gotcha. Another option im considering is using a separate pc for windows and using a kvm to switch between them. That may be a good option for you as well if you can swing it.
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