If you are an advanced linux user then I would suggest giving a try to the following distros: arch, void, gentoo and (like you said in the post) nixOS.
The reason behind is that this distros are focused on the tinkering aspect of linux, the experience of setting up everything the way you want.
If you want to give a shot to WMs I would suggest i3, sway, dwm, dwl, river, bspwm, Qtile and hyperland (maybe focus more on the Wayland ones if you want to try the latest software).
Ubuntu. They’ve managed the worst of both worlds: like Debian, everything is old (though admittedly not as old), but unlike Debian, everything is broken/buggy/flakey. It’s the old-and-busted distro that I’m routinely told is “the only Linux we support”.
If Debian is not great as a desktop distro, it’s at the very least remarkably stable as a server distro. The sentiment extends somewhat to Ubuntu LTS. It could be better, but in terms of uptime and just working I can’t fault either distro.
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.
I just now discovered why people are hating on Ubuntu pro by receiving a note that Ubuntu will not provide security updates for some apps it came with unless you activate Pro.
I think I’m done with Ubuntu on any personal machines.
Yeah I didn’t offer much input on personal devices because I did use Ubuntu for awhile as a personal environment and it’s fine, but could use work. I think personally I like Debian better, but if I want a clean GNOME experience Fedora is probably the move.
Currently using Bookworm and KDE as my desktop right now. Works really well! If I need more up to date software I use Distrobox and run whatever distro’s version of software I want. I have both Debian Sid and Arch Firefox versions installed on my machine right now just to see if it worked and it’s flawless. I mostly just run apps from SID container and it exposed the app to my desktop wonderfully. Really the only way I will fly these days.
Don’t forget that Ubuntu was the first distro to both sell user data to Amazon, and show you ads in the terminal. But it seems like everyone forgets about it as soon as canonical goes “whoops, our bad, we didn’t think you’d mind, it’s opt in/out now”.
On top of that I’ve seen allegations that they’re illegally collecting data from Azure Ubuntu users to send them spam about Ubuntu enterprise.
I was an Ubuntu fan many moons ago. Then I fell in love with Mint when it was just all around a better version of Ubuntu.
Then I ended up with a new Windows laptop for years and forgot about Linux entirely. But this year, I’ve actually returned to Ubuntu. I like how it has a fresh and different look and it still performs well on my now aging laptop. Mint is always my go to recommendation to others, but I just wanted a different look than your standard Windows-like look that Cinnamon has. I was initially turned off way back when, when Ubuntu switched to Unity, but now a difference in look appeals to me. We’ll see if I get annoyed with Snaps or not. So far, everything has been running smoothly.
If there was a GNOME fork of Mint, I’d likely be using that. I get that you can technically install whatever desktop environment in whatever distro you want, but for compatibility sake, it’s best to roll with what your distro comes with.
I recommend you try Gentoo and DWM. You don’t have to use this setup forever, but at least try setting it up. Installing Gentoo, patching DWM and st, etc. is fun and it’s an interesting experience. If you want to use Wayland, check out dwl and the foot terminal emulator. Perhaps you’re actually gonna like Gentoo and stick with it, I think it’s a great distro. They also provide binaries for larger programs, so you don’t have to compile stuff like Firefox. But definitely try out custom kernels.
xdg-open is one of the most used commands on my system. Video files, movies, pdfs, etc if I want to use the default application to open anything I use it. No need to memorize each application’ commands.
Humm… this seems rather strange. Maybe show us you docker-compose to have a look on how you configured immich’s network?
169.254.0.0/16 are APIPA addresses . So this a network misconfiguration.
After searching the web, I tried to create /etc/docker/daemon.json
This is not how you configure a docker network. This is only used if your local networks overlaps with docker’s defaut network.
The easiest way i can think on how to make your docker-compose work is to reinstall docker and use the host network. DO NOT forget to delete the /etc/docker/daemon.json file in case you want a fresh start. This seems a badly network configuration on you docker stack !
This will give you a good starting point! After that try to configure a bridge network for your docker compose.
Normally after you get the gist on how docker works, it’s rather easy!
Immich isn’t the easiest docker stack ! I will up it on my own server and give you some feedback.
Because their isn’t any network configuration in the compose it uses the default docker network. Thus… maybe… it overlaps with your own network, that’s what your first post was about :)
I will look into it and if nobody comes up with an anwser before me, will give you some feedback on how it went and try to find out what’s wrong !
First find out what’s your debian network configuration if it’s a fresh install and everything is installed by default, you get your ip and network from DHCP
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If your ethernet or wifi networks is in the inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 range it overlaps with the default docker bridge network.
So I got it up and running in 10 minutes just by copy/pasting the docker-compose.yaml and .env files. So their configuration files are working flawlessly.
Either you have a router misconfiguration or a docker network misconfiguration. Either way If I were you I would first start without duckdns.org domain name and without to much complex network configuration. Start slow and build up to more complex configurations.
Leave your router defaults network configuration, without any open ports.
See if your spare laptop server has internet access when everything is defaulted (if not that’s the first thing to solve)
Check if your networks configuration is in the inet 172.17.0.1/16 brd 172.17.255.255 range (dockers default bridge network)
Default routes on your laptop
DHCP or manual
The important part is to make your laptop have internet access without changing to much, the default DHCP works great !
Fresh docker installation and don’t forget to delete your json file (/etc/docker/daemon.json)
Try again with the docker-compose.yaml and .env from immich’s github
If your network configuration is wrong from the beginning, you are in for bad times specially if you are going to use duckdns ! Try to make it work on your local network first and than you can go crazy.
Also if you do not know what you are doing, please don’t make your containers accessible to the web ! Rather use a wireguard server to access all your containers from everywhere in the world with a secure tunnel !
If you’re a beginner, there is alot to grasp before having a good working laptop server :)
after hours I tried to change distribution and went with fedora, set up everything, installed immich, not a single problem, it all works, also duckdns, and now I also have btrfs so I can snapshot my system. I’m probably very unlucky with debian based distributions, on my main laptop I had many problems with ubuntu as first distro, I had to distro hop a bit to find my place in EndeavourOS
thank you very very very very much for your time and help, I really appreciate this! now it’s time to actually start this journey in the magic world of self-hosting!
My least favorite is Linux Lite. It’s supposed to be a lighter, simpler version of Ubuntu but I don’t think it accomplishes this at all. It’s very slow for something that’s supposed to be lightweight, and still includes Snaps, which are also very much not lightweight. Plus its software center is just bad, which is not great for something that’s marketed at Linux noobs. Linux Mint XFCE or SpiralLinux are better options for a Linux noob who needs a lighter distro, IMO.
An improvement I’d suggest: obviously, ditch Snaps. Another would be to take a look at what Bodhi Linux does and have the “software center” run in the browser. I don’t know how good this is security-wise, but it definitely speeds things up from the UX side of things.
It’s Arch and Arch-derivatives. And I’m saying it as an Arch user, btw, and I actually love it.
Between the Big Three (Fedora, Debian, Arch), it is the least likely to have an official package for somewhat niche applications. If something is not available as a flatpak or appimage, I have to compile it from source or an AUR PKGBUILD, but we all know the dangers of doing that. Some software will just assume that it’s running on a particular disribution, usually Ubuntu. Some software will detect the distribution and straight-up refuse to work on Arch.
That being said, it would take a lot to make me switch to a stable point-release distribution. Arch’s advantages more than make up for the sub-par software support.
(actually, I lied. Fuck Canonical and *Ubuntu. And IBM.)
I don’t like Ubuntu because of their forcing method to use Snap package manager.
I don’t like Manjaro because of its poor dependency management. Many dependencies are not declared, so that if you update a package, it won’t update the undeclared dependency and it won’t work any longer. You have to update everything or nothing, and when disk space becomes low, updating everything at once is impossible.
partial upgrades on distros without hard linked dependencies is a disaster caused by the user.
You should never have a system with less than 20% free space, but I mean system, not /home, not /var/cache/ of /var/cache/pacman,
Make partitions and mount things separately, especially /home
In a pinch you can live without man-pages remove /usr/share/{doc,man,html}/*
and on /usr/share/locale/* keep just the ones you use
I assume that Manj follows #Arch and doesn't improvise on sys dependencies. Definitely not poor.
Arch-archives by date, means you can build a system exactly as it was fully upgraded on a specific date, and the system works just like it used to.
Other systems that may carry 3 versions of the same library because different sw use different versions are the ones with the problem. Except for redundancy and space the system is not very coherent..
RHEL and other extremly long term support distros that have a significant user base because they hold back a lot of software features, network protocol features and moves to new dependencies that are required to work on the oldest and the newest supported distro for any given upstream software project.
Also, any time I have to learn something about a quirk in a version of software in use there it is basically wasted life time because the knowledge is already outdated by the time I obtain it.
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