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lemmyvore,

Run a full memtest on your RAM. Very likely you may have developed a few bad areas. Take pics if it finds bad zones, you can use the addresses to tell the kernel to avoid them.

lemmyvore, (edited )

There’s nothing wrong with a single HDD in an old desktop except for the risk of failure.

I would start by getting one hdd that’s the same size or larger than the one you have and using it as backup. If the old HDD is very old and small you can probably find a larger one cheap, don’t go out of your way to find another small and old one.

Something like Borg Backup will be perfect if you use a Linux filesystem because Borg is incremental, has deduplication and compression built-in. There is a very simple graphical app for it called Pika Backup (for Linux).

There are other solutions if you use Windows but even a simple copy of your important files is better than nothing. Get a HDD and copy files to it right away.

Another backup solution is to buy a DVD or BluRay burner (can be USB or internal) and backup super important files to optical disks. This may or may not be cheaper than a HDD.

Do NOT rush into RAID, Unraid, TrueNAS and other fancy stuff like that. Your priority right now should be backup not RAID. RAID is a convenience for keeping a system running when a HDD fails but it is NOT a replacement for a good incremental backup.

After you have a backup in place and use it regularly you can consider whether RAID and availability is something you want/need.

lemmyvore,

In addition to the above, most of the percieved advantages of CF are non-existent on the free tier that most people use. Their “DDoS protection” just means they’ll drop your tunnel like a hot potato, and their “attack mitigation” on the free tier is a low-effort web app firewall (WAF) that you can replace with a much better and fully customizable self-hosted version.

lemmyvore,

I mean I’m fully with you on the fact screen autodetect isn’t stellar on X but there’s no need to exaggerate with “2 or 3 scripts”. It’s one xrandr command.

lemmyvore,

Not supporting Nvidia cards will make Wayland unusable for at least half the Linux desktop users, probably more. Stats I recall range from 50-75%.

“Just buy non-Nvidia” is not, I repeat, a simple option. Lots of people stick with old GPU models because the price/performance ratio has gone out the window and they cannot afford to drop hundreds or thousands on one. Many others have Nvidia in their laptops.

There’s nothing preventing Wayland from working with Nvidia except the political insistence that it be open sourced. Which Nvidia is not interested in, never was, and never will be. And it’s a red herring to begin with.

TLDR either Wayland bends their stance on open source or their adoption will be severely limited.

lemmyvore,

Nobody’s getting rid of X support. Not for several years.

lemmyvore,

You can start by trying Linux Mint, it’s based directly on Ubuntu but with most problematic bits of Ubuntu removed. Mint comes in several sub-flavors that mostly change the way your desktop looks and acts, start with the Cinnamon edition as it’s the safest bet.

lemmyvore,

Manjaro ships with a LTS kernel, which is marked “recommended” in the kernel selection tool. By default you don’t have to do anything, don’t ever need to use the kernel selection, and you won’t experience any problems, it works like any other distro.

The issues you described are caused by selecting one of the non-recommended kernel versions. It’s assumed you know what you’re doing if you do that.

lemmyvore,

Doesn’t Void have a tool that does the symlinking for you?

lemmyvore,

Keep using it if it works for you.

Manjaro detractors are usually:

  • People who do stuff they shouldn’t, like using non-recommended kernel or driver versions or replace critical system components from AUR, then blame it on the distro when stuff breaks.
  • People who don’t understand how AUR works and think that Manjaro holding back binary packages for a couple of weeks has any effect on AUR (which is built from source…)
  • People who can’t get over the times when they didn’t renew their certs or when they accidentally DDoS’ed the AUR. It doesn’t matter if the distro is good or not. Those instances of carelessness should be held against it forever.
  • People who can’t stand the fact it’s a commercial distro.
  • People who can’t stand the thought of any Arch-based distro that dares to do anything different from Arch (other than make the install easier, that one seems to be acceptable for some reason; but there are more extreme people who dislike that too).
lemmyvore,

Tell him you can “talk” directly to the computer that way.

lemmyvore,

Maybe you can think of the developer like a backend.

lemmyvore,

That’s not how source packages work. The only way they’d break is in case of major upstream changes. Which do happen, but the only inconvenience would be recompiling the package. Which you’re supposed to do anyway.

Do you reinstall your AUR packages after an update? If yes, you will never see them break on Manjaro or Arch. If you don’t, they will break on both Manjaro and Arch.

lemmyvore,

Manjaro has graphical tools that make it super easy to manage packages, drivers and kernel versions.

lemmyvore,

Mostly misdirected anger from two categories — Arch purists who balk at the notion of someone modding their beloved distro, and newbs who blame Manjaro for issues they create themselves and they would have on any Arch-based distro.

lemmyvore,

Install x2go on the client machine. You need X and SSH on the target machine. That’s it, when you connect it will open a new desktop session on the server.

If you want to connect to an existing desktop session you need x2godesktopsharing installed on the target, you need to activate sharing in x2godesktopsharing, and in x2go client you need to select “session type” as “X2Go/X11 desktop sharing”.

lemmyvore,

Most services just need the init system to start, stop and monitor them. There’s no special integration needed for each of them beyond running a command, monitoring the PID, and killing the PID when it’s time to stop.

If you mean the special integration of docker and podman with systemd, first of all that’s only required in rootless mode and not everybody runs rootless (most users probably run root docker). In rootless mode you have to manage each container individually as if it were a standalone service instead of just managing docker. Basically you have to integrate each container into the init system, whatever that is. There are some tools that make it easier to with podman+systemd because they write the systemd units for you but you can do it with any init system. The distro mostly doesn’t care because you have to do the work not them.

lemmyvore,

I would also mention:

  • The multi-user system, which is a bunch of config files, libraries, utils and UIs, that deal with logging in or doing stuff as a specific user.
  • The logging system. Individual applications can simply log to a different file each but for system services the logging is usually centralized and offers additional features (like logging remotely etc.)
  • Setting up networking is pretty much mandatory these days.

Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives

Are there good Microsoft word alternatives that support Linux (I don’t mind closed source)? Libreoffice is meh and only office is quite good, but are there any better ones? Also, is there a way to install word on Linux using wine? When I do that my laptop just overheats and loses internet connection.

lemmyvore,

They obviously need it to open docs made in Word by other people…

lemmyvore,

Same about Manjaro, it’s probably the most beginner-friendly Arch distro. Arch is inherently not beginner-friendly, of course any distro that attempts to make it more so will have to change a couple of things. It’s a pity some people can’t see beyond keeping Arch “pure”.

lemmyvore,

Tbf I don’t think many people know about pacdiff. The way I found out about it was by looking up a warning about pacnew/pacsave during an upgrade, because I was bored. Very random.

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    lemmyvore,

    I think you bit a big mouthful if you’re just starting out on the NAS game. I would suggest breaking things down into smaller pieces:

    1. Prepare a standalone container only with the VPN.
    2. Try to set up a torrent client container on its own.
    3. Learn how to set up docker networks for the 1st and 2nd container so that the torrent client will always use the VPN.
    4. Try to set up a Jellyfin container on its own.
    5. Move on to the *arr stack.

    nixOS also has a bit of a learning curve and it would’ve probably been easier if you started with something else. Up to you if you want to stick to it. IMO it’s mostly overkill for an OS that will simply serve as the base for a docker setup.

    lemmyvore, (edited )

    Counterpoint: I don’t think any Linux DE will ever see mainstream adoption.

    It has nothing to do with how good they are. It’s not related to software support either. They could support every piece of software ever made; Linux supports 90% of games for Windows and emulators for dozens of other platforms and it still hasn’t attracted more than like 2% of gamers.

    It’s related to what OP said: to gain mass adoption you need to put up with a lot of bullshit. It takes a company with some financial gain to do that, and paid developers. Volunteer contributors will eventually say “screw this” or go mental like Torvalds.

    There’s no company that can do this. They tried and failed, because Microsoft. Apple and Google had to create their own platforms from scratch to get away from it.

    lemmyvore,

    If anybody’s new to mechanical keyboards get a Keychron. Lots of models to choose from.

    Just one gotcha, don’t get it directly from Keychron, their support and returns are terrible. Look up local resellers on their site (“where to buy”) or as a last resort buy from Amazon. If you’re in the EU remember that you can easily purchase from a reseller in any other member state.

    lemmyvore,

    Netflix “4K” is often hit and miss. It doesn’t always stream at a high enough bitrate even if it’s labeled 4K. Basically it’s anybody’s guess what encoding you’re gonna get at any given moment. I imagine that makes ripping quality very random.

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