I'd say that if you want a stable, "just works" experience, try fedora. It's the only distro I've had truly 0 issues or complications with...
Coming from someone who's clearly never used Arch... It is anything but stable, that's kinda the whole point.
Think of linux as desktop android... That's probably the best advice I can give you. Depending on which distro you choose, they'll have different app stores. GNOME Software for some, discover (yes, that's the name of the program) for others, Pop!Shop for Pop!OS. As for managing apps - avoid installing snaps. Other than that, don't worry about it.
Pretty much all cloud providers are supported on linux, most of them just don't have bespoke apps and get added directly to your file manager. Some distros have a step during the initial setup, where you can log into accounts and what not, which should setup stuff like OneDrive automatically. And if not, i don't think setting them up manually is too hard.
Do not install/uninstall stuff from the terminal. Most self-respecting user friendly distros have an app store which does all the things for you. Installing things from the terminal/the internet should be a last resort, only if the thing you want to install is not available anywhere else.
As for my distro recommendations... try Fedora KDE or Linux Mint.
No, it's not unix. None of the systems in the meme are actually unix.
Linux is unix-like, made initially by 1 guy who just so happened to base it around another unix-like OS and has quite literally nothing to do with unix
BSD has no original AT&T unix code and while it does work in similar ways, it is still not unix
Windows is windows... The closest thing it has ever gotten to unix is the Windows Services for UNIX, which literally only existed so that M$ could claim POSIX compliance and get a lot of government money...
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I sound like a fcking loser omg
Moths, especially the big ones... idk, they are just insanely terrifying to me. I know they cannot hurt me, I know they are harmless, they terrify the life out of me
Don't we already have polkit and pkexec for that?
it's the never ending cycle, we struggle getting wifi to work and then laugh at windows users trying to get windows to work
Yes, and that's exactly the reason why I'd never recommend debian for a desktop
No, stable for me means "it's not buggy and broken"
Except, that older versions of desktop environments tend to be less stable...
On gentoo, no, but I forgot to mention in the post that the issue is plasma 6 exclusive, as I have both it and hyprland installed and screensharing works fine on hyprland, so idk.
I mean, I get it being broken for the release candidate on gentoo... But it still being broken in the same way on 6.0.4 on alpine... That's gotta be one hell of an imagination
I've had this same issue on Gentoo and now on Alpine, both with plasma 6 (Wayland). Pipewire and plasma 6 seem to be working as intended other than that... Any help would be appreciated!
E: the issue is plasma 6 exclusive, I have hyprland installed along side it and screensharing works just fine there
I like telegram, it's a messaging app... Yeah
Just... Use virt manager or if you like me hate it's UI, gnome boxes. They are different UIs for the same thing. And are both infinitely better than virtualbox.
Due to unfortunate circumstances (me dropping the laptop) I have now ended up with a half broken laptop that has a broken screen and a dying battery. I could repair it, however, I don't wanna bother as I'm very likely gonna be getting a new one soon.
The laptop itself still works fine, however the broken screen and dying battery make it pretty much useless as a laptop and I already have a home lab NAS thing, so I'm kinda out of ideas on what to do with it. Any ideas?
Here are the specs:
CPU: i5-8300h
GPU: intel HD830/GTX1050ti
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 128GB SSD
I have recently setup a system with TrueNAS scale and while it's been mostly smooth sailing (lies), I can't figure out why TrueNAS itself cannot connect to virtual machines and vice versa, which kinda sucks for me as I have a wireguard server setup on a virtual machine, which works but clients connecting to it cannot connect to anything hosted on the host itself...
(And the whole reason I have wireguard setup like this is because I couldn't figure out how to setup the wg-quick app, it just refuses to work for unknown to me reasons... and by "work" I mean that the WG clients just cannot connect to it, the webui itself works).
The VMs are set with Virtio as their NIC and truenas itself is set to a static IP and can connect to everything else...
Any help would be appreciated...
[SOLUTION]
This is gonna be a quick overview on how to fix this issue, as it seems to be fairly common. You can find more detailed instructions here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/truenas-scale-ultimate-home-setup-incl-tailscale/186444
Scroll down to the section titled “Oh but wait”
Note: This problem cannot be fixed through neither the webui, web shell, nor SSH, you need to have physical access to the machine, a display adapter and a monitor to display the TUI on.
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From the cli menu, go to "Configure network interfaces"
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Remove DHCP/Any other static alias you have on your main interface by either pressing delete on it or by manually going to it and deleting it, just leave the alias field blank and ipv4_dhcp to "No", then click on Save
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Create a new interface by bressing "n", select type 'BRIDGE", set name to "br0" (without the quotes) and either enable DHCP or add the IP alias that you previously removed from your main interface as an alias here and click on Save
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Back on the main "Configure network interfaces screen" press "a" to save changes, then "p" to make them permanent (again without the quotes).
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At this point, your network should drop out and you shouldn't be able to connect to the WebUI. Reboot the system and everything should work properly again!
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That's it! Problem solved. Now you should go and change the NICs of the VMs to use the new br0 and they should able to connect to the truenas host just fine.
I've been trying to setup pivpn on alpine, but it keeps complaining about some iptables rules not being set, requiring me to run pivpn -d each time the system is started to fix it...
I don't get it, every post here that isn't about Linux or some serious topic seems to get downvoted to hell.
I like Linux as much as the next guy, but c'mon, not everything here has to be about it or serious topics...
I recently got a few (5) hard drives to turn my home server into a NAS with trueNAS scale and my idea is to have 4 usable and 1 for redundancy, my question is... How does RAID work, like what is RAID 0, RAID 5, software RAID etc, and does any of that even matter for my use case?
I've got a Dell G3 3579 that's in a dire need of a battery and a bottom panel replacement. I've thought of buying them off aliexpress, but I'm a bit skeptical of it... So ig my question is whether it's OK to buy stuff like replacement laptop batteries off aliexpress.
E: I've checked, amazon does not ship to my country... I'm also technically asking if anyone knows any trusted good replacement battery manufacturers that I should look for...
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OS: You can see it... do I need to type it here?
DE: Plasma (Wayland)
Panel: the plasma panel
Programs shown: Dolphin (file manager), neofetch (fancy Ascii art on the terminal)
Plasma theme: Fluent
Kvantum theme: Fluent-dark-green
Icons: Papirus
Background image: image
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Yeah, can't really explain why either...
#* /dev/nvme0n1p4 LABEL=Gentoo_ROOT UUID=1904b32b-44e0-47c0-9896-f2a72462ba35 / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1
#* /dev/nvme0n1p5 UUID=da7160d5-2c7b-4dee-99a2-f77fd94fd50c /home ext4 rw,relatime 0 2
#* /dev/nvme0n1p6 LABEL=GENTOO_BOOT UUID=3549-4E88 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2
^^Work
#* /dev/sdb3 LABEL=2TB\134x20HDD\134x20P2 UUID=3abcc113-850d-4e7a-88fb-f183907b3b55 /run/media/presi300/2TB\134x5cx20HDD\134x5cx20P2 ext4 auto,rw,relatime 0 2
#* /dev/sdc1 UUID=35bb39b3-650d-45d5-bf13-795edf483ca2 /run/media/presi300/35bb39b3-650d-45d5-bf13-795edf483ca2 ext4 auto,rw,relatime 0 2
#* /dev/sdb1 LABEL=2TBP1 UUID=0c9f4f41-5129-4829-8666-c1c7ee6b0ff0 /run/media/presi300/2TBP1 ext4 auto,rw,relatime 0 2
#* /dev/sda1 LABEL=1TB UUID=199a489b-a592-4546-9b38-8ba1f0365a34 /run/media/presi300/1TB ext4 auto,rw,relatime 0 2
^^Ignored
I've tried changing pretty much everything in /etc/fstab to no effect, another weird thing is that the system can boot without /etc/fstab being present... Though only the ROOT partition gets mounted. Any Ideas? (Ignore the *s, they are so that the # appears instead of lemmy enlarging the text)
Recently, I've been wanting to make a custom live iso with a couple of tools that I need but I really don't know where to start or what to do... any help?
E: I didn't phrase my post correctly, I need a portable set of desktop tools for development, running on the gnome desktop
I've had a "home lab server" for a while now, it's nothing special but I think I can do more with it, I just don't know what to do with it... I currently use it just for a pihole and (sometimes) a Minecraft server or a web server... I used to also have a nexcloud and a searxng instance (which I will probably bring back)... Any ideas for other things I can run on it?
I know that there is a copr repo, but that copr repo seems to have been abandoned as it's stuck on linux 6.1...
This is a genuine question, as every time I have an argument about this with someone they bring a point so utterly stupid that it leaves me stumped...
