MiddledAgedGuy

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[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

Obsfucation can help stimey scripts. I saw using a non-standard port mentioned.

You can also setup a reverse proxy to deliver a different, empty site to a different dns entry by default. Use either a completely separate (as opposed to multidomain) cert for each, or a wildcard cert.

Jellyfin also supports using a custom path, instead of delivering at the root. Your reverse proxy would need to be configured accordingly.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 20 points 9 months ago

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

I agree with this opinion.

... you should never retire.

I'd retire tomorrow if I had the financial security to do so.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I read it was Pokémon like and wrote it off. I've tried to but never enjoyed Pokémon. I grew up on jrpg's so you'd think that was right up my alley. But I disgress...

The comments here paint a more complex story. It honestly still doesn't seem like my type of game, but my curiosity is piqued. I'll check it out.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

I came here to make a similar comment. In KDE just use.. I could swear it was ctrl+alt+arrow key but a quick search tells me it's meta+arrow key (currently on my phone) to tile windows if I want. Quarter or half sceen tiling works for me so I'm content with that. OP didn't specifically say dynamic tiling so perhaps one of these methods will be sufficient for OP?

I'll check out that tiling feature mentioned above, I wasn't aware of it and am curious!

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'd like confirmation on this as well, if there's confirmation to be had.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

You are. Reformat and install the first hardware compatible distro you find on https://distro.moe/ right now. Don't think too much about it, just do it! /s, probably?

If checking out a different distro sounds interesting and/or fun then you should. If not, then don't. Whatever way you Linux is the correct way for you.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Genocide? That some new brand of energy drink?

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

That's fair. It's good to educate on these things.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I knew about Redhat's recent bad behavior, I somehow missed that IBM owns Redhat. So TIL.

I dropped Fedora in light of recent news but I'm not OP. They can decide for themselves on that. If OP or anyone is interested in learning more, a search for RHEL source paywall will get you there.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Stick with your distro and try Gnome. Fedora is pretty high up there on the "just works" category.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

My time I'd normally use for gaming has gone in to starting to learn FreeCAD, which I guess I could argue is an open world builder game.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

TL;DR: Ubuntu. Because I want choices.

Ubuntu. And I've felt that way for a long time, so it's not something recentish like snaps.

I don't want my distro to decide what DE and software I'm using for me. They used to have a minimal iso which gave you, as the name suggests, a very minimal install. But now their minimal image is meant for containerized stuff and if memory serves comes with some extra cruft for that purpose.

I got annoyed and I left. And every distro I've tried since, even if I didn't stick with it, I liked better.

To add some constructiveness, as that's just complaining. That can be a good thing, just depends on the user. If they want the crafted experience Ubuntu provides, then it's a good pick. It's just not for me.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I've happily been a Fedora user for many years now, but RHEL's recent choice to put their source code behind a paywall has me pondering ethical considerations of my distro choice.

It's my understanding that this doesn't have a direct impact on Fedora, and I feel confident that it will continue to be a great distro for the foreseeable future, but I want the commercial/enterprise/corporate influence on the distro I run to be as minimal as possible. For it to be as free as possible.

With that in mind, what distros would everyone recommend?

I only have recent-ish experience with Fedora, Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu. I don't really know much about any others.

Ideally, I'd like it to fit within these boxes as well:

  • Reasonable release cycle time. Debian as an example tends to be too stale by it's nature. Edit for clarification: doesn't have to be bleeding edge, just don't want to fight with outdated dependencies if I'm compiling something from source. I feel distros generally ride this line well, but I've run into a handful of times in the past with Debian.
  • Doesn't try too hard to be user friendly. Obsfucating system internals, forcing a specific DE on you, that kind of thing.
  • Not overly time consuming to maintain. Arch would be an example of that in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, Arch is awesome. But maintaining a rolling release and a bunch of AUR's gets tiresome.
  • Doesn't try to force you to use a flatpaks, snaps, etc.

Seeing it all written out, that's pretty picky. And maybe this unicorn distro doesn't exist. But on the other hand, maybe it does.

A final thought. I know Debian has a testing branch. Anyone have any experience using that as a daily driver? Is it viable?

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