blackstrat

I'm not as advanced a user as you so clearly are. But when I looked at Garuda they insisted you use btrfs and had no option for anything else. Well fuck that shit. I'm not touching that horror show of a file system again. Why does it have to be so opinionated to force one specific file system. Nonsense.

I've been using Nextcloud for years and it has never performed well but I always put that down to my disks being slow.

It has gotten quicker over time, but not hugely.

I rarely use the web interface, I just use the mobile app to sync photos from my phone then everything on my network runs over NFS. It even that was a pain to get working with permissions with NC.

Now I want to try OC. I think the reason I went with NC was because it was meant to be the new and better developed OC after a bunch of OC devs left to form NC.

I saw my lecturers code. It was some of the worst code I've ever seen. If they'd written it in any company I've worked for over the last 20 years they'd have been sacked.

Most lecturers are more about the theory and computer science, not the practicalities of software engineering.

If you want to try Gentoo (you shouldn't) you need the fastest processor and most memory you can get.

I have a T440p I am happy with, but I run Endeavour and only use a terminal and a browser.

Systemd is free software. It's perfectly good. No one should care about init systems

Agree, powershell is great. Its powerful, easy to write, readable and object orientated, not stringly typed

Take out the religious aspect and it looks like a good OS for families and kids. Linux is lacking in the parental controls department compared to other systems so this is nice to see.

How do you block the DoH servers in the pihole? Pihole is a DNS server, devices using a third party DoH server would just bypass the pihole as they're using the IP of the DoH with no DNS lookup required. No?

To block DoH I think you need to block it at the firewall level with a list of blocked IPs for the DoH servers you want to block over 443

Best you can do is maintain a list of public DoH IPs and block them. Redirect all port 53 traffic to your own DNS server.

It's available to the end users - I.e. red hats customers. End users are who the GPL is there to help, not everyone on the planet.

I switched 100% away from Windows to Ubuntu with KDE. It was a good desktop OS, but I switched to a rolling release for desktop as that suits me better.

But for servers, Ubuntu, for me, is still king. It's so simple to use, the docs are great, there's always a guide for Ubuntu and it is so incredibly stable. It is just a totally solid rock of an OS and I can't see myself moving away from it for server use anytime soon.

As others have said, you OS is irrelevant. Windows would be no worse in this instance.

Instead, use a block list with your torrent software. Something like this: https://github.com/Naunter/BT_BlockLists/

And remember to keep it up to date.