I have to admit I like the concept of rootless containers very much.

Thank you for the recommendation. I am checking it out now.

I would consider myself a very beginning docker user so I’ve a long way to go but I can see, given that I am a beginner, it might make sense to pivot now to Podman.

What about Void are you liking?

I have a Dell OptiPlex 7050 micro with 16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. All it’s doing is running OpenBSD as my firewall and router. But it is doing some complex routing and traffic shaping and queueing. It’s also a VPN termination point for the WireGuard tunnel between my cloud VPS and home network. My cloud VPS is, in this case, a reverse proxy.

I get the appeal of the single board computer but it never held much interest for me. That could possibly be because my manual dexterity isn’t that good and I found the assembly side of the SBC to be daunting. I’ve been more interested in using the tiny form factor Dell Wyse and Lenovo micro machines.

Shout out to fellow Arch person!

In your defense, the installation is a rather terse process. But once you’ve mastered it, you’ll find that you can install Arch in 1/2 the time that it takes to get other Linux distros installed.

All kinds of great stuff in AUR and much of it more up to date than a lot of other distros packaging systems.

Arch rocks!

I’ve actually had a much harder time troubleshooting Windows because everything is kind of hidden behind an abstraction layer, i.e. the GUI. The event manager often throws inscrutable error messages and searches based on the error code often come up with patently wrong solutions. To hell with Windows!

I am hoping something got misinterpreted here because this could spell some bad news.

Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 … I mean you’ve got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.

At the end of this month, I will be at 2.5 months completely on Linux. The only thing stopping me was simply not knowing that Steam and Proton existed for Linux. I can play the games that matter to me on Linux. Good riddance to Windows!

Virtual Desktops haven’t really been a thing that I’ve really needed in my work flow. Maybe one day I will give using one a shot. I actually prefer my current setup with dual 27" monitors.

I think people are generally missing the point that this was intended to be humorous. I know I got a chuckle out of it.

This seems like a wise move for the time being. I am an Alma fan and supporter so I get that the foundation is trying to do everything it can to stay relevant.

Arch Linux is my go-to distro because I can literally install it in half the time that it takes a lot of others. I also like that it is very lightweight.

Have you thought about standing up a Mastodon or Calckey instance and participating in the twitter-like side of the fediverse?

Timeshift is nice to make things easy. I simply use good old-fashioned rsync tied to a cron job.