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For awhile I had debated getting it installed. And honestly a part of me still might want to. But I've finally come to terms with the distro not mattering as much as one thinks it does. There is no perfect. There is only the one with the least problems. So Debian it is at this point. At this point I...

I'd like to reinforce that this works for all kinds of things. As long as your config .folders and .files are separate you can do this with any and all data. some stuff though like flatpak .var and .steam folders will need to be fully bind mounted though. they don't seem to work correctly with a sym...

While I can't and won't claim to know how the Debian mirrors work I can say that for Arch sometimes the mirrors don't work correctly. Seems quite rare but a few times when I've done various installs while distro hopping I've had to adjust my available mirrors because they just timeout repeatedly. Po...

You are correct. For the average user the official upgrade guide is a mess. Many steps, some seemingly pointless. But you must remember it is written for people running production systems where there is no room for error. How valuable your uptime is is what determines how many of those steps you sho...

A couple years ago I bought a machine on Craigslist for 80 bucks US. CPU: quad core Intel Xeon E31225 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 1598/1600/3400 MHz Kernel: 6.1.0-18-amd64 x86_64 Up: 14d 1h 41m Mem: 1806.3/15700.6 MiB (11.5%) This thing has been running my media collection for the past 4 or 5 years now. ...

All of that data seems relatively unchanging. As such I'd suggest a simple rsync on a schedule would be quite sufficient. How often really depends on how much is added to it on a regular basis. You can do it via a systemd service or cron, either way. In the case of the docker data I personally like ...

Maybe in the next stable release. Maybe not. Depends on how fast stuff gets squashed. Debian is not known for the latest and greatest. It is known for reliable software that doesn't give you to many surprises. Nothing stopping you from getting the source and trying to build it. Make a good backup fi...

While it may not be advisable I just create a PATH in my /etc/environment file
This eliminates the entire issue. But it's not the proper way to go so do it at your own risk.

I wish I had known that learning programming when you are 42 is much harder than when you are a teenager. Instead I spent time playing games on the computer. I could be much further along if I had started learning back then.

I used to do folding. I was to busy wasting my time with games to get into mining while it was profitable. Somewhere I have instructions for pxe booting folding clients via ltsp. But financially it's difficult to keep up with the power draw. The big coin like Bit and Eth are out of range for small t...

With all due respect while Debian does the best it can to keep free software and non free separate there is entirely too many ways stuff can get in. They can't catch every single one of them. The only way you can get what you seem to want (by the essence of the thread) is to build your own from LFS ...

Perhaps they're aware of how mistreated they are by their software and feel powerless to change it, so they seek to sabotage others who achieve any greater success in "leaving the bucket". By spreading FUD and belittling solutions or those who suggest them. Or maybe they are tired of Linu...

While I don't work in the field a Linux desktop is no different than a Linux server, only with a gui added to it. So any common tool will work. Ansible for one, Puppet, there are quite a few options. I tinkered with something called Foreman a long time ago but it was far to involved for what I neede...

I know I'm not the longest serving Linux user by any remote measure but this is the first time I've personally ever heard of doas. As such if it's somewhat recent it will need to be proven for quite a time before Debian would make it any kind of default I'd think. If it's not recent then I'm curious...

Debian Wheezy is actually where I started my Linux experience. It was the first one that worked on my apparently odd combination of hardware at the time. Almost nothing else would boot much less actually install and be usable. Debian may not be as user friendly as something like Ubuntu or Mint. But ...

It kind of makes sense, since Debian isnt rolling release model. But it seems like a huge pain to upgrade in this way. What I mostly dont like about rolling release, is that you have to upgrade all the packages when installing anything. Like when I was just running an Arch based distro in Virt Mana...

Don't think I saw this suggested. Set them up with a Raid1 Mdadm array. Then you will have redundancy. That or span an LVM volume across them both. If you use each for specific partitions you will have a truckload of wasted space.

For what it's worth there is nothing inherently wrong with flatpaks or snaps. They are far from ideal if you want to learn the *nix way of course. They are very much like a Windows package, all bundled together. But sometimes they are a necessary evil. In my case Bottles works where repo Wine doesn'...

If pure non free is such a big deal then Debian can't default to be a "Universal Operating System". Go find another distro. Simple answer. Fork Debian if you have to. But don't expect the Universal Operating System to default to unusable for the average user. It just doesn't make sense. Yo...

In a way they work as shared libraries. Other flatpak packages that depend on those won't re-download them. Rather will use the existing ones. I'm not sure shared libraries is the right way to say it, but it's similar.