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  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoLinux@programming.dev•How happy are you with your current distro?
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    24 days ago

    Because of all the nice feedback about OpenSUSE:
    SUSE was my first (bought) Linux distribution, at a time when I would have spent days downloading an ISO, SUSE was available with a manual in store. That was nice.

    But then I had an AVM Fritz! ISDN card and it was a complete shit show to get this working. Especially as YAST(2?) didn’t support the configuration I needed, but every time you opened it, it would overwrite your manual changes in some configuration files.
    (Edit: I’ll probably need to add, that this was like 25 years ago. So besides “fuck, I’m old”, my perspective in SUSE is very probably not up-to-date)

    After that I hopped through a few distros and mostly stayed with basic Debian.

    Nowadays I’m mostly using Manjaro (or just Arch itself, if I don’t need X), because I like the Arch package system and actually also the whole system architecture… Don’t exactly know what it is, but I feel much more at home.
    With apt I sometimes found myself in situations, where a fresh install will resolve things faster than trying to restore/save the system. With Arch I always was somehow able to restore everything.

    Can someone tell me how Tumbleweed differs/excels?
    Thanks in advance!
    Currently waiting for my new laptop (Framework 16 :-D) and that would be a nice opportunity to try something new.
    But as I need my device for work, it’s important to me, that I really have it under my control and am not depending on some half-baked configuration utility like YAST was.

    Edit: I’m also playing with the thought of moving to something immutable. NixOS looked nice in concept, but the more I read about it, the more I see that it’s more suitable for more server than my laptop - but maybe I’m wrong here, as I don’t have any hands-on experience

  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Laptop not working after installing nimdow
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    7 months ago

    As long as the laptop boots, you should be able to switch to a TTY console, where you have a complete shell interface to your system after logging in (in said TTY console). So, being greeted with a login screen or something is a win here - but you’re very vague in your report.

    The GUI is only just a program and has nothing to do with your boot options in BIOS or bootloader (like grub).

    Using CTRL-ALT-[F1-9/0] you can switch between your virtual consoles and on only one of them your GUI is running.
    You can use any other one to change anything on the system from CLI.
    You should also be able to stop the current GUI/X11 Session and directly start the window manager you wish - temporarily to fix your system, if you’re not confident in the CLI.

  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•I had a journey
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    9 months ago

    Just wait for the next stage as a libertarian socialist, without a leading communist party, because we can take care of us ourselves - it’s usually called anarchy (which doesn’t mean no social norms, just self-organisation without leadership)

  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why Personal Cloud Storage is so bad on Linux?
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    11 months ago

    If you need the online storage (or whatever self hosted service) just for yourself (and maybe some few people), it’s very simple to set up a Wireguard instance. My server doesn’t even show open ports to the outside world, but with Wireguard I can access my git, wiki, etc in my home LAN.
    I haven’t really tried any of the second tier Solutions like Tailscale. But when you have more users or a more complex environment, that could help.

    Still, sharing stuff with “outsiders” would still be tricky, I guess - at least I haven’t found a solution…