Comment on It's Hard to Stay Motivated

baduhai@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  also Ubuntu will add more complexity to things, Debian will cover most of what you need.

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  • Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wish I knew this before I started.

    But my headless Ubuntu is working now, so I am not changing it.

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    • DigitalWebSlinger@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Be me whose server is on Ubuntu 18.04 and needs upgrading to get Bluetooth into home assistant 😭

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• LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How so?

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  • SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Took maybe 5 minutes total to install paperless-ngx in docker on a Debian vm. No hassles, no headaches.

    The problem is trying to install tools built for Linux on Windows.

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    • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re better than me

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      • SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I didn’t mean it that way.

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      • towerful@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you have a spare computer, install proxmox on it.
        There are loads of tutorials how to do this, it has a good installer, after which it’s all a web based GUI.
        Use it to spin up VMs to your heart’s content, create scripts to automatically provision a new Ubuntu or Debian or whatever flavour. Or run up some Windows VMs. You can pass through GPUs and other devices (tho this can be difficult, again lots of tutorials out there).

        Be prepared to spend some time learning proxmox. It took me 2 or 3 installs to figure out the best way to set up networks, storage etc. Mostly cause I just jumped in, found something that could be better, googled that and found a useful tutorial on it so started again.
        But once proxmox is running, everything else become so much easier

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  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TECHNICALLY (yes, I’m fun at parties) you need 3 commands, as you also need to do an “apt update” after adding the repo. But we can chain commands of course. Do chained commands count as one? We could debate that for hours. Like why I prefer vi.

      My point? None really, just having fun.

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      • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You forgot “sudo”! Try again

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    • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve got Docker up and running, but getting anything to work witb in Docker or getting a machine to access the services that it says are running is a different story

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      • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This sounds like ports aren’t forwarded correctly. At least that’s a regular problem I have. ss -tunlp shows which ports are open and helps me often to find out if I’m just too dumb again ;D

        I do think that if you continue to set up services on Linux (with or without docker), you’ll get quickly to a point where setting up a new service takes only a few minutes.

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      • cestvrai@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have worked with Docker/WSL for a number of years and it is more difficult compared to Docker in Linux. There are a lot a unique quirks and bugs that are an absolute pain to deal with.

        Would not recommend for any relatively complex use case and certainly not for a server.

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