Comment on It's Hard to Stay Motivated

• SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re better than me

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    • SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I didn’t mean it that way.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t think proxmox is great if you don’t know Linux yet. It’s an additional tool to understand. But I do regret not getting into proxmox earlier, since it makes trying new things so much easier.

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• cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You forgot “sudo”! Try again

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  • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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