CommanderShepard
@CommanderShepard@lemmy.world
- Comment on Docker is not available in RHEL10 5 days ago:
Agreed. Setting up an NFS share is a mess with Podman
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 5 days ago:
If you are willing to learn, then you can check Linux laptops from Framework, Tuxedo and Entroware. Linux preinstalled, and hardware is compatible.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 6 days ago:
OK, really good article and I like Libreoffice (although I prefer Only office). I browse on it, game, watch videos, do pretty much everything. I am also a technical person, who can create a VM in 10 mins, add a required boot parameter, etc.
Now. I want to send this article to my colleague/friend who’s not technical at all. In the blog post I read
Start by testing Linux and LibreOffice on a second partition of your PC (for individuals)
“Second partition” literally means nothing to most people. I know: just learn, just read. But most people will not bother, or they will simply not understand the tutorials. That’s the unfortunate reality.
I think Linux and Libreoffice can become mainstream if a regular Joe/Jane can buy a laptop from Walmart with a distro and office apps pre-installed and use them like Microsoft Office. Before that time all this Linux and FLOSS stuff is limited to technical, or at least curious people willing to put some effort.
P.S. My relatives are on Linux and Onlyoffice, because I installed it for them. And it’s so much easier and more rare for me to manage and troubleshoot than Windows. But I cannot see them installing it be themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I personally just pointed Coreelec to my NFS share… I tried Jellyfin for Kodi and Jellycon and they are quite unstable (at least a few months ago). If I pause a video, and the restart, it was guaranteed to exit the stream after a couple of minutes. Sometimes, it would not sync properly, so if I finished an episode, it was not guaranteed that the day after it’s marked as “Watched”. On the other hand, Coreelec + NFS works flawlessly.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 1 month ago:
I just set up keepalived with a virtual IP. Nebula sync syncs them once a day. Dead simple and has been working for ages.
- Comment on Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout 2 months ago:
Sadly, it still has a lot of rough edges for an average computer user. Quite a few games do not work out of the box, and require some setting up
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 2 months ago:
I installed it after breaking my Debian several times. Now, I just need to make sure I don’t bork my Proxmox :)
But that’s easy because I have nested proxmox with an isolated network backed by OPNsense. So I can break it as much as I’d like.
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 2 months ago:
Try Proxmox or some other supervisor. Also learn about cloud images and cloud-init. It’ll take seconds to spin up a new machine from scratch. And you can experiment as much as you want and break stuff. You can even create an isolated network withing Proxmox itself with Onpnense and nested Proxmox to mess around with networking.
I don’t touch my home prod when I want to test some new service.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 7 months ago:
Most people don’t care or even know that it is AI/ad-infested. I’ve seen people just fighting through pop-up on multiple websites they use. When ci fronted by me, they just said that they have “tunnel vision” and don’t care.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 8 months ago:
Ideally, the project should not require any documentation to read.
Yep, I know, I think everyone should read to learn, but I’ve seen so many times peoples’ spark die once I tell them “I will send you the docs with clear instructions. If you have any questions, let me know :)”. The reply is often " Oh, but it should tell me where to click".
Or maybe it’s because the docs are too difficult, I don’t know.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 8 months ago:
Bitwarden is a very convenient password manager for an average computer user. It’s very straightforward and easy to use.
I can see some bias here of the people who say “o, just use KeePass and sync the database over some cloud provider”. What of there conflicts? How do they deal with them? I can figure it our but most people I know, won’t.
Even the password manager concept is a complicated concept to grasp for many people (that I know). And I can recommend them Bitwarden because it’s relatively easy, but KeePass with sync? Maybe, if I commit to actively help them with it.
P.S. I’ve convinced several people to try out Linux, and they are willing to learn it, but even if they just need to use a browser, they struggle sometimes. I can’t imagine them syncing the KeePass database.