Different times when people actually had time to properly do things and had fun on their jobs. Nowadays…

Welcome to modern operating systems, apps, browsers, websites… just buy a high-dpi 30" screen :D

I don’t really get this type of “media” bullshit articles. Yes, Windows is becoming progressively worse with more annoyances but you also have more simple to use tools than ever to disable those annoyances in bulk.

For the average user is far simpler to just run W10 Privacy, CTT or some other tool to disable all the annoying Windows features than it is to move to Linux and face all the major pain points people usually have around software compatibility and missing xyz very specific that isn’t really the same thing under Linux.

There you go, fixed the Windows problem for you in a few clicks, no need to download an entire new OS and complain afterwards.

The price lol yet another scam. Like the first version.

Waiting for something similar for the Dreamcast 😂

In the same order you asked:

Safe, easy to use, polished and reliable ; Someone else tried to emulate the first one success ; Poorly executed open-source alternative you can selfhost.

All of them speak the git and are essentially web UIs made to manage it and the creation of repositories and setting up permissions.

Some people can’t because they need updated proofing tools and that version no longer has updates.

I love how journalism is all garbage, even the one around technology. It just took a bunch of declarations and suddenly Meta/FB is the target to avoid and cancel. As if there weren’t many more and much better reasons to NOT use those platforms than this simple and expected political realignment.

Well, the problem is… they did: https://developer.arm.com/Architectures/Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

But then came along the Pi guys that should’ve implemented an UEFI to push the market into that direction but never did.

The new Snapdragon X machines actually seem to have UEFIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Damzgq5Bg&t=978s&pp=2AHSB5ACAQ%3D%3D

But we need more, tablets with open boot and drivers are important.

Yet another year, yet another “this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop”.

What would make Linux actually work out was if GNOME got their shit together instead of wasting time and resources on pointless stuff. Another big thing with Linux would be if someone could get some vendor like Lenovo to open all their ARM tablets, implement an UEFI like they should have from the start and provide basic drivers.

Linux is useless for the majority of regular users, at least for work, because you don’t have xyz proprietary software, however it could work out well as a home machine for web surfing and simple documents. People would probably be happy to buy cheap ~200$ tablets from Lenovo and get a full desktop experience from those.

Flatpak doesn’t have an “ask for permission” system afaik, at least not standardized.

Exactly, and that’s precisely the reason why it’s still not a viable solution for the average user. This a big problem and a problem of consistent and integration between Flatpak , GNOME, KDE etc.

Sure, just try to get a password manager to communicate with a browser both on Flatpaks. Things like that should work, that’s what people expect, or at least should prompt the user for permission to communicate like Apple does.

Yeah, Apple, but at the same time and unlike GNOME and Flatpak Apple actually did a decent implementation of system containers for applications that doesn’t result in barely usable applications.

Well, this solves nothing. I don’t really know what’s going on with Thunderbird but it is looking like a piece of crap, the latest UI changes made it worse, a few months after the other revision that was actually much more visually pleasing. Is it that hard to look at what others do instead of adding random boxes everywhere?

Anyways, the worst part is that right now Thunderbird wastes more RAM than RoundCube running inside a browser with the Calendars and Contacts plugins. Makes no sense.

Well… If you’re running a modern version of Proxmox then you’re already running LXC containers so why not move to Incus that is made by the same people?

Proxmox (…) They start off with stock Debian and work up from there which is the way many distros work.

Proxmox has been using Ubuntu’s kernel for a while now.

Now, if Proxmox becomes toxic

Proxmox is already toxic, it requires a payed license for the stable version and updates. Furthermore the Proxmox guys have been found to withhold important security updates from non-stable (not paying) users for weeks.

My little company has a lot of VMware customers and I am rather busy moving them over. I picked Proxmox (Hyper-V? No thanks) about 18 months ago when the Broadcom thing came about and did my own home system first and then rather a lot of testing.

If you’re expecting the same type of reliably you’ve from VMware on Proxmox you’re going to have a very hard time soon. I hope not, but I also know how Proxmox works.

I run Promox since 2009 and until very recently, professionally, in datacenters, multiple clusters around 10-15 nodes each which means that I’ve been around for all wins and fails of Proxmox. I saw the raise and fall of OpenVZ, the subsequent and painful move to LXC and the SLES/RHEL compatibility issues.

While Proxmox works most of the time and their payed support is decent I would never recommend it to anyone since Incus became a thing. The Promox PVE kernel has a lot of quirks, for starters it is build upon Ubuntu’s kernel – that is already a dumpster fire of hacks waiting for someone upstream to implement things properly so they can backport them and ditch their own implementations – and then it is a typically older version so mangled and twisted by the extra features garbage added on top.

I got burned countless times by Proxmox’s kernel. Broken drivers, waiting months for fixes already available upstream or so they would fix their own bugs. As practice examples, at some point OpenVPN was broken under Proxmox’s kernel, the Realtek networking has probably been broken for more time than working. ZFS support was introduced only to bring kernel panics. Upgrading Proxmox is always a shot in the dark and half of the time you get a half broken system that is able to boot and pass a few tests but that will randomly fail a few days later.

Proxmox’s startup is slow, slower than any other solution – it even includes management daemons that are there just there to ensure that other daemons are running. Most of the built-in daemons are so poorly written and tied together that they don’t even start with the system properly on the first try.

Why keep dragging all of the Proxmox overhead and potencial issues, if you can run a clean shop with Incus, actually made by the same people who make LXC?

You may not want to depend on those cloud services and if you need something not static, doesn’t cut it.

Why only email? Why not also a website? :)

“self-hosting both private stuff, like a NAS and also some other is public like websites and whatnot”

Some people do it and to be fair a website is way simpler and less prone to issues than mail.

If you did you would know I wasn’t looking for advice. You also knew that exposing stuff publicly was a prerequisite.

Proxmox will not switch to Incus, they like their epic pile of hacks. However you can switch to Debian + Incus and avoid that garbage all together.

That’s a good setup with multiple IP, but still you’ve a single firewall that might be compromised somehow if someone get’s access to the “public” machine. :)