Yeah that’s been my least favourite experience with Lemmy.

Many replies are hostile and highly opinionated.

I don’t have an answer for your question but it was a good question and it made me curious.

I’m in favour of domestic production but I would always want more information about it.

Dial it back a bit. Many drug dealers are just trying to earn a living and many sell high quality safe products responsibly.

Most drug dealers I know have in fact never carried a whale carcass home.

Perhaps more complex then what you’re hoping for.

But consider taking a look at hyprland. I’ve been very impressed with how modular and smooth this window manager is

I strongly recommend EndeavourOS. You’ll have more flexibility to experiment with different setups and greater access to software.

So I use reverse proxies etc with my containers for others services

But KeePass with rsync is easier for passwords. I just use termux on my phone

I recommend using a docker container, they make the whole thing painless and easy.

I think the Linuxserver.io one is what I used from memory.

Yeah if this is for a small number of users, I would recommend wireguard or tailgate.

Port forwarding is asking for trouble.

Nobodies defending anything. You’re just a troll seeking to stir trouble.

Blocked.

What is wrong with you? There’s no need to sexualise children like that, tone it down.

The poster made a fair point, this is indeed a cultural phenomena not reflected by Japanese media. Which is surprising because they typically don’t pull punches.

Sounds like PGP keys?

Yeah I hear that, good point.

Arch has great documentation but also a bit more config.

I would vote for Fedora over debian though. Debian packages are so far out of date that it becomes a pain and copr works quite well.

Well, I can only offer my experience.

I teach programming and Mathematics full-time and I’ve been doing so for the last few years. I must use 20 different machines every semester.

Every single time, windows users cannot install python, they cannot install latex, SQL etc. And of course every single time the machine is riddled with garbage and just opening the start menu takes seconds. It’s probably more correlation than causation, but students on Linux always perform better In the course.

Mac Users certainly have it better but installing basic software (git, fish, ripgrep, neovim etc. ) is still quite challenging.

Much of the teaching staff have been using Linux for the past 5 to 20 years and probably have not relied on Windows since maybe 95/xp/2000 (my old supervisor started on Solaris apparently 🤷)

We sit there amazed that anybody would use this. It runs like shit, It’s riddled with ads, installing software is painful, most software isn’t packaged for it (exceptions being subscription-based software like Adobe), it’s a privacy nightmare and of course you have to pay for the bloody thing.

I guess my point is, maybe you find Linux more difficult than Windows because you’ve been using Windows for the past 20 years and so you’re approaching it from a different perspective.

From our perspective, we could go back to Windows and wouldn’t struggle with the technical side of things too much, but there is no doubt that it’s an inferior experience.

Tbf, this is more HP failing to support their hardware than a failure in Linux to be more flexible and performant.

Yeah as others have said, HP does not have a great reputation for laptops and stuff.

Grab a cheap ThinkPad, they usually work very well.

I started on Linux as a kid and let me tell you, being curious about windows, welp that’s been horrific.

Curious in this case is a strong term, quite a few of my students are on Windows and that OS is a mess. I don’t care much for apple but at least MacBooks work.

If it’s just a server, Alpine and docker will do most things with good reliability and security.

Otherwise I’ve actually always used void and arch. While those aren’t typical choices for a server, it shows that it’s hard to go wrong.

Choose a distribution that appeals to you and it’ll work great.

For this use case, alpine sounds good.

Yeah I think if I looked deeper into it I could have got it a bit leaner.

But it was simply easier to use distrobox and share the image.

I totally agree that nix is a more elegant solution to the problem though.

See also Inkscape.

Doesn’t quite fit OPs want of self hosted, but still very good.

There is also Asymptote and tikz for more technical stuff.

In terms of recommended distros, I would say have a look at endeavourOS.

A nice compromise between the abstraction of eg Ubuntu and the technical requirements of eg Arch.

I’ve recommended this distribution to quite a few new users to great success.

Nix is really useful as well. But it’s not always a one-for-one replacement.

One problem I hit with nix is the size, after adding latex and a few other related packages, The install time took a very long time And the amount of space consumed was over 150 GB.

It wasn’t too bad because I was able to put it on a compressed ZFS data set but it wasn’t great. Whereas distrobox and podman built quicker, had a smaller size and it was easier to move the image between machines.

The other issue I hit with it was having to set environment variables for QT.

Definitely a nice piece of software just a little rough around the edges.

I suppose that’s my point. I have tried alternatives and many are good for many things but Docker works for all things.

But Docker is a bit of a sledgehammer approach by packaging a whole operating system.