I got into zsh because there was all this flashy oh my zsh stuff. But I am thinking of moving back to bash, because GPL and liberty. I don't really use all the fancy zsh addons or whatever. And I don't do enough advanced scripting stuff to notice the difference. I've also heard fish has a lot of useful features.
I'm not an admin but someone else here pointed out that this would probably be a bad choice for an admin. You can't just go installing whatever toys you prefer on every system, especially if it isn't yours. An admin has to be very comfortable with standard tools. Maybe more like a developer (which I'm also not) who spends a lot of time on one system which they control.
I've been using xfce for years and I'm barely ever even tempted to give anything else a go. xfce is the perfect DE for me and I just stumbled into it. Maybe you stumbled in to your perfect shell.
The GUI is "graphical user interface". The cli is "command line interface".
In the GUI you have different DEs/DMs/WMs and people have strong feeling about them. Even though you can execute commands in all of them about equally Ya?
edit: wtf the word "a w e s o m e " is converted into ৻( •̀ ᗜ •́ ৻) when I paste or type it. Is this coming from kbin or have I installed something weird on my computer?
FYI the glinet routers come with a version of openwrt that contains unknown closed-source components. That said they have nicer, easier to use interface that has no learning curve. So less of a project than many of the other options discussed here. It'll work out of the box.
I use free, donation and paid services happily. Not against any model.
I do not think paid services are as stable as you are imagining. Lots of paid services go dark all the time. Even major ones.
I think the most stable would be to either run your own or pay someone to run one for you on a VPS. And for community stability, donate to various servers.
For long term, government/nonprofit funding would be good to have I think.
if you run a router on a computer like you suggest, can you also do other stuff with the computer like file serving? or is it a single function device for reasons of security or system resources?
because when you load any page listing posts, you don't want your server to have to go and download the actual entire comment thread for every post that is listed. And then have to go and count how many there are.
Because it would be slow, especially with multiple servers involved. Every time you loaded your home page or a community the server would have to start from scratch gathering the data. It would be more accurate but it would be very hard. And not give a lot of extra value.
So it's more efficient to have a piece of data attached to the post that just reports the number of comments. Same way as there is a piece of data that contains the title, the name of the person who posted it etc. And that value is updated in some way. Apparently in a way that has not yet been perfected. :)
I got into zsh because there was all this flashy oh my zsh stuff. But I am thinking of moving back to bash, because GPL and liberty. I don't really use all the fancy zsh addons or whatever. And I don't do enough advanced scripting stuff to notice the difference. I've also heard fish has a lot of useful features.
I'm not an admin but someone else here pointed out that this would probably be a bad choice for an admin. You can't just go installing whatever toys you prefer on every system, especially if it isn't yours. An admin has to be very comfortable with standard tools. Maybe more like a developer (which I'm also not) who spends a lot of time on one system which they control.
I've been using xfce for years and I'm barely ever even tempted to give anything else a go. xfce is the perfect DE for me and I just stumbled into it. Maybe you stumbled in to your perfect shell.