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thiccdiccnicc
thiccdiccnicc @ thiccdiccnicc @sh.itjust.works
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Advice for a middle-age, moderately pc knowledgeable person to finally switch to or become proficient with Linux?

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  • Absolutely! Dual booting on a work machine running AV software. Sounds like a nightmare just waiting to happen..... It'll break when you least expect it and your client is gonna flip shit.

    VM is definitely the way to go. Give it max resources and run it full screen until you get a secondary tinkering tool or succumb to WSL

    • It feels just like home here

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  • "The narwhal bacons at midnight heh"

    • What are YOU self-hosting?

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  • On 3 Rpis and a NAS around my home:

    • Nextcloud - Google replacement
    • Actual Budget - YNAB type server that's super simple and meets my needs
    • Apache web server - portal to my projects
    • PiHole - DNS pass/allow list
    • PiVPN - Allows me to connect to my home VPN when abroad
    • 2009Scape - A little RuneScape Private Server I turn on and off on my desktop when I'd like to afk at work
    • Docker - A couple docker instances - one on my test pi I use to roll out onto my "prod" servers
    • Backup server - 14TB backup with an offsite copy :D
    • Joplin - Note-taking app - barely a server connected through Nextcloud
    • Plex - Everyone knows about Plex - I'm thinking of switching to JellyFin
    • rtorrent - kinda old-school compared to the *arr programs but I enjoy manually downloading all my media :)

    Hope I'm not forgetting any!