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  • first time using linux, how screwed am I?

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  • You're not screwed. Depends on how much you enjoy tinkering and troubleshooting.

    My main advice would be to keep your data backed up and completely disconnected from the PC. And make sure your machine is not critical (i.e. for working from home or something). Other than that you do what you want. If you want to dive deep in Arch then that's fine.

    One thing to know is that the important part relevant to you is: the desktop environment (KDE) and the Linux distro (Arch) are different things. The far more important thing for you is to have KDE.... the distro underneath just needs to not get in the way.

    If you've got Arch up and running then stick with it until it gives you trouble. I naturally ended up distro hopping in the beginning because I would catastrophically break something I couldn't repair and could change distros naturally when reinstalling.

    Good options for easy distros with KDE would be:

    1. Tuxedo OS (or Kubuntu) - easiest and there's lots of support online.
    2. Fredora - rock solid and highly recommend. Although I would recommend OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead, this got me hooked on Linux and was the least problematic for a bleeding edge updated distro, where I happily used Discover for installing and updating.
    3. CachyOS - good option for sticking with Arch.

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • Thanks. I do know almost all those commands, but I'm not quite comfortable with using konsole/SSH exclusively yet. KDE is what I'm most familiar with from my desktop PC and I thought it would be easier to set up knowing where settings etc are. Also I use a Guacamole Docker app to access the server's desktop (my personal machine) when I need to do some personal task while at work. That may change as I get better at this and learn more.

    Edit: I don't want to mess with the server now, but I'll try to put LXQT at some point to save some resources. I don't trust myself to remove KDE cleanly and install a different a different DE without destroying the setup.

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • Notes app is a good idea. I might have a look at options.

    Actual is working really well for me for budgeting.

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • What are you running on your server? I'm looking for more ideas.

    I've got loads of stuff up and running, but now it is all quietly functional and I'm withdrawing from the enjoyment if setting up something new. I've recently had to delete a couple of Docker apps which weren't really very useful for me, but I enjoyed setting them up and liked seeing a long list of healthy containers in Dockge.

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Tetris Party for the Wii

    Blast Off for the PSP

    Both emulated on a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro. Just been getting into emulation properly over the past few months and I've been loving playing retro games.

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • I'm new to all this.

    Synology: I was using Synology before and getting started with trying some Docker containers. The Synology was very underpowered and containers kept crashing or being shut down (from resources running out I guess) so I wanted to upgrade.

    Comments seemed to suggest it is best to keep the Synology as purely a NAS and use a mini PC for compute, so that's what I went for. Got a 12th Gen Intel mini PC pretty cheap on eBay to play around with.

    Debian - I've put Debian with KDE on the mini PC server. I was looking into TrueNAS or Unraid to consist what I should try learning. My brother (rightly) said there's no reason to over complicate things when I don't need functions of those OS and don't understand them. The one place the Linux community seems to be united is in recommending Debian for a server for being rock solid and stable. I've been very happy with it.

    Spent my week off figuring out Docker, mounting NAS drives on the server PC, troubleshooting the problems. Got a setup I'm really happy with and I'm really happy I went with Debian.

  • Can magnet damage hard disk?

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  • I wouldn't expect it to. I think mythbusters did an episode on this, and it took the strength of one of those car lifting magnet cranes to damage an HDD.

  • Desktop app for Lemmy?

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  • Linux is becoming more appealing for gamers – here's why

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  • No one is saying Windows has no problems.

  • Linux is becoming more appealing for gamers – here's why

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  • Tough to swallow pills for the Linux community: Linux is not for normies.

    I agree with you completely. I'll advocate for Linux everyday. My Steam Deck converted me. My gaming PC is great with CachyOS. I've just finished setting up my Debian server. I'm really getting into this.

    But the truth is that this shit is not for normies. And now there are going to be a torrent of replies saying "but it worked fine for me, so your experience is invalid".

  • How can i casual gamer enter a game online competition?

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  • Fighting games are great for this. Street Fighter 6 is great (and the biggest). But there are others (Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Guilty Gear, Super Smash Bros, loads more and more upcoming new ones). Fighting games have usually have local clubs/events where you can play casual matches. They'll also do local tournaments, and there will be bigger regional and national competitions to find. But it's a great starting experience to go to a local tournament and lose £5 entry fee by losing 2 back to back best of 3's.

  • YSK the United Kingdom has the most corrupt real estate market in the Western World. A Bangladesh government official recently purchased 350 properties in England.

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  • The London property market is a very popular place for foreign corrupt politicians to dump stolen money into.

  • What is happening to Lemmy instances?

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  • Europe.pub seemed to be down for a little while last night as well.

  • This is fine

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  • It is the best system...... But not for you. There can only be so many winners.

    What do you suggest? No winners? Just sharing things like some communist savage? But then how will we know who is the best?

  • What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday!

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  • Like many things in my life, this remains 75% complete "good enough". This lives behind a huge backboard behind my TV. Said backboard is slanting because it is leaning against the wall and I still haven't mounted it to the wall properly. You can even see some glass panels leaning against the wall, those are some shelves I've been meaning to put in...... For the past 6 years.

    The router, fibre internet entry point and LAN connection in the wall (to upstairs) are all behind d the TV there...... So everything is just dumped there.

  • What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday!

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  • I'll paste a comment I made about this recently (with updates). My question is: what is a good solution to keep a music folder backed up (lives on my server NVME partitioned boot drive, but want it backed up automatically to my NAS HDD)? Also: how can I back up my Docker setup in case I screw it up and need to set it all up again?

    I used just a Synology NAS with Docker containers to begin with but outgrew that. Now I have a mini PC with a 12th Gen i5 (picked up cheap on eBay) for computing and the Synology NAS is just a NAS.

    Docker containers:

    Glutun (VPN), qBittorrent, media managers (sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, flaresolverr), Jellyfin (video streaming), Paperless NGX (document upload), Immich (photo upload), watchtower (auto update Docker containers), Plex (because my wife+friends aren't used to Jellyfin yet and it takes a while to transition them to unfamiliar technology), Actual (budgeting), Syncthing (file sync, update: removed this, not needed, actually need a backup solution), Element server (chat server just for myself, I make channels to cross-share snippets of text/links/images to myself, accessible on any device).

    Still need to set up Lidarr and Beet for my music management (update: tried these last night and don't really need them). Also need to find a good exercise logger, set up Guacamole remote access interface (update: done, happy with this), learn to use Dockage to replace Portainer (done, happy with this), set up an RSS docker app (update: done, still messing around with FreshRSS) and audio bookshelf for podcasts and audiobooks. Haven't got the guts to approach Home Assisstant yet.

    I stopped looking for a notes app and use Joplin to sync with my Mailbox.org account, but I might look for a Docker solution for notes.

    NoMachine runs on my server PC for remote desktop. The server PC runs Debian with KDE (because I'm familiar with setting up what I need in KDE, which is the most superior of all desktop environments).

    Synology handles making my apps accessible externally (from Synology.me reverse proxy addresses).

    I used to use the Marius Hosting site to set up Synology Docker containers. Now I just copy his YAML data and edit it for my server. So I still use those guides.

    I've written a noob guide notes for myself to set this all up again in case I destroy it somehow (already happened once). Really enjoyed using my week off to learn all this.

  • What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday!

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  • I've learnt it from scratch in my week off, spending 2 or 3 hours on it every night for a week (although this might be underselling it as I had become familiar with desktop Linux over the past year and had a superficial idea of Docker containers with my Synology NAS). But still it's not as big a deal as you think once you find some good resources. I'm going to comment about my setup after this in this thread.... Have a look.

    Main resource that helped me was Marius Hosting and ChatGPT got me out of trouble when I got stuck by deciphering logs for me when things didn't work.

  • UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs

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  • Yet another ill concieved piece of legislation incoming, from a bunch of elderly people who don't understand anything and are quick to moral panic.

    Imagine the recruitment process for this taskforce. A bunch of people rushing to volunteer for this taskforce that requires watching all the source material for research purposes.

  • Good racing games on Steam?

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  • Correct, it should be Dirt Rally 2. Highly recommend that for real rally simulation.