Docker doesn’t make a difference. Containers run natively and with no emulation.

I’ve run Linux as my primary OS since the 90s and I’ve never understood slackware. It’s the OG “I run it so I can brag about it” distro.

(BTW)

Read the thread…

It goes back further than you may think. YACC was written in “B” originally.

It’s fine.

Seriously I’ve run it for years. It’s just fine. No greater or fewer issues than other distros. You can avoid snaps if you like, but I don’t. I simply don’t care and they usually work better than flatpaks for me (snaps can install a cli executable, flatpaks require silly ways of running from the CLI).

So what you’re saying is that the package manager is very different?

My point stands - once things are installed your “Linux Experience” is pretty similar.

NOTE: I’ve used words like “most” and “similar” and “pretty”. Do not ignore these words. They have meaning.

Replied to the wrong post by accident.

Linux distros are made for using, not teaching. That’s what LFS is for: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

Most distros are very similar - it’s mostly the same software just using a different package manager.

This is why “which distro should I use” is the most annoying question in this community.

No - you’re not installing an app from the App Store. You’re running services now. There needs to be some minimum assumed knowledge about what that entails. And if you don’t have that knowledge you should expect to seek it out separately.

And if you’re too lazy or think “gee that’s difficult” then guess what? Self-hosting’s not for you. No shame - go pay for a service instead.

It’s not their job to teach you how to use docker.

This is a commercial product - users expect support when things don’t work. You can’t simply reply with “Hey, go figure it out” and point them at a lemmy community.

In fact they address this further down:

but a lot of Linux users will see “We support xxxx” and they’ll go off and try a different distro. It’ll mostly work, but then something doesn’t, and it takes a while for us to figure out why, and then we get a lot of arguments over why their chosen distro should work, and why we should be supporting it.

They’re all valid reasons…

His router is tri-band though meaning it has 2 5ghz transceivers. With an extender usually you use one of them as a backplane for ap->ap communication so it doesn’t interfere with your performance.

Nginx scales better than Apache does for static content and proxying, so it started to take over market share.

A home gamer handling a handful of users is unlikely to ever notice a difference.

But the configuration for nginx is simpler nout of the box for most things which is probably the real reason people use it at home.

Reading his side of it only made me dislike him him more…

The thing about Foss is that it’s typically community oriented. You are not only able to contribute and participate, but you’re invited to do so.

And if you’re an asshole and your community is toxic then who cares if your code is good? There are other projects I’d rather participate in. Cuz you’re not that good.

Being a good dev doesn’t mean being a good person

Being a good dev doesn’t justify being a bad person either.

This wm is dead to me.

I agree. But in this case it was 100% justified as OP just (hopefully reversibly) destroyed their installation.

And yet they did so using the package manager. They just installed a apt.source that they shouldn’t have. THAT I would say one should not do unless one really knows what they are doing. If they had just installed some .appimage or compiled something from source they would have been fine.

Thanks for properly nuancing my stance. Though, perhaps consider to do so right away next time 😜.

And yet:

It was deliberate. But I wouldn’t refer to it as hyperbolic.

So… I’m not going to nuance your stance if it shouldn’t be nuanced. It’s a bit up to you to be clear about your nuance. And in this case you’re being very ambiguous about it.