• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    I have a coworker who went from windows only to “i want to try self host a bunch of stuff”

    Ran into lots of learning curves and problems

    Conclusion? “Linux sucks! Too difficult!”

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      4 hours ago

      Everything I selfhost was easily setup with a simple compose file and various env files for each resource. What the heck was he trying to setup? I haven’t used Windows in a long time, but I doubt they have anything as easy as a declarative file like compose.

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      13 hours ago

      Technically difficult thing is technically difficult, let’s blame John Linux for not making a big red “host server” button.

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        17 minutes ago

        Man. THANK YOU.

        I’m all for welcoming and teaching everyone, but I’m getting real tired of all the “Linux will never catch on because grandma can’t instantly VM-passthrough her NVIDIA card and remote in with Wireguard” or “changing the wallpaper requires terminal-ninja skills” rhetoric.

        Some common things could use simpler on-ramps but people act like mega-corpo you're-too-dumb-let-us-do-it-for-you -ification is some kind of “good thing” for tech adoption , when the strategy is really to create dependent customers without a fundamental understanding of how anything works.