• carrion0409@lemm.ee
    9·
    2 days ago

    You may have lost your wife but at least you kept your virginity and thats the real victory !

    • daggermoon@lemmy.world
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Any downsides to switching to Debian from Arch? If using the testing branch it’s mostly like Arch right?

      • OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        no, texting is packages that are chosen to make it the next version of debian stable, the version your thinking of is debian unstable/sid, which is not a standalone os but a repo that you can change to after you install either testing or stable (unstable does not refer to the stability of your system but to the stability of package compatibility as it turns debian into a rolling release system like arch) Note: you can use Bookworm (stable) and trixie (testing) repos along with sid repos but it’s not recommended as it would make a frankendebian and might break stuff (see this for more info)

  • QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee
    30·
    2 days ago

    Somehow NixOS really is like a fucking crack. I had like a 6 months non-stop hyperfixation about configuring everything using NixOS and Home Manager. Almost every evening. Now I have a polished setup of my personal and work laptops, homelab server and a VPS. And I have no regrets, this thing is amazing.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    116·
    3 days ago

    The feeling of “conflating reality and whatever computer topic you’re currently engrossed in” is too real.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        19·
        3 days ago

        Cramming for CCNA while also wedding planning and on codeine for a bad cough, many years ago…I remember the question of how many subnets to fit in each table crossing my head. Shit like that.

        (I mention the codeine because my body, as it turns out, has nearly no tolerance for opiates).

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    3 days ago

    So NixOS is like freebasing Arch, got it. I’m still tempted to spin up a VM, just a taste…

  • Parafaragaramus@infosec.pubEnglish
    301·
    3 days ago

    Arch User here btw… she left me after pacman -Syu broke my system again. I think I saw her with a Debian User… Damn stable systems!

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
      201·
      3 days ago

      Debian girl here. We may not have updated anything in 5 years but boy howdy are things stable or what.

      • Parafaragaramus@infosec.pubEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        Tch… Who can live with packages that are more than a few days old!? All my packages are bleeding edge and there are only minor major version conflicts

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I’ve never had things break after doing updates in Arch. Am I doing something different to most people in the “pacman -Syu” memes, or is the likelihood of breaking stuff overdone as a joke

  • kronarbob@lemmy.world
    31·
    3 days ago

    whispering into the void

    That’s it, that’s the problem. You talked to another distribution while still using the previous one. Yous lost your wife’s trust, then it was over.

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    I’m a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I’ve attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.

    I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. “Ok, honey, I’ll be in the living room watching my shows.”

    This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.

    When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I’d come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She’d call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.

    She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.

    • superkret@feddit.org
      21·
      3 days ago

      Stay with her. Supporting you without understanding what the fuck it is you’re doing is a huge green flag for a lasting relationship/marriage.
      Also, reflect on how you can give her the same support, with things where you don’t know or understand her struggle.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
      11·
      3 days ago

      Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux

      Soon you should convince her to marry you (if that’s your thing)

      • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Care to explain? I run TrueNAS because it was the easiest for me to setup at the time. I’m not smart and it was a simple and free solution. Plex because Jellyfin wasn’t where it is now, but also because again, I’m not smart and I have family outside my network use the server. Setting up wire guard and all that makes my brain hurt, let alone getting my mother to understand how to connect to Jellyfin.

        • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Just surprised after you wrote all that for running various difficult methods of Linux to then say you run TrueNas and Plex. I think Jellyfin on a Linux server is a better and easier option and would be familiar to you.

          Ah yeah, the family. That’s the biggest reason for Plex I guess

          • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Fair, like I said I’m not smart so I was only following a YouTube tutorial on how to install Arch, first time the guy was using Gnome which I didn’t like so I had to find another that showed KDE. All those experiments and even the Plex server setup were built alongside YT tutorials and an IT friend who also has a Plex server helping me with upgrades when I needed to add a SAS card for additional drives.

            I’ve honestly just been winging it here lmao

            • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              I totally don’t believe you aren’t smart enough to :) your Linux desktop experience will carry over.

              I personally found TrueNas too difficult for anything other than serving as a NAS.

              How’re you liking KDE? I’m the opposite, I prefer gnome but want some KDE features. So mixed.

              • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                Now that I have more experience with Linux yeah I’ve gained some skills, still just scratching the surface though. TrueNAS just worked for me, maybe just due to my simple use case as a Plex server/ light network storage.

                KDE Plasma has been great for me since it (as well as Cinnamon on my Mint system) are close to the Windows ecosystem I’ve been used to for decades, so it makes sense for me. Having KDE Connect out of the box helps move ROMs from my desktop to my Steam Deck without having a dingle dongle adapter for a flashdrive, works kinda like AirDrop in my experience. Pus I like the way it looks out of the box, except for the floating taskbar which I immediately locked to the bottom of the screen.

                At some point I’ll setup Syncthing and automate that process for keeping game states synced up as well.