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I never thought about it before but I use upstream and downstream without much though. For my personal devices and containers I use Fedora but when it comes to servers and VMs I use Debian for its stable nature.

I also run Linux mint in my homelab with pcie pass though so it functions like a normal desktop.

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

It would be weirder to like Linux and Windows, but hey someone had to write samba 😹

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Samba is much easier to deal with than NFS. I would use it in a all Linux environment honestly.

[–] spencer@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I tend to agree - I have no love lost for Microsoft but I’m also willing to admit when they’ve got some good tech.

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