Psyhackological

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[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Portage (Gentoo)

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

You can write Microsoft like it's naughty with changing it's meaning even though it is the same

Micros**t

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

I understand your point but I disagree. My senior head of security department uses Linux with Windows VM for Microsoft stuff like Office, Outlook, Teams etc. Besides that many things are handled through configured LDAP with AD and many pain points through Linux and Windows interchangeability is solved through Samba like fileservers. I also hear more and more about FreeIPA thing. I only heard and read of Kerberos that is hard to do.

For everything else like

  • proxies
  • certificates
  • VPNs

Everything is the same or even better and more secure on Linux. SSL stuff just comes from it... Even from BSD systems I think that is known for simplicity and security. With so many bloat on Windows there is so much vulnerabilities and things to manage while you can KISS. (Keep It Simple Stupid)

I don't need 80% things on Windows but I do have them as I'm forced to and they also are like some ticking security bomb.

I don't ask for a perfect Linux support, but at least an ability to do so. I tried it and in the end it came out that Microsoft likes Windows more than Linux (I know surprising). Intune crashed, certificates were weirdly Windows specific and after that I gave up.

Isn't freedom about doing whatever you want especially when you want to get as much of your system, hardware so they just can squeeze as much productivity as possible from an employee?

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting... But you use it at work and it is allowed?

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

At least they have some kind of choice...

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

Just let's say using it for PuTTY is fine.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Hah I don't have that privilege but same mindset. It is weird to me that in many companies you were deprived of choice at least. Linux can be worse too but let me just try it and see.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago

I'm sorry for your loss.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

Nice, why risky?

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

Automation of the Cloud deployment.

  • OpenStack with Kolla Ansible
  • just Ansible
  • sometimes Bash scripting or Python

Monitoring

  • Prometheus with Grafana and AlertManager

Bare metal automation

  • Some BMC stuff
  • MAAS

Fileserver maintance

  • MooseFS with Samba
  • Ceph OSDs cluster

And any other that for now I don't have much time like

  • AWX with Kubernetes
[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha nice. I heard that office 365 is okay but for let's say 10000 rows Excel it lacks performance.

 

I'm getting sick every day at this Microsoft Windows slowness and bloat. I am trying to use as much Linux VMs as possible. I feel so unproductive on Windows. I also tried installing Linux on the office laptop. The problem is that Windows is officialy supported and the Linux is DYI. Once the IT departament changes it will sync up with Windows but Linux can be broken and you are no longer able to work. Next job I want to have full Linux laptop or at least Mac.

Besides:

  • Microsoft Office
  • Active Directory
  • Some proxy and VPN bullshit

Everything seems manageable and even better on Linux.

What is your experience?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Psyhackological@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I see the raise of popularity of Linux laptops so the hardware compatibility is ready out of the box. However I wonder how would I build PC right know that has budget - high end specification. For now I'm thinking

  • Case: does not matter
  • Fans: does not matter
  • PSU: does not matter
  • RAM: does not matter I guess?
  • Disks: does not matter I guess?
  • CPU: AMD / Intel - does not matter but I would prefer AMD
  • GPU: AMD / Intel / Nvidia - for gaming and Wayland - AMD, for AI, ML, CUDA and other first supported technologies - Nvidia.

And now the most confusing part for me - motherboard... Is there even some coreboot or libreboot motherboard for PC that supports "high end" hardware?

Let's just say also a purpose of this Linux PC. Choose any of these

  1. Blender 3D Animation rendering
  2. Gaming
  3. Local LLM running

If you have some good resources on this also let me know.

 

Let's say just like for example like MacOS. It's awesome we have so many tools but at the same time lack of some kind of standardization can seem like nothing works and you get overwhelmed. I'm asking for people that want to support Linux or not so tech-savy people.

 

Wayland seems ready to me but the main problem that many programs are not configured / compiled to support it. Why is that? I know it's not easy as "Wayland support? Yes" (but in many cases adding a flag is enough but maybe it's not a perfect support). What am I missing? Even Blender says if it fails to use Wayland it will use X11.

When Wayland is detected, it is the preferred system, otherwise X11 will be used

Also XWayland has many limitations as X11 does.

 

I'm looking for interesting tools to automate managing packaging and configuring everything automated.

And yeah I know about NixOS but I like to distro hop and experiment so I for now know these:

  • Ansible - automating many machines, using different package names as vars and package managers.
  • Bash - the most native and compatible scripting language that can be.
  • Chezmoi - for dotfiles.

For now that's it. I'm looking forward for your suggestions!

 

I want to learn more about file systems from the practical point of view so I know what to expect, how to approach them and what experience positive or negative you had / have.

I found this wikipedia's comparison but I want your hands-on views.

For now my mental list is

  • NTFS - for some reason TVs on USB love these and also Windows + Linux can read and write this
  • Ext4 - solid fs with journaling but Linux specific
  • Btrfs - some modern fs with snapshot capability, Linux specific
  • xfs - servers really like these as they are performant, Linux specific
  • FAT32 - limited but recognizable everywhere
  • exFAT - like FAT32 but less recognizable and less limited
 

I found these: Scalpel - but no longer maintaned. PhotoRec - but I don't know how well it works with Btrfs.

Maybe you have something better.

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