Headless Ubuntu means comfortable with the cli. And over simplifying things, but cli works same on all distros other than package manager commands. Terminal in RHEL is close enough to Terminal in Knoppix. And again pointed to site to reference DEs, not distros.
Yeah if someone posts thinking of jumping from windows, what diatro should I get. I say get mint, fedora, or pop_os. Maybe bazzite depending on phrasing. Them get comfortable with Linux and then maybe shop around. I still challenge the aspect the OP is a noob. Cont'd
And yes, many distros on that site
But also has most DEs for said distros too, so he can pick the diateo with most DEs and just play without formatting USBs ad nauseum
Core utils*
In another comment he says he runs headless Ubuntu servers at work. So doesn't sound like a noob to me 🤷♂️. But core utility works the same across distros. Most people get caught up on DEs. So agreed with you saying pick a DE before picking a distro.
Might be rhetorical if you're not the OP on reddit
Why not just authenticate with ssh keys? You can also set that as a secret in GH. No hard coding creds.
Do you have Ansible or another configuration management tool? You distrohop a lot and I'd script it all if it were me. Just set up all my PCs and VMs to update daily with Ansible. Next going to setup vault and configure it as a cron job.
Good advice. Picking a desktop is harder than picking a distro. But since you run Linux serverless maybe install arch and rotate DEs. Or use this site to pick one.
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Ls, cp, my, all work the same on the distros. Just different package managers. Picking a desktop is the real challenge, but this can help.
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Choice paralysis really got to me too. But just pick a beginner friendly distro with a good user base. Mint, fedora, pop_os etc. That way most people will have the problems you have before and easy to find solutions. I like mint personally. They're all the same at a high level. Cont'd
That's the specs of my proxmox server. I built the VM pretty light. I'll throw some more hardware at it before I power it on. I just defaulted to 1 vCPU and 2 go of memory. Probably match what you have with 6 vCPU and 16gb of memory and see how that goes. Can always power it down and mod accordingly
That's the specs of my proxmox server. I built the VM pretty light. I'll throw some more hardware at it before I power it on. I just defaulted to 1 vCPU and 2 go of memory. Probably match what you have with 6 vCPU and 16gb of memory and see how that goes. Can always power it down and mod accordingly
Much appreciated! I'll definitely keep that in mind. I know you said it wouldn't work well in a VirtualBox VM, but now I have a dedicated proxmox desktop. 12 cpu and 64gb of memory
Be careful what you wish for lol. I might be pestering you soon ish lol.
Downloaded a gentoo iso to my proxmox server... shit's about to go down! #Gentoo #Linux
Linux. Mint/mate on my desktop and arch/sway on my laptop.
Been using this article to sway people into not using it. Very well written, and details things I can't explain. Now I'll have to give you credit. I often open tabs in a browser to read later and forget where they come from.
But at a high and simplistic level most distros operate the same other than package managers. Ip a works the same on mint as it does fedora. Then when you get comfortable then explore.
I was out for a while and came back and froze in choice paralysis myself. Then I realized it was simple. Just pick a popular distro. Then others likely will have had the same issue as you. The hard part is picking the desktop environment. 1/2
I setup arch from the wiki and still use mint for my desktop as i need it to work reliably and it does. So it can support new and seasoned users. Give it a try. You can play with distros/desktops (i.e. cinnamon, mate, xfce) here. I'm not an expert, but willing to help w/ questions
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This^^ Don't overcomplicate it. Just pick a distro and get started. You're probably going to try a few anyways before its over. What do you use your PC for? You'll likely just grab mint, fedora, or popOS to start. Also this helps pick distros and desktop environments
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RedHat Enterprise Linux or RHEL for short is aimed more towards enterprises. I suspect you've heard of fedora though which belongs to the redhat family
Now that I have proxmox and keep standing up VMs, manually updating these distros became a chore. So I wrote an Ansible playbook to take care of it for me using gather_facts and when: ansible_os_family == "Distro".
Ipython is great to test small segments of code
JQ is GREAT for parsing JSON
Arch/mint. I don't use AUR. I've not looked to see if i can just compile individual apps. But not copying the entire repo to my local. Seems I'll advised. So use mint for things that aren't readily available on arch.
Yeah, ZERO complaints from me. Have 2 desktops and 3 laptops so far. One desktop has 64gb of ram for proxmox. Other only has 16. But mint never makes it sweat. My QubesOS laptop has 38gb of ram and others have 32gb
Ive not tested it, but there's a setting in wsl properties. Or you can enable via cli. Cnat recall setting name off top of my head.
