upgrades when you’ve neglected a server
In times of containers, does it even matter?
Edit: to clarify, yes you MUST keep your server up to date (and have backups) but what I’m questioning is… if the OS a server actually matters much when most of the actual “serving” is done by containers, which might themselves get updates, or not, but are isolated.
KDE Plasma and Debian is where it’s at.
Yep, in fact sadly I move away from Ubuntu after years of using because of the slow yet seemingly inexorable trend toward bloatware. Going back to the “basics” with Debian, and keeping KDE, made the transition very easy. As you also highlight, Steam works perfectly. Anyway, time to go back to Elden Ring ;)
Ugh, interesting yet so obvious! It’s been years… well decades since I played with LFS, time to read on https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/9.1-systemd/chapter06/pkgmgt.html
So headscale?
Firefox
You mean you self-host your profile?
I… have had an NVIDIA 2080ti since they are sold (so… about 6 years?) and use it daily, gaming, using it for selfhosting AI a bit with CUDA and… just works, from gaming to tinkering. I don’t get those comments. Sorry you had such a bad experience, it’s not mine.
You’re right, it’s not “just” Proton. I also tried recently GoG for Pod and… it just worked! From buying the (sigh) Windows game to playing on Linux in literally minutes. Amazing.
For WMR I don’t know unfortunately. Monado does work though and I would check https://lvra.gitlab.io as it’s a great starting point, maybe starting with the Monado SteamVR plugin.
to steam deck.
to SteamOS
So… FWIW I post often about I have a painless NVIDIA experience, including playing Windows only games, including VR games.
I thought “Damn… how did I get so lucky?” and yesterday while tinkering with partitions (as one does…) I decided I’d try a “speed run” to go from no system to a VR Windows only game running on Linux.
I started from Debian 12 600Mb ISO and ~1h later I was playing.
I’m not saying everybody should have a perfect experience playing games on Linux with an NVIDIA but … mine was again pretty straightforward.
I’d argue it’s easier with Ubuntu and accepting non-free repository, probably having the same result, ~1hr from 0 to play, without even using the command line once.
FWIW you can fix it locally and eventually use a pull request.
I don’t know find well enough to comment on feasibility but I bet it’d be interesting to try, and maybe realize it’s not trivial.
Thanks for the in depth clarification. I had in mind how quick re-installing a system was after a failure but indeed security itself is fundamental.
So to try to better gauge the risk here when you say
what level of efforts are you talking about here? State level 0-day required with team of actual humans trying to hack? Script kiddy downloading Kali and playing for 1h? Something totally automated perpetually scanning the Internet in minutes and owning you without even caring for who you are?
I did read about blue pilling years ago (damn just checked, nearly 20 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software) ) but it seems that since it’s the 1 thing solutions like Docker, Podman, etc and VM propers (and then the underlying hardware) have to worry about, it feels like it would be like trying to break-in by focus on a lock rather than breaking a window, namely the “hard” part of the setup.