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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

Ex arch btw user here. I noped out and wiped after thinking I had it all nailed down, then I tried to connect my Bluetooth headphones and I came to a grand awakening. I am too old for this shit.

Installed Tumbleweed and been happy ever since.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

My "I don't have time for this" moment came when I tried to set up Nextcloud on Arch:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nextcloud

Meanwhile on Slackware:

Configuration

(1) Add the following in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

  Alias /nextcloud "/srv/httpd/htdocs/nextcloud/"
  
      Options +FollowSymlinks
      AllowOverride All
      
        Dav off
      
      SetEnv HOME      "/srv/httpd/htdocs/nextcloud"
      SetEnv HTTP_HOME "/srv/httpd/htdocs/nextcloud"
  

(2) In /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, enable mod_rewrite and PHP by uncommenting
"LoadModule rewrite_module ..." and "Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf",
then restart httpd.
[–] boomzilla 4 points 1 year ago

I just installed Nextcloud on Arch and the official packages caused the most headaches I ever had within my 3 years of arch. In contrast I installed the official Jellyfin and Prometheus Server packages and they ran OOTB.

I ended up with not using the official packages but extracting the tar.bz2 into /var/www/nextcloud and slightly modifying the nginx config from their site. I had to move the inclusion of the MIME-Types file to a different block for nextcloud to deliver its CSS, SVGs and images. It wasn't exactly straight-forward too considering permissions. I found it a beast compared to many other server software.

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