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What software have you found particularly frustrating or difficult to configure on Linux?

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[–] xcjs 3 points 2 months ago

Getting Keycloak and Headscale working together.

But I did it after three weeks.

I captured my efforts in a set of interdependent Ansible roles so I never have to do it again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
  1. Setting up Nvidia runtime for rootless Docker containers in Linux.

  2. Resolving port :53 conflict between AdGuardHome (rootless) docker container and Systemd-Resolved.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

X11. Luckily those days are over thanks to Wayland but, Jesus, are X.org config files a fucking, fiddly PITA to configure!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Rootless podman, PostgreSQL, redis, nextcloud, nginx, iptables in one....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Motion on my RPI. I didn't want it to save videos or photos, so I turned it off in the config. But it still saved them. So I tried a few other places in the config to turn it off, but nothing worked and I'd run out of space within a day. So I changed the save directory to /dev/null.

Then I tried to upgrade the pi, and the new version of motion has a different config, incompatible with the old one. So I'm running the old one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Skyrim mods.

Btw, anyone got the new reshade working on wine?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Caddy. The config and docs suck.

Eg. I thought I configured it to limit some sites to an allowlist of IPs. Turns out (months later) the config did nothing, but ran anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Trying to configure Sway in NixOS. I gave up and just use KDE Plasma. I do miss using Sway from when I used Arch, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I use i3 - Sway is supposed to be 100% compatible with i3 - and I find the configuration file very straightforward. What's different in the version in NixOS?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wild. I used sway for the first time with Nix since I could rollback a misconfiguration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I got stuck on secrets management. I just could not get network manager to keep my WiFi passwords. I'll probably go back and try again at some point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

it's embarrassing but for me it's thinkfan. Instead I wrote my own solution in bash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

hostapd. I have no idea how you’re supposed to figure out the 50 or so options OpenWrt outputs for an AX card that I just ended up copying. And why doesn’t it detect those on its own?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

xorg.conf. The (wrong) example from Arch Wiki works but following the official documentation doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cloud-init. The config yaml is rather straight forward, but I can't convince my VM to execute it, and it's driving me nuts.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Do VLANs with multiple wireless and wired clients using OPNSense and OpenWRT dummy APs count? Still haven’t quite figured it out.

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