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Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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?

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

At least they have some kind of choice...

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days 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.

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I'm sorry for your loss.

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Nice, why risky?

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days 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
Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hmm that is also a nice a way to put it. However when you are slowed you can be demanded more productivity even though you cannot do anything about it. Maybe except unpaid overtime. Do you have anything for this?

Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? in c/[email protected]
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Linux Sys Admins, do you work on Linux or Windows office laptops? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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How to choose the best Linux hardware for PC Building? (linux-hardware.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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What are your games to get into the season for its vibe? (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20175694

I mean games you played / you are going to play.

My list looks like this for example:

What are yours?

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What are your games to get into the season for its vibe? (lemmy.ml)
 

I mean games you played / you are going to play.

My list looks like this for example:

What are yours?

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How can we make Linux more appealing as "just works"? (lemmy.ml)
 

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.

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Why Wayland adoption to have official support in programs is so slow? (wayland.freedesktop.org)
 

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.

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How have you automated configuring your machines in terms of packages and dotfiles so it works cross-distro? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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!

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What file systems are you using on your devices and why? (en.wikipedia.org)
 

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
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What is the most neatest Open Source smartwatch? (gadgetbridge.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm looking for any suggestions for smartwatch that it similar like Google Pixel Phones with GrapheneOS. Is there such a thing?

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What Are the Best Ideas for Using LineageOS with Root and microG? (github.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17202620

I have OnePlus 7 Pro that I successfully flashed with LineageOS 21 with MicroG. Do you have some interesting apps or ideas to take advantage of it? I thought of some Magisk modules. Maybe someone is more experience than me! This is the spare smartphone, the main one is GrapheneOS, so I don't mind breaking stuff.

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What Are the Best Ideas for Using LineageOS with Root and microG? (github.com)
 

I have OnePlus 7 Pro that I successfully flashed with LineageOS 21 with MicroG. Do you have some interesting apps or ideas to take advantage of it? I thought of some Magisk modules. Maybe someone is more experience than me! This is the spare smartphone, the main one is GrapheneOS, so I don't mind breaking stuff.

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What is your favourite game with native Linux port? (factorio.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
211 comments fedilink
 

For me, it's Factorio.

a game in which you build and maintain factories.

It even has Wayland support!

(Version 1.1.77» Fri Mar 03, 2023 3:44 pm)

Graphics

  • Added support for Wayland on Linux. To enable it, set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland in your environment. (thanks to raiguard)

What's yours?

EDIT: Great Linux ports* not like some forced ports that barely work or don't.

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