Downvoting because, when I think of FOSS it is all public transport.

Can some create a train/bus version of this meme? I don’t have the skill or authority to do that.

RustConn looks very promising. Could it retire Remmina?

I am interested in the journey you are taking since I use Zabbix for monitoring some servers.

That’s why I have disabeled it for vim. Infact I disabled mouse support alltogether.

I am guilty of using scp. Glad to see that there is a reimplementation going on.

Yes, I see now that this is not helpful at all. I’ll put a disclaimer in front of it. I don’t want to write a comment like that again.

I came to Linux without the “help” of social media as we know it today. That may be part of the reason, why I did not make such a experience myself. I remember asking someone from a higher semester in university how to burn a CD on Linux. They gave me three lines of cli and the name of another GUI tool I don’t remember. They didn’t tell which distro or environment to use. They must have assumed, I will find it on any of them.

That response in the past should’ve been and will be my guideline.

Thx, I think, I will look into chocolatey if WAU is not working out as expected.

Thx, sometimes I forget that. But I don’t get what you mean by “purity test shit”. I am not that “I use Arch, btw.” kind of person, I just have a strong opinion about what is user friendly. Maybe I voice it more here than I would in RL. When someone with no idea about what’s suitable I recommend what I use, because then I can help better. And I recommend what they usually get out-of-box with no extensions, because then they can get help from others with the same default setup.

Maybe this attitude comes from my struggle with other desktops than Gnome. The Terminal is the only universal thing between all distros and desktop environments. Package managers don’t differ that much these days.

And yes, I agree, distro or desktop environment hopping is not a thing a user should need to do in order to be comfortable with their computer.

I am a Gnome person, like others are MacOS or users of the Windows UI paradigm. Even in the time when I used a fork of dwm to create my own tiling window manager rice, I used a lot of Gnome/GTK apps. I am now back on Gnome with the PaperWM extension and I am in my happy space. I think, it is the positive enthusiasm (spelled wrong, I know) that drives my attitude, too. This can be overwhelming and could lead to things others don’t want on their computers. I could try to dial it down. So, thx again for reminding me.

Edit; disclaimer / content warning: This is a hot take and not helpful for new users! Stay away from reading it unless you want to know, how new users should not be treated. I certainly have learned my lesson (see comments).

Actually …

I still don’t get why Mint with it’s legacy Cinnamon desktop is recommended to new Linux users. Even Debian stable with a modern Gnome or Plasma desktop would do more justice to the growing FOSS ecosystem. Or go with Fedora which I recommend to all Linux/FOSS-newbs.

This is a meme, but my strong opinion at the same time. Go with Mint/Cinnamon as long as you like; you’ll make your own experiences and it is part of Linux/FOSS, too.

I only reed my subscribed feed. This way I cannot be distracted from random ****.

No, thx, I’ll check it out.

Thx for sharing your experience! I think I will try WAU tomorrow. In the meantime I have read, it has block/allow lists, too.

At my institution GPO/intune is not allowed; we have on-premis ActiveDirectory, and my access is restricted to the clients I need to manage.

So far, I could preinstall almost all apps with the --silent flag. I assume that this also means, that they will update gracefully as SYSTEM user managed by WAU. Having the updates only applied when any normal AD user without admin rights logs on, is not an issue, as long as it works.

There is only one specific app to install user certificates; this can stay a manual task after first logon, because it requires user credentials anyway. (:

I game on Debian; it is absolutely up to the task.

It is called the universal operating system for a reason.

Thx, I decided to not use raid for shipping.

this is scientific data.

Funfact, I recently did a scrub on my offline backup drive of my work PC. It correct around 250 errors. I wouldn’t have noticed any problems if I had used ext4 instead of btrfs.

I agree with both of you. Somehow I don’t worry about the drive in my laptop but 80 TB of scientific data is another thing, and I want to make sure it is the same data when it arrives.

That sounds scary and like I need at least btrfs if I need to ship the data instead of using rsync.

Yes, using rsync between the two servers would be the best option. I guess, despite I already have the drives. On my end I could provide the access and arrange proper security with VPN, but at the target there are still too many question marks and I cannot currently count on some basic Linux knowledge there.

For a previous transfer of much less data I had to write a PS script that handled the transfer. It was very slow.

So, I am actually dealing with another problem: Can I get enough information from the non-tech persons to provide the best and easiest solution for them.

Thx so far all the ideas from all of you.

Thx.

The disks are only meant for transport at this time.

The more I think about it, the more I lean towards btrfs, because even if they don’t use btrfs on the target server the copying process will do the error correction based on the checksums in btrfs itself. I hope btrfs does it the same way as ZFS in this scenario.

Your assumption is correct. These are many files of medium size: sat raster images.

The more I think about it, the more I lean towards btrfs, because even if they don’t use btrfs on the target server the copying process will do the error correction based on the checksums in btrfs itself.