lucas

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[–] lucas@startrek.website 34 points 2 weeks ago

MS doesn't blame the user when they get confused by a GUI or become intimidated by a command line interface.

Umm, yes they do. Look at copilot (as one recent example). The full range of opinion I've ever encountered goes from apathy to hatred. (Never heard of anyone having anything positive to say about it, the 'nicest' thing being to the effect of 'I just ignore it, so I don't care'). And yet, Microsoft's attitude is that 'the user is wrong, deal with it', and this has always been the case in both Windows and Mac OS, while the various OSS DEs attempt to fix real user frustrations.

Many of the points they make are true for GNOME specifically, but thankfully, there are plenty of other options, and Linux != GNOME.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 11 points 1 month ago

This Mitchell & Webb sketch comes to mind... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY

[–] lucas@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Surely, if you forget it's even running, you aren't using it, and it doesn't matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)

[–] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

If you're using the AIO image, backup/restore can handled for you, so no need to worry about the manual steps involved. Or if you're using a VM, a backup can take the form of full system snapshots, so also no need to understand how data are stored. Granted it's always helpful to know what your running, but not necessarily requisite, even for backups.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

Absolutely. I actually have an upgrade already planned, but it's just that it's not because I can't run VMs, it's more that I want to run more hungry services than will fit on those resources, whatever virtualisation layers were being used. The fact that it's an easy fix to more a VM/lxc to a new host is absolutely it, though.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Am I looking at the wrong device? Beelink EQ15 looks like it has an N150 and looks like 16GB of ram? That's plenty for quite few VMs. I run an N100 minipc with only 8GB of RAM and about half a dozen VMs and a similar number of LXC containers. As long as you're careful about only provisioning what each VM actually needs, it can be plenty.