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  • Honestly, incus.

    I know it’s not strictly a utility, but holy cow, Stephane Graber and his team have put the work into that product, such that anything you can do in the ui can be done in the CLI, and more.

    Tab completion entries for all the resource types (storage, instances, image repos, etc), help entries for everything, it brings a tear to the eye.

    I once thought it was cool to have standardised man entries, but even better is context-sensitive --help entries that work well. Almost all the discovery I’ve made using incus, I’ve made using the commands themselves.

    It’s a real testament to how putting in the documentation work might be tedious, but it is a boon to both users and devs.


  • Oh, come on. Pretending that foss devs have no connection to users or the community is not a take based in reality. The Linux world is full of changes made or reversed by community sentiment, even for bigger players like Canonical.

    The very core of Foss is allowing popular and useful projects to gain momentum by appealing to users. Sure, you can fork a project or start your own, but that independence of the devs is rooted in community support to go do what you want.

    And I’ll repeat myself: this is different, foss devs and users both will no have the option to just “go do their own thing” if these laws all become reality.


  • I was with you, particularly with your anti-violence stance, until this comment.

    The answer to disagreements in the Linux world has been to fork a project or make your own. This is different, neither devs nor users will have a say if these various laws are instituted.

    The majority of users do not care, and even if they did it’s still not the user’s place to demand the FOSS developers listen to them.

    Linux is not a megacorporation. It is an array of different interests that still manage to get lots of interesting stuff done, even with those differences.

    This was not a cool thing to say.




  • My disagreement with your posture is your implied insistence that protecting children is the only goal of these proposed laws. The military example should have shown you that this is obviously not the main goal of these laws, but you seem to want to ignore this.

    Most ppl agree with protecting kids from mature content.

    This law(s) is framed in a way to be unenforceable, yet the laws are coming regardless. This would suggest there is another reason for the laws.

    • How would the law work for new Linux server rollouts?
    • Over 18 only, no learning Linux in school?
    • Change working age laws so no under 18 can administer servers?
    • Consent on every automated install? How would that work?
    • If servers are excluded from the law, will ppl just use a server install and add a DE on them after?
    • How do we validate who is actually at the keyboard? (Hint, you can’t)

    Are you seeing how unworkable this proposed law is yet?

    We don’t prevent kids from going into hardware stores that carry dangerous tools, we assume children are accompanied by a responsible adult. This is no different.









    • You must install from Linux, proton has no idea where all your DLL are from your other install.
    • don’t use NTFS in Linux if you can avoid it
    • as others have said, open the hood and look at logs, errors, etc. Linux is open and free, but that comes with doing more yourself.

    If you can’t stop complaining about how “windows did this automatically, but Linux doesn’t”, maybe Linux isn’t for you. No one is going to hold your hand and do the magic for you.