What the fuck are you on about? Jesus christ, we get ragebait in here too now?

Know your usecases. Thats it. Linux isn’t hard if you do.

But no, let me recommend the jet engine service manual to my 6 year old that is learning to read. You’re going to have a bad time.

For the record, since this post and most comments irked me, arch is fine. I’m using arch on my workstation/personal rig for years. Fedora on the laptop because I need a stable work thing. Alpine VMs on the homelab because it needs light and stable.

USECASES!

I second the fedora kde spin. Been using it for years on my work laptops. Hasnt failed me yet.

Right, yeah, guess I’m in the wrong with this one.

No. The question was technical. Not political. It does not even occur to you that you can explain something without bringing in mention of the political situation, does it?

Does it do “the vpn thing” - yes or no.

Does it record your data - yes or no.

Does it log trafffic - yes or no.

Is it stable - yes or no.

Are there caveats - if yes, which?

I take issue with mentioning the curent political landscape, because it is painfully obvious why we NEED vpn solutions in this day and age. You can flame me for it all you want. I want the discussion to be relevant. Not reddit-like.

Question about vpn … but virginia is conservative and jesus has a trump tramp stamp … dude … please stop making everything about fucking politics, please. Thank you.

Hey man, I wasn’t trying to be a jerk, I was trying to make a joke. Sorry if it came off badly, probably not my best phrasing. I guess there’s a joke to be made about my jokes in there somewhere.

Truth be told, I’m salty about proton, not necessarily about what the ceo said (that too), but its like a canary in the mine, isn’t it, a portent of things to come. So many companies are bending the knee, ufortunately.

I used to pay for proton becase it saved me time and piece of mind, now since I left I have to self-host everything, because I no longer want to move my shit around every time something goes the way of enshittification. That means time and effort spent on setting up and maintaining everything. Its a chore.

Thats why I made the joke the way I did, because I’m salty, I didn’t cook it proper. You have a good one and take care out there stranger.

Congrats! From one trump kneebender right to the other. Is this a speedrun attempt?

Yeah, I know, I am in the process of leaving where I am now (eu citizen) and its between uk, germany and the netherlands. The reason I didnt look seriously at swiss, is because of all the stories I heard about people never integrating, despite efforts.

I’m looking for my forever place, that means balls deep in every aspect.

This is such a superficial take.

Flatpaks have their use-case. Alpine has its use-case as a small footprint distro, focused on security. Using flatpaks would nuke that ethos.

Furthermore, they need those servers to build their core and base system packages. There is no distro out there that uses flatpaks or appimages for their CORE.

Any distro needs to build their toolchain, libs and core. Flatpaks are irrelevant to this discussion.

At the risk of repteating myself, flatpaks are irrelevant to Alpine because its a small footprint distro, used alot in container base images, containers use their own packaging!

Furthermore, flatpaks are literal bloat, compared to alpines’ apk packages which focus on security and minimalism.

Edit: Flatpak literally uses alpine to build its packages. No alpine, no flatpaks. Period

Flatpaks have their use. This is not that. Check your ignorance.

So I have to move to Swiss then, got it.

So many tips, let me add mine.

• btop - for monitoring and process management
• pacseek - terminal UI for installing, searching packages (uses yay)
• chaotic aur - repo for prebuilt binaries that are generally ok

When installing use the archinstall the first time, unless you really want to go into the deep end and use the normal install.

Like folding at home :D

That averages out to around 300 megabytes per second. No way anyone has that at home comercially.

One of the best comercial fiber connections i ever saw will provide 50 megabytes per second upload, best effort that is.

No way in hell you can satisfy that bandwidth requirement at home. Lets not mention that they need 3 nodes with such bw.

What the royal shitballs are you on about?! Grinding creates sparks from friction, have you never used a damn anglegrinder?

Tuta for mail, bitwarden for passwords, mullvad for vpn. You lose port forwarding.

I migrated last week. I dont miss proton.

I did something very similar, spent about a year on fedora … 33? then discovered “my preferred distro” and never looked back.

Thing is that everyone finds their place with a distro and settles for as long as it suits their needs. Then, you might move on, you might not. Its just an OS, a means to an end. Use what you need, then use something else, no need to go to the doctor for hopping headaches :)

It is THE most relevant to your problem. I have friends like you, they are miserable but never change anything about themselves to improve their life. I was the same, went to therapy, opened up and untangled the bullshit that was my brain. Takes effort man.

You see the replies don’t you? There is more than one person pointing at the problem.