I discovered they have a Matrix server where people will literally debug your config for you and help you solve issues. But you are right, if you try doing it yourself without help you’ll be pulling your hair out

Why the hell would you even want to disable the firewall?

I’m behind a firewall on my router, why the hell do I want to enable it?

I use NixOS, FWIW

Too bad I forgot which tool did which debloat and couldn’t re-enable the firewall service to get Windows update working again

You’re right, I borked my Windows install debloating it and gave up after 1 week only

I spent 1-2 hours debloating Windows and it turns out Windows update doesn’t work unless you turn back on the Windows firewall service.

I forgot how I disabled it in the first place, so I gave up and installed Linux

NixOS by far has the most momentum right now.

Just check the non-unique package counts:

https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/nonunique

More than 80K packages that exist in other distros, more than all of packages in AUR combined with 90%+ being the newest version in unstable

And you can run unstable without an issue since you can downgrade individual packages whenever

I upgraded LTS versions and it failed and left my system in a broken state I couldn’t fix

It’s doing great unless you want to debug why chromium is not connecting to your USB devices

Hint: because they forced snap in you which doesn’t support USB access

I was about to respond with this, you’re still in college in your early 20s. Most of us don’t get a four year degree done in actual four years

We got junior devs in their late 20s because they were doing grad school until like 28

Flathub is not blocked

There aren’t really home-grown alternatives

I actually have a solution for your problem. Change distros:

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=docker

all kinds of docker versions and you don’t have to do any manual steps

Don’t download .exe files, the video files have a different extension.

I’d have to also back up /etc/apt/preferences.d

Much easier to just copy and paste a block of commands when I get a VPS up

I want to conveniently share setups between my desktop and laptop. If you do this manually you will find out one both have small differences

At the same time, I may document that this computer works better with pipewire (or with pulse, depends on which one has issues) and commit to the repository

But then you need the pins and repositories you had before. I end up pasting a long ass chain of commands every time I get a VPS up just to set it up.

Me too, the windows drive is in the garage

Pirate it

You thought so, but in year 2525 they will still be complaining about TCP congestion mechanisms