If your library is on other platform like gog, epic, amazon or off platform .exe you can use heroic launcher and for most stuff it works just as well.

For some games there is a little more learning curve because you have to translate custom steam configurations found on protondb to do the same thing in heroic but overall you actually have way more control then steam.

The only reason “id think twice” is if you play lots of games with anticheat which does not work on every distro (like arch btw).

Psa: the reason Microsoft makes these tools linux friendly is because the know thats where the developers are at and they want them to stay familiar with their tools.

It also lowers the amount of fuss developers make when work forced them to use powershell etc because at least they can remote control and script from linux.

Whispers “try proxmox”

Dont give up on it! Its very feasible that yt starts attacking yt-dlp. Invidious is already obfuscated. The more alternatives the better.

I am running a few lxc which all run a docker container each.

What taxon said.

Most of my services have their own lxc with docker.

A few that need it are vms

It works so well i often forget how i set things up because its very leave and forget about it, Keeps working.

Proxmox all the way, cannot recommend it higher. I was very scared to try it in the beginning but its the best server choice i ever made.

You dont need to choose between lxc or docker. You can just run docker in lxc many helper scripts set you up like that by default.

Super technically they dont recommend doing so but i know others who do this and have never encountered a problem with it.

I am, that works really well actually and it even knows when the same file was moved.

But to add new files to that external library, which is in fact the only main library. We need to dig in immich file structure which at the very least enforces different directories per individual user and also uses those to store some forms of metadata.

We tried sharing a user in the beginning but the app did not seem to like that.

Now its not the biggest deal, just an annoyance. the fix i am currently thinking is to move the immich directory to somewhere hidden and us systemlinks to get all uploads centralized under a single directory for further processing.

I am aware and actually use this but it appears too restrictive for our needs.

The structure we were already using cannot be recreated. Honestly i could live with the default. But my partner who is less into computers likes to make their own backups on external hard drives and uses shared network drives rather then the immich web viewer.

This does not help you but it makes me think of this:

I understand why it makes technical sense to do so but immich storing things in a database in general is more nuisance then practical.

We want those fotos accessible in our own file system where we have full control of what is what.

Immich job is to put the pictures from a phone to the server and also to display all pictures within a certain directory.

It does a good job at both. Having your own file structure is not a problem and it seem to even know and adapt if pics get moved around.

But we have to manually move the photos out of its own structure into our own every time we do a big upload.

Maybe i can set something up with syslinks so it all appears centralized as a big “upload” folder to be sorted.

I am not sure whos advocate i am being here but theres class of vibe coding enthusiasts that get heavily demotivated by being told to do things a certain way.

The trade of for this chaos is. At least they how to code and participate in open source projects and once in a full moon some creative actually designs something nova and inspiring.

Looks like somehow could not afford their holographic gaming pc sticker skin for their mac pro tower.

Sucks to be you my friend.

You are entitled to this but I don’t understand why it makes a difference if the icon is above or below the url here.

If you have bookmarks hidden, thats an argument for a pretty bookmark manager.

Exactly, and if its important you just bookmark it.

I tend to shorten my bookmarks to just a space so in practice they are just a row of tiny icons anyway. They are always at the same spot and only take resources when needed.

I would love a vertical bookmark sidebar but for some reason we have to reinvent the wheel with tabs.

Can someone at least help me understand what tabs have that bookmarks don’t?

If i have more then 4 tabs open i get anxious because i can’t intuitively remember what each does. I have folders for categories of bookmarks.

One option that i am not sering here that is also very safe is install wireguard and allow them to use it via vpn.

I switched my main to linux about a year ago and install everything through terminal at this point.

I had to download something on a windows system once recently and i was not prepared with how backwards this entire process felt.

I cant understand how i had stuck with such bullshit for so long.

For new users the main question is not what operating system but what window manager as that is what shapes day to day user interaction. KDE plasma is a solid choice.

Installing it on a separate drive should be no problem. Just select the correct drive during install.

I use F10 to get to the boot menu on drive and select the drive it needs to boot from there. I have used it once in the last year and although it required many updates its still working.

This is like saying Linux can’t be viable because Microsoft spends an estimated 3-5 Bilion on windows annually.

To me, the value of the internet is in connecting people with freedom of expression. I don’t know what you believe any of us is gaining by letting google walk over us.

If we just stop playing along it looks like the enshitificated corpo owned sites are doing us one favor by isolating themselves from us, motivating innovation. But we wont be isolated from the net. We will be right here.

And if we look at historical references of a split internet. Facebook has an .onion version to be used with tor. So actually, they will still be chasing us. Because they need us way more then we need them.

I don’t think anyone here who talked about switching away from firefox even considered the chromium browsers as an alternative.

What the other comment also said its a baseless assumption that the forks wont live on without firefox. Thats just not how open source works.

New web technologies

Do you mean the ones that we are creating with the fediverse that are all equally open source or just those that google wants us to adopt?