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@Mantikal 15 күн бұрын
Great video. Maybe you can also do a video on "GPG Key and Key Ring Hell"- - expired - missing - mismatches - 3rd party - invalid signatures
@retiredtechie 15 күн бұрын
Thank you for commenting. Yes, key ring hell is a real thing. The problem is that it is not the software. I have done some testing with the actual software, and while it can be a bit complicated, it works okay, the big issue is there are different ways to do things. The problems tend to fall squarely with the maintainers, or lack there of. From my point of view the main issue is for the various projects and distributions there is not specific dedicated maintainer of the key rings. So the package maintainers can create keys in different ways. This is a good topic, so i will do some more research on the subject. Hopefully when I do a video it will not sound like a string of complaints.
@igfoobar 16 күн бұрын
ProxMox is a good product for beginners but it should be considered training wheels. It doesn't do anything that Linux and native tools can't do on their own.
@retiredtechie 16 күн бұрын
For myself I would tend to agree. Which is why i will probably be going back to virsh. However I would also argue that there are a lot of people out there who really do not want to get under the hood, so to speak. And need a solution like Proxmox, at least until they run into an issue requiring the command line.
@igfoobar 16 күн бұрын
I began with virt-manager, but the nice thing is that once libvirtd is running you can work it with lots of different tools.
@igfoobar 16 күн бұрын
Quoting Thomas edison is bad form. We now know that he was the Bill Gates of his day -- lying, cheating, stealing, and always running to the patent office with other people's ideas.
@retiredtechie 16 күн бұрын
Also a womanizer. And people also quote Bill Gates also
@igfoobar 16 күн бұрын
Bill Gates is the worst person in the world and should receive zero respect.
@adubs. 16 күн бұрын
You might give unraid a try. They let you play with it for 30 days for free. It's similar to proxmox but maybe less friction to the virtual machine/docker configuration. Another alternative would be debian running cockpit and casaos as a means of creating virtual machines and running docker shenanigans. YMMV RE: Remote administration. I'm not sure what purpose it serves to have an unprivileged account you must elevate for root/sudo/admin vs just logging in as said admin. The whole point of that web interface is for management of the system, so 'when needed' is irrelevant because you would only need to log in when you need to change something? Unless you're talking about remote being outside of your lan, in which case there are better tools for locking this down. It would generally be frowned upon to forward your server web management to the internet directly. I put most things behind nginx reverse proxy with password protection on top of my password protected management interface.
@BenReese 16 күн бұрын
I'm fairly new to Proxmox, but very happy with it so far. You say it isn't right for your current use case, but what is your current use case? Almost sounds like Windows with Hyper-V would be better for you? But then you don't get any hardware pass-through (I don't think).
@retiredtechie 16 күн бұрын
Thanks for posting. I did try hardware pass through with proxmox on my laptop, and was not thrilled with results, hence I still dual boot. On my servers all access is via https or ssh, so hardware pass through is not an issue. My use case, that proxmox does not fulfill, is that I like doing things a certain way. With virsh, and even vert-manager, I was able to do everything I needed in the way I wanted. If there was one thing I would want to see on proxmox, because I do on occasion log in from outside my network, it would be removal of root log in and the ability too elevate permissions when needed for a non privileged user within the application itself.
@BenReese 16 күн бұрын
@@retiredtechie that makes sense. I just use a VPN so I'm never accessing from "outside" my network. Tailscale is so incredibly easy to setup and use, I've got no good reason NOT to use a VPN. Tailscale installs on one Linux or Windows machine and can broadcast routes to the whole network or just specific endpoints. There's an open-source/self-hosted Tailnet server if you don't want to trust their's.
@espressomatic 16 күн бұрын
IMO, everything in Proxmox is counter-intuitive. Anyone I see using it successfully is using scripts to perform installs. No bueno. I've tried to deploy it at least a half dozen times and every time gave up after a day. It's my most despised server-based app/OS. Instead I've spun up Unraid on multiple systems for nothing more than managing VMs with KVM/QEMU. An easy to use ui to manage onboard ZFS datasets is a bonus (Unraid 7 and newer only).
@jamesklinger1039 16 күн бұрын
There are alot of people that will be moving to Proxmox with ESXi and Broadcoms tight fist.
@retiredtechie 16 күн бұрын
Thank you for posting. I would agree to a certain extent. Proxmox is a good program. My point is it is not the end all solution. One needs to look at what they want to do and the hardware they are running before deciding on a specific application or direction. I would encourage anyone starting with Proxmox, as well as any other solution, to keep at it for several months at least, to get over the initial learning curve.
@almc8445 16 күн бұрын
I used HyperV mostly at my first job, ran a few ESXi instance at home, used Azure, Linode, AWS, and GCP, and now I’ve run proxmox at home for the past 2 years. I don’t really like PM compared to ESXi - Needing to do things like disk passthrough in the shell just seems a bit backwards to me, if I wanted to do that I’d just go back to grass roots, QEMU. IMO this is part of a broader pattern in PM of things just being rather unintuitive.
@retiredtechie 16 күн бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I also have had issues having to go back to the command line with Proxmox. When I was using virsh it was all the same, command line. I will say that in teh six months I was using Proxmox, I have seen a few features introduced that helped alleviate having to go back to the command line. However the progress in this area seems particularly slow.
@SyberPrepper 17 күн бұрын
Interesting video. thanks for giving your specifics. I have Proxmox running on a desktop PC, TrueNAS Scale running on another. I had great plans to run Nextcloud, Plex, Blue-Iris, and multiple versions of Linux and Windows on it. So far, I mainly have a few Ubuntu and Pop-OS VMs for testing. To me the disk type thing in Proxmox is confusing. Most of the time, I don't care if I am going to store backups, or large files, etc. when I create a drive. I would like to have the time to delve into that topic more closely. I understand why it would be important, but wonder why I don't see this on other software as much. Probably just my lack of knowledge of this feature being expressed. I use VMware at work and have thought about running that at home to replace Proxmox or running it virtually under Proxmox. Just haven't got around to it. Working lots of overtime lately at work. TrueNAS Scale has lots of neat things. One thing I find confusing is the ACL's. Probably will get more clear as I use it more.
@retiredtechie 16 күн бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I have not worked with TrueNAS that much (more experience with OMV). My understanding of TrueNAS ACL is an attempt at universal access control across different systems with different requirements. It is an interesting idea.
@pepeshopping 18 күн бұрын
Correct! Proxmox is great! But IT IS NOT AN APPLIANCE! I settled with TrueNAS, virtio and dockage.
@retiredtechie 18 күн бұрын
My mistake, meant to say application.
@retiredtechie 18 күн бұрын
Whats your opinion of TrueNAS? I played Open Media Vault a little a few years back. Are you using TrueNAS or TrueNAS Scale?
@igordasunddas3377 16 күн бұрын
I have been running TrueNAS Scale for some time - it apparently has better driver support than the Core variant, that's based on FreeBSD. I was happy with it, though I somewhat like Ubuntu Server (after removing Snap).
@jagertee 16 күн бұрын
We run Proxmox on an enterprise scale cluster with hundreds of VMs.
@richdemars9302 19 күн бұрын
Linux simply Rocks, I use RichARCH btw. With it I was able to get Arch Linux up and running simply and quickly with kickstart like automation features.
@SyberPrepper Ай бұрын
Great foundational stuff!
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
Thank you for commenting
@SyberPrepper Ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. I had not reviewed the directory structure for a long time and it was great that you showed the links to other directories with pwd -P. I also enjoyed how to discussed where some of the terms or programs came from, or why they were named a certain way. Well done.
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
Thank you for your comments.
@NoeOlleta Ай бұрын
12:12 how to save sir?
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
Are you referring to editing the /etc/systemd/timesyncd file? That will depend on the text editor being used. For VIM and VI if you press the shift key + colon key (:), then type wq (for write and quit), that will save the file. If you are using nano, then it would be control + W (though i do not know if nano is in the Arch installer or not).
@TheLonelyMoon Ай бұрын
nixos-fedora-endeavour-nixos-arch its been a month since i switched to arch, its been two months since i switched off of windows. i love linux, i cant imagine myself using windows again
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
Thanks for the comments. Interesting journey you have been on.
@Blessed2bFresh Ай бұрын
glad to meet you Sir
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
Thank you for commenting
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
Thank you for commenting
@Basserino84 Ай бұрын
A lot of people who don't want to hop seem to jump to FreeBSD. Myself, I started hopping straight out of the gate but I landed on pop os for desktop but like Zorn os on laptop. Zorin is the best out of the gate. Edit: since we're discussing virtualization, in school I learned based of Puppy and Kali. But personally if you know what you're saving, the best teacher is bare metal. You learn exactly what your hardware is and isn't good for.
@thiesenf Ай бұрын
Use bulletPoints instead of reading the whole script... You're an old guy (so am I... 1971 was the year all hell Broke loose)... your education should have taught you to use bulletpoints from which you can improvise... Or you can use some kind of Powerpoint-like presentation software (LibreOffice's presentation program for example)... that way you totally both can read it aloud and show It on the screen at the same time...
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
Thank you for your feedback. I do start with a bullet list, but it usually rapidly get out of control as I keep adding stuff I want to make sure I mention. When I was teaching, lecture was not my best format. I preferred lively group interactions. What I find funny, being an old guy, young people keep telling me I am not old. It's only old people that tell me, yeah, your old like us.
@swagmuffin9000 Ай бұрын
while distrochooser isn't amazing, it could also help if you aren't sure about some distro's packaging formats, free vs closed, init software, etc. remember using it a lot back when i would hop
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
Interesting, I have have never used Distrochooser. Just gave it a test run. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Kind of interesting results, pretty much what I would chose on my own, with one or two surprises.
@4megii Ай бұрын
Great Video, I'm wanting to get properly started with homelab stuff. I tried Proxmox, and for the hardware I have right now. I don't think it's a good choice, and I think I can just do a lot of what I want with Docker. Any advice? Thanks!
@retiredtechie Ай бұрын
I have worked with docker some. The biggest issue I have is with their network setup, some times it can be a little finicky complicated. By the way, have you looked at Podman? If you are planning to run a remote headless server, podman is supported by cockpit (remote server management web GUI). While i am currently running a Proxmox cluster, I will be moving away from it. I promised myself I would run it for at least six months and I did. To me Proxmox seems more of an enterprise or large NAS solution, and there are a lot of things I don't like about its interface. I do like how Proxmox handles containers though. I do agree Proxmox can be overkill for simpler hardware setups, like what I am currently using. I will most likely go back to a cockpit managed server with libvert (also manageable from cockpit) and podman. By the way what hardware are you using? Thanks for commenting.
@4megii Ай бұрын
Hardware wise: Servers: Dell Micro 7050, Lenovo M710q Router: Netgear R7800 Nighthawk flashed with OpenWRT Also a 'NAS' (old desktop with mismatched drives with TrueNAS) not currently in use. I'm considering getting an actual server for some storage and possibly a GPU for AI LLM stuff.
@4megii Ай бұрын
I haven't looked at Podman, but I do know about cockpit. I'll have a look into both of them. It might solve my issues with writing compose files. Haha. Thanks.
@JohnDoe1999-lg7mh Ай бұрын
Been using Proxmox VE for many years now. I chose Proxmox over XCP-NG as it better fitted my needs. 95% is Linux VM/LXC with 3 win10 VMs. Most linux stuff is running 100% of the time. Only one Win10 is always running, the other only when needed which is infrequent. My smaller Proxmox system runs supporting apps for my smart home (Home Assistant) like MQTT, ESPHome, Node-Red and Zigbee2MQTT.
@sugar.066 2 ай бұрын
really nice
@retiredtechie 2 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot
@thiesenf 2 ай бұрын
Teleprompter!!! 45 degree agnled glass pane in front of your camera... a tablet that let's you mirror (badtum tish) the text... and then look straight into the camera and you can read your script easily at the same time...
@retiredtechie 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comments and feedback. I will explore the option you suggest.
@johnlaroche2643 2 ай бұрын
I remember back in the military days, I had the Sos a lot and still make it today. I enjoy a couple of fried eggs on top of it. Good 1st video explaining step by step. You need to make some Philippine food also.
@retiredtechie 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for the comment. It is tough form me to cook Filipino food. Always end up with two or three people telling me what to do, all at the same time. American food is quieter min the kitchen, as almost no one knows how to fix it. May try to talk my nice into helping/doing a video on adobo, sinigang or arroz caldo.
@SyberPrepper 2 ай бұрын
Great video with lots of functional examples. Thanks.
@retiredtechie 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment.
@anthonykot 2 ай бұрын
“Jesus would likely be a Linux user”
@retiredtechie 2 ай бұрын
👍👍👍
@SyberPrepper 2 ай бұрын
You really put a lot of information into this video. I'm glad you put timestamps in your video for later reference. This is a big topic so I'm guessing it took a while to just decide what to put in and what not to put in. Of course, do what you want on your upcoming videos. I think I would be most interested in a more hands on video about partitioning. Also important is how to clean off a drive after it has been in a RAID Set. I seem to recall having problems clearing off drives that had been in a ZFS array. I had to clear off the first or last block or something before I could reuse the drives. Thanks for the great video.
@retiredtechie 2 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I have also had issues restoring drives that were used for both LVM and RAID. That is an interestting subject for a video. Thanks for the idea.
@uweburger 2 ай бұрын
Use wipefs -a /dev/sdX to clean your disk or partition.
@snoopyrobot5993 3 ай бұрын
is that jazz fusion you got playing? whatever it is, super nice!
@retiredtechie 3 ай бұрын
I would clasify it more as adult contemporary. When I think of Jazz Fusion, bands like Spyro Gyro come to mind.
@bertnijhof5413 3 ай бұрын
Type 2 hypervisors are the last 14 years not really slower than type 1 hypervisors. Nowadays you could say; type 1 is an hypervisor integrated in the Host OS kernel and the type 2 hypervisor is mostly extended to full OS functionality, like e.g. support for application containers. Xrandr is not supported by Wayland. You should install the Virtualbox Guest Additions to avoid the old fashioned Xorg use of xrandr. Afterwards you can move the VM-Windows like any application window and CTR+F expands it to full screen and it works the same for Windows :) Virtualbox will remember the last size and location of the VM window and at next boot it will use it as default position and size.
@retiredtechie 3 ай бұрын
Thank you for the advice. I would agree that once a VM is running, there is no real noticeable speed differences. However, it has been my experience that a VM starts faster under type 1 hypervisors. I have run identical VMs on Proxmox and Virtual Box, and on Proxmox, they always start faster. I appreciate the tip on wayland and Virtual Box. I need to take a look at how to run Wayland on LMDE. Did not really see anything in the install to choose.
@bertnijhof5413 3 ай бұрын
@@retiredtechie Proxmox is not a true type 1 hypervisor, since it runs in the Debian server. Proxmox speed is probably caused by the memory cache of the OpenZFS file system, that it uses by default for VMs. ZFS has a very advanced memory cache (L1ARC) and it uses half or more of the memory. Probably I achieve the same speed with Ubuntu; OpenZFS and Virtualbox. Boot times are 6.5 seconds for Xubuntu and 11 seconds for Ubuntu on the 2nd slowest Ryzen ever, the Ryzen 3 2200G. I see a 99% memory cache hit rate for disk IO, it is like running the VM from a RAM disk. I notice these type of details, because I worked in IT system development from 1969 till 2011.
@retiredtechie 3 ай бұрын
Interesting. I have been running VirtualBox on Windows 11, NTFS is not the most efficient file system out there. When I get the chance, I will install it on a Linux system. I would expect the performance to increase with a more efficient file system. I started out as an electronics technician back in 76. My first real experience with computers was having to hack PDP8s in the early 80's. I retired from my last job as a systems engineer.
@bertnijhof5413 3 ай бұрын
@@retiredtechie I think you already know the performance on Linux, because you know Proxmox. If we just compare Proxmox to my solution: - Both systems run a Debian based OS (Debian Server and Ubuntu Desktop minimal install, only system utilities + Firefox) - Both run OpenZFS as file system for the VMs - Proxmox runs KVM and I run Virtualbox in both cases 3 kernel modules are used for the hypervisor tasks. The core of both systems are almost the same, so I would expect more or less the same performance, unless on one side one of the programmers has been a genius. The main difference would be the handling of graphical displays. In Proxmox you run a remote display, using the Windows RDP protocol. In my case you have the choice: You either use the RDP protocol for a remote display or the display is on the same PC and Virtualbox uses a VMWare SVGA driver with some 3D acceleration for e.g simple Linux games like Super Tux Kart. If you use ext4 for the Host OS to store the VMs, I expect it would be slower than OpenZFS, because you miss that large lz4 compressed memory cache for the disk IO. You can see, what my main hobby has been after 2011. Ubuntu since 2008; Virtualbox since 2009 and OpenZFS since 2018. My oldest still used VM, is Windows XP Home from March 2010, it survived 2 VBox owners; 3 Desktops and 4 CPUs :).
@ilficherrimolori 4 ай бұрын
the real reason I ditro-hop isn't the distro it's because installing Linux is like a drug.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
I hear that. Try having multiple distros running in VM's sometime for a rush!
@fabricio4794 4 ай бұрын
Linux Mint the"ak47"from the Linux distros it never jams
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment
@awuuwa 4 ай бұрын
Calling it religious is the wrong term for it. There is a better term "fanatic"
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
I won't argue with that term. I have meet a few who were (to quote Commander Cody) lost in the ozone. Thank you for your comment.
@awuuwa 4 ай бұрын
@@retiredtechie But are we discussing the philosphical views that people have in general, or some specific possible cracy people who may exist in any group or community? I'm sure there are some cracy cult followings that Apple has. And likely there are some who like MS WIndows for some reason. Or is the idea that merely having a philosophical stance itself is the problem?
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
I would say the problem is the same for every group. It is good to have a stance. However, it becomes bad when one loses perspective. I remember when Debian first switched to systemd. Some of the arguments were brutal. Sometimes, people just need to step back and evaluate what they are obsessing over.
@awuuwa 4 ай бұрын
@@retiredtechie I wasn't on the scene yet when Debian switched to SystemD, but I would say they made a poor choice in going with it. I prefer Devuan over Debian. Now I don't know what specific things someone would have said on the topic back then, but if you don't care for a good Unix system, and are therefore fine with SystemD then perhaps you just inherently don't see the problem with it. Being against SystemD is not losing perspective on anything, if anything one has lost the perspective on what it means for an operating system to be unix-like if they are in favour of it.
@THE_TROLLS_WIN_BOY 4 ай бұрын
Just switched from mint to Debian enjoying it
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I have used Debian for a long time, it was my second distro, after Mandrake Linux (which became part of mandiva linux).
@johanb.7869 4 ай бұрын
Linux is great once you get used to it. I did. User since 2017. Settled on MX Linux Xfce.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I am currently testing MX Linux KDE version on a VM. So far it has been it has been very interesting. MX has so many cool modifications.
@siocdenarf1010 4 ай бұрын
i wanted to give you the thumb up for a very good audio quality :)
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. It is appreciated.
@siocdenarf1010 4 ай бұрын
Wrong, Mac OS is partialy open source under BSD License for the Darwin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Yes this is correct, that the Unix part is mostly open source. But it is also true that the User Interface and API's are closed source. And without those one is just running another UNIX box, not a MAC.
@CliffVillareal 4 ай бұрын
I have been a linux hater till 2018 when I discovered that this is not to be hated and to be embraced. Like any OS it is not perfect. Linux much more customizable and is not resource heavy. I now appreciate why users are now embracing Linux. Keep up the Videos.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comments.
@limbs1052 4 ай бұрын
Well said what's break the difference boundary of difference are "cross platform applications" dictate to stop theme W7 on Linux harassment has gone too far. Those Linux is not windows preachers are Gnome, Unity Ubuntu fanboy who slur W7 ugly for no reason they're overboard Windows haters unlike us windows refugee only hate W11 ugliness and privacy intrusive.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. Yes people like to dump on Windows. In the past it was mostly unwarranted. However Microsoft is doing their very best to make it applicable with the latest updates to WIN 11. Windows XP and Windows 7, in spite of many technical issues, were decent operating systems for most users.
@kelsonleandro7907 4 ай бұрын
can you make a video of some basic sample projects using the LAMP stack on debian12? I was using debian 11 with XAMPP, and everything was working fine...but somehow on debian 12 I have been running into some problems to display the projects on the browser on localhost. I've granted the basic permissions such as "chmod 755", even "chmod 777" to "/opt/lampp/htdocs/projectname" and later in the root directory "/opt/lampp/apache2/htdocs/projectname", but it didnt work (500 error).. I don't know what's happening, dont wanna downgrade but learn how to make it work on debian 12 (it could even be with the lamp stack installed saparetadly, but im a beginner yet..). Thanks for your videos btw!!
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. If you have any specific projects in mind, please let me know. Or do you just want something generic? I have not used XAMPP in a while, I find it better if one has the space to install virtual box and run the server in a VM (more real world). Without knowing more about your specific setup, I can only offer a few possible generic ways to fix a 500 error (this being a non specific error meaning the server has encountered a problem of some sort). You already checked your permissions. You should also check who owns the web folders. On Debian they should belong to www-data as user and group. Another possibility is a .htaccess file has become corrupt. If you delete it, and restart the web server a new generic one should be created. You can also check the web root address in the virtual host file to make sure it matches. Hope this helps.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Also, have you checked these videos?? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWW1eKiYh6mdqLs and kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5rOeGlqlM2AeZY
@sandrodellisanti1139 4 ай бұрын
Ciao and thank you for your nice Video, which i like to share at Telegram and at Tribel, i'm a Debian User since late 1998, many greetings from brunswick in germany and please stay safe 🙃
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Greetings to you also. Thank you for taking the time to comment. I hope you are doing well. Debian was my second distribution. I started on mandrake (The CD set was a gift from a friend who picked it up at a computer show) which became part of the mandiva project.
@fultonchain 4 ай бұрын
Thanks. I think you got a little out in to the woods with bootloaders and kernel stuff. I've been at this forever and still don't understand systemd but it's never been a blocker for installation. Anything anyone is going to install from an .iso is going to have sensible defaults, whether Wayland (it's here now, not 5-10 years) or not it should just work. It'll have a display manager and some sort of DE baked in. Whether KDE, Cinnamon, GNOME or Xfce there's gonna be something. You have to go out of your way to download a distro with a window manager and the vast majority of new users are going to go with some flavor of Debian, Fedora or Arch . Probably Debian. They're not watching this video if they want to run Void, NixOS or Gentoo and Hyprland. You get pretty detailed. I don't want to come off as critical and hope you take this constructively. I learned a lot and you obviously know what your talking about. There was just a lot of detail that I think most users will never need to dig into.
@fultonchain 4 ай бұрын
Wow. I sound like a dick. Take my like and subscribe along with my apologies.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I take your point. I may have missed the mark. I have had several interesting conversations with new users who have asked about things like systemd, mainly because someone threw the term out there. My intent was to point out that most of this is not relevant to new users, and they should not worry about them until they become more proficient. I think you are correct and I missed the mark there by not emphisising it enough. Anyway, thanks for the feedback.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
No problem
@SyberPrepper 4 ай бұрын
I'll bet this video took a long time to put together. Great job.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. Glad you liked the video.
@fus132 4 ай бұрын
Nice and to the point, one thing I'll mention is that with KeePass it's better to use KeePassXC, which is the most "cutting edge" fork/version and so more likely to receive security updates faster than the other two.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment and observation. I was not aware the other forks lagged behind so much. Gives me something else to study up on. Again thanks.
@neelsb7889 4 ай бұрын
Well done on this very useful video, which I will certainly share with family and friends to whom I recommend using a Linux system instead of Win... I have now subscribed to your channel and will watch out for your future videos. I use most of the same applications as you do, with the exception of GIMP... it has just never worked well for me, and I am very happy with the combo of Krita and Inkscape instead. Also, for video editing, I use OpenShot which seems to have some more functionality over Kdenlive. You might also want to look at the free (apparently VERY popular and powerful) Davinci Resolve video editor. For managing music collections / playlists, etc. I can recommend both Musikcube (which has a TUI - Text User Interface, and is wonderful to use when you get used to the keyboard shortcuts) and Audacious (which took some inspiration from the old Winamp, and can even be set to look just like it). For file management, I use Double Commander, as I am used to working with 2-pane file managers since the old Norton Commander days... and Double Commander is very similar to Total Commander (the plugins are even compatible), but it is GPL-licensed FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). BTW I use all of these applications on both Win 10 and MX Linux (which is based on Debian Linux, but with some great enhancements, including a newer kernel which supports the latest hardware such as AMD Ryzen 7000, and with newer compiled packages than Debian 12). I can definitely recommend MX Linux to anyone who wants a stable, yet up to date Linux-based system, which just works..., as it works very well for me - also with Steam gaming. For communications, I mostly use Signal messenger - on Android, Win and Linux-based systems. I've also been trying Element on desktop and mobile, which uses the secure Matrix federated (non-central, privacy focused) network for communications (text messages, voice and video calls and chat servers and "rooms" - somewhat similar to Discord, but without the Big Tech and privacy concerns). Take care everyone.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comments. Some great ideas. I will give MX a try. I did use AntiX for a while back in the days shortly after Debian switched to systemd. Was kind of found of systemV as that was the init when I started with Linux. Your comments came at a perfect time as I am working on my distro selection post as I am testing several popular distros I have either not used in a while.
@mrsrhardy 4 ай бұрын
A simple question, Ive seen how proxmox can be used to run OSs side by side with pass through graphics for gaming or improving codec support but how can I select between these OSs on boot with preferably a graphics GUI with a custom icon would be nice. RFIED can it be used or does proxmox allow for it somehow already? The idea is to make my single desk PC into an OS powerhouse! Second Q, can I plug in a SSD with a clean install Windows and add it to proxmox as a boot option or must I VM/Install it?
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. I am going to make an assumptions, based on your question. The first assumption, you are interested in Proxmox on your main computer, rather than as a server running all the time. I am also assuming, for clarity, when you mention start at boot time, you are referring to system boot and not Proxmox startup, as that happen after system boot. For Proxmox you can set if a VM starts automatically, at Proxmox start up from the Options for that VM (Start at boot). However there is no way within the Proxmox interface to select individual VMs that have not bee set to automatically start. To do that, as Proxmox has shell commands, you wold probably need to write a scrip of some sort and run it at system boot. While I have never tried this, technically it should be possible, but it would get complex quickly. Because of the way current versions of MS Windows calculates device ID, if you tried plugging in a new install of windows done on a different computer, you will most likely have to go through a reactivation again. This will depend to some extent on the type of Windows License you are using. Form your question, I do want to ask, have you given any thought to multi-booting instead, where you can select an OS via the boot loader menu?
@Puw1ng 4 ай бұрын
You have the ability to become like Dave’s Garage. Keep it up! I like seeing more experienced people who were in the tech space do what they like with modern tech?
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment. Not sure about becoming like Dave's Garage. I am very much a casual poster.
@SyberPrepper 4 ай бұрын
I enjoyed the video and the many apps you highlighted. There were probably 5 that I had never heard of. I use Libre Office all the time and tried to convert my wife from Microsoft Word, but she didn't want to learn Libre. I will look into DigiKam. In the past I used Vegas for video editing and I've tried Kdenlive a bit. I think I may be going to try DaVinci Resolve next. Something that has made the switch from Windows or Mac to Linux for me and some others is to use them together. You can move over a bit at a time and it makes switching less scary by setting up Linux on an older laptop or desktop (as you mentioned). For example, I started with email. I forced myself to do all my email on Linux. Next, I made myself use the Browsers on Linux. I no longer did these things on Windows. Doing it this way gave me a comfort factor and allowed me to keep the transition to Linux going. Thanks.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comments. I played around with DaVinci Resolve a few years back (now that I think about it it was 2016 I think) for a work project. Back then NVIDIA support was, lets just say rough. So I used KDENLive. Both have come a long way since then, an it may be time to give DaVinci Resolve another try. Slow transitions are good for some people. Having the same app available and getting used to it on Windows can also really ease the transition. The learning curve is always the hardest to get over.
@snoopyrobot5993 4 ай бұрын
i like this channel
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind words.
@opywndow 4 ай бұрын
black screen is the best it has no bugs
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
Interesting idea. A person could literally solve all their Operating System issues by turning the computer off and leaving it off. Like all things it is a personal choice, and I am not sure how many people would be willing to do that!
@granitepenguin 4 ай бұрын
I'm computer agnostic; they all suck, just in different ways. :-) You may want to talk a bit about why you are choosing Debian over other distributions, since the first thing the average person will trip over is the large number of options out there for linux. You aren't choosing the OS as much as you are choosing the philosophy of the way it's managed. Which package manager, which window manager, etc are all impacted by the choice of distribution and can be very confusing.
@retiredtechie 4 ай бұрын
I take your point. Probably should have just said Linux. I do plan to spend at least one session (3rd or 4th one) discussing Linux Distributions. For new Linux users it is one of, if not the biggest, choices that will affect their initial overall experience.