SerpentOS is it’s own thing. It’s from the same guy who made Solus which was also it’s own thing.
Look up Ikey Doherty if you want to know more.
From my experience with Solus, I don’t have high hopes for SerpentOS but I’d love to be wrong about that
I got an Odroid H4+ and have been extremely happy with it. I’m sure Beelink or GMKtec mini PCs on Amazon would also be fine but I wanted SATA ports for harddrives.
If you end up going with the Odroid, let me know and I’ll send you the links to the few things you’ll need to get going
tldr: keep your smart home seperate from your services and avoid RPI unless you need it specifically for a project
If I were in your shoes, starting from scratch, with the knowledge I have now, I would avoid a raspberry pi and get 2 computers with an Intel N100 (or N97 or N300). Sips electricity and more powerful than a rasberry pi.
A raspberry pi is fine for lights, switches, sensors, a few cameras etc. But if you are at all interested in one day using the voice assistant stuff, the Raspberry pi just isn’t powerful enough.
I suggest 2 computers because once you have home assistant set up, you’ll want to treat it like an appliance. You don’t want to take down your entire smart home because you broke Pixelfed or another service you get into and have to troubleshoot. Speaking from experience, your family won’t appreciate the smart home not working 😓.
Leaves the help/tips app icon in the dock. Proof Mark Rober is a psychopath.
I’ve seen some youtubers recommend OnShape. It’s a browser based CAD app so it should work fine.
I always forget. Can we do a release upgrade to this or do we have to wait until 24.04.1?
Edit: Nvm. You can update today
sudo do-release-upgrade
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As far as config files go, I haven’t gotten around to automating those so I usually search my nas for old ones and copy/paste what I need
Why choose OpenBSD over FreeBSD? Any noticeable differences? I know it’s supposed to be a more security focused BSD but I hear it has fewer maintainers? The idea of a BSD appeals to me but the hardware compatibility holds me back. Just curious what your experience is like
In the US, corporations are people
I appreciate what KDE is doing with their DE, I’m glad it exists but it’s not for me either. I only suggest it because it’s surprisingly light on resources for the amount of customization options you get.
Since it’s your first time, my first suggestion is to try Xubuntu (Ubuntu with XFCE desktop) or Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE desktop and generally more popular than Xubuntu). Both distributions are lighter on resources and they have an Ubuntu base which means there’s a ton of documentation online so if you run into problems, you will have plenty of resources.
Alpine is small for sure but it is more niche and it doesn’t use systemd which most major distributions use which means if you happen to run into weird issues, your pool of resources will be smaller. Don’t get me wrong, Alpine is great but I wouldn’t recommend it for new users. I don’t know anything about Puppy Linux; maybe it’s fine?
If your machine can’t run Xubuntu or Kubuntu, then worry about trying more niche distros like Alpine or Puppy.
If you run into issues, feel free to ask questions. The community is generally nice but you’ll want to try fixing it yourself first and then including what you tried in your post to get a better reception.
Embrace the terminal. It’s daunting at first but it’s such a powerful tool. Don’t use sudo with every command. Don’t paste random command in the terminal without doing a little research to understand what they do. Again, ask if you need help, you won’t learn everything overnight.
Good luck!
Edit: Linux Mint is also probably a good choice. Never used it myself but I’ve heard good things.
Hardware. I do all my work on a laptop and those Apple M series processors have been amazing for performance and battery life. I’ll stick with a Mac until those Qualcomm X Elite CPUs start getting shipped in Windows laptops next year. After using this Mac for the past year, I think I prefer Windows and WSL over MacOS or Linux. This whole post only applies to laptops though; Linux on desktop and servers for life.
Plex
At the time, Windows was updating and restarting whenever it felt like it which would stop my Plex server from running until I logged back in. Windows and Macs are now just thin clients that allow me to connect to all my Linux servers.
You got a power button too /s
Sort of. I still haven’t been able to snag the top of the line CM4 (WiFi, 8gig ram, 32 gig emmc). I’ve seen a handful of CM4s with different configs that I don’t want. But for the 4B, yeah they can be bought now.
Edit: haven’t been able to snag one in my region*
I did it a few years ago, although I had an AMD GPU.
It works surprisingly well but games that require anti-cheat software (ex. Valorant) won’t work.
The only other good solution that wasn’t mentioned in your post is to just buy and maintain a dedicated windows box. Short of that, GPU passthrough is a great option
If you know iptables, just stick with that. In my testing, docker containers seem to ignore ufw rules. Supposedly, iptable rules are respected but I haven’t learned iptables yet so I can’t verify.