Using Windows is terrible right now, but we’ve spent so much time using it that we developped workarounds and knowledge of the OS.

When you switch to Linux, it’s a different OS altogether, and that’s not counting the different flavors.

So yeah, all that to say that the pain and friction pass quite rapidly and you are left with an uncluttered OS (until you fill it up with useless crap).

Corpos have worked so hard at making the UX “seamless” that people aren’t used to fiddling with the computer anymore.

NVIDIA didn’t ask to shut it down, but AMD lawyer probably weren’t that hot to what the project had become and AMD asked the creator to shut down the project l, which he did.

But yeah, lots of work wasted caused by pencil pushers and bean counters.

AMD asked them to shut it down. So the guy is going to go back to the pre-AMD release and work independently from there.

RAM is still memory, so you can put anything in there, like an OS.

With pivot_root, you can change where the root is. So you pivot into your OS in RAM, which becomes the root of the system.

At that point, you can do pretty much anything you would normally do with your OS, like unmount a HDD.

I’ve never personally done it, but that’s a simplified explanation of what OP did.

My plan is to build a second server that I will leave at my inlaws’ house and use that, but for now, I will rent a cloud while this happens.

Photos was part of my plan, so mega.nz isn’t an option. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I like the thought of having timed backups to keep the costs lower by pruning the olds backups.

Thanks, from another link in this thread, Borg seems to have wrapper options as a complement to its features.

Never heard of it, but I will look into it. Thanks

Thats a great link, it lists a lot of options and gives a good explanation on how to setup the author’s choices.

Thanks for the information, I will look into that.

My goal is that if for whatever reason, my homelab is compromised, I will be able to at least restore my important data.

If i can modify the data on the other end, but cannot from my proxmox, then its fine.

I would like a offsite solution in the future, but for now it’s going to be a cloud for data blob only.

Have you tried to install Ubuntu recently? It is as straight forward as it is.

It is not a complicated process no matter how you look at it.

The process to install Ubuntu vs Windows is pretty much the same.

Create a user, choose a timezone, connect to Wi-Fi or LAN and wait for setup to finish. It is not complicated by any mean.

As I mentioned, most people never install an OS in their life, so they don’t know how to create a boot drive and install an OS.

So the issue isn’t that installing Linux is complicated, it’s that installing an OS on an empty drive is not a thing that the vast majority of pc users has done or will ever do.

It is easier more than ever to install linux today.

The issue boils down to the fact that the number of people that never installed an OS is pretty high.

Most people buy their laptop and roll with the OS installed. Microsoft paid a lot to be the default choice and we have the market we have today.

But if you check your email and browse internet, any OS will work.

The strength and weakness of Linux, is that there is many ways to skin a cat. But it can get confusing really fast, even if you are tech savvy.

Habits die hard and Microsoft and Apple were pretty good at capturing the market.

I agree, but we should always compare to what is better and strive for that. Otherwise we get the situation today where the argument to take a product over another is that it’s less bad than the old one

It’s not because you compare Teams to something worse that Teams isn’t terrible.

Vim is unintuitive. If you are a new linux CLI user and follow some tutorials that tells you to run vim, modify something then save and exit, it can be daunting.

If you cannot comprehend why people are outraged at a product they used getting degraded, not sure what to tell you.

It’s in the second paragraph. This is the beginning of the monetization for everything in Plex now that they have a good user base. They are starting to ramp up the milking.

It will become like any other shitty streaming service eventually.