How?
I dual boot and use the command line a similar amount in both. cmd and powershell in windows are super useful for troubleshooting things that don’t work, or setting configuration options that are just not possible from the GUI, like disabling the hiberfil
Windows error messages are usually something to pay attention to if they generate a popup. But you can ignore most errors and warnings in the event viewer.
Linux is the same. If you get a popup, look into that, but if you see warnings or errors in a logfile then they can most likely be ignored if the app is working
“Choose LVM and encrypt that volume, you little slut”
Yes, it’s possible
You need a SIP trunk to connect to and a PBX server. I would also recommend a proxy server to obfuscate your SIP server as it will be constantly attacked.
It doesn’t technically need its own network, but having it on its own VLAN is recommended as you will want to have some QoS policies for the UDP voice traffic otherwise your call audio will be choppy
This would turn the Internet into a hell scape if only because corporations could throw huge amounts of money around.
There would be incentive for the Pizza Huts and the Walmarts of the world to just assume control of the websites for any local competitors.
Domain squatting is incredibly scummy, but I have no idea how it would be possible to have any other system.
My understanding is that domains do expire unless you pay the fee to renew for another year.
Regarding unused domain names, how would anyone know if a particular name is being unused? Domain names are used for more things than browsable websites. You’d have to have a system that could determine if traffic is going to those names, which seems bad from a privacy standpoint and also pretty easy to script around.
I’ll switch to Wayland once it becomes the default in the distro I happen to be using that month. Not before.
The point I was trying to make is that if you ever want to do something that is not covered with an out of the box install, it’s typically far harder to do in Linux than in Windows (although my ~15 years as a windows sysadmin probably bias my opinion)
Windows is turning into a telemetry nightmare because about 10 years ago Microsoft figured out that they could sell ad space and monetize user data, so I’m trying to get off the platform before my LTSC install hits EOL. But I have to admit it’s a hard path.
I am currently dual booting and trying to get feature parity in my Linux install as a reletave newbie.
So far the largest hurdle I’ve been able to solve was getting my RAID array recognized. That sent me down a rabbit hole.
To get it working in Linux I needed to:
To get it working in Windows I needed to:
I agree that for this size of network AD is definitely not something you want to deal with unless you want to learn how it works.
However, I’m not sure it really increases attack vectors to have it running, outside of the fact that it’s a new network service on the LAN. The out of the box default configuration is not bad these days, security-wise
Hosting documentation on Discord is like hosting it on IRC.
While a useful tool in its own right, it’s entirely the wrong choice for this job.
It’s also pretty hard to get malware without network capabilities
There are a few things that determine the amount of RAM your PC can handle.
Simplest is the amount of slots on the Mobo. It’s hard to put extra RAM into a machine if there is nowhere to plug it in.
Next is the motherboard limitation. This is mostly based on the type of RAM it takes. DDR4 has a maximum size of 64GB per DIMM and DDR5 maxes out at 512GB per DIMM
Finally and most crucially is the CPU. CPUs have onboard memory controllers these days and they can only handle the amount of RAM that they can address. This value changes from CPU to CPU so you’ll want to check the specs for the model you have.
If you go over the supported amount, the PC will likely just fail to POST and never boot. If it does boot it will just ignore the extra RAM and never actually use it.
To be fair, comparing terminal to the registry is not comparing apples to apples. The registry is more like a complicated config file full of barely documented options. Still miserable to work in, but that’s beside the point.
The terminal equivalent to windows is Powershell which id say is much more favorable.