Think about why you joined Lemmy. Reddit has been getting greedier and greedier, so you left to a place where the grass is greener. The same thing is true with Windows and Linux (and Linux is also much more big and mature than Lemmy). It attracts the same kind of people.

I once read that the license should be smaller than your code. Gives me a good baseline:

• Permissive license for small projects and little tests

• Copyleft license for big projects

True, plus the bloated websites I see are using hundreds of thousands of lines of JavaScript. Why would you possibly need that much code? My full fledged web games use under 10,000.

I make sure my own web game can run smoothly on crappy hardware. It runs well on my gaming laptop downclocked to 400MHz with a 4x slowdown set by Chrome. It also loads in a couple seconds with a typical crappy Internet connection of 200kbps and >10% packet loss. However, it doesn’t run smoothly on my Snapdragon 425 phone or my old Core 2 Duo laptop. Is this my game or just browser overhead?

Unfortunately, XOS has already been taken by Infinix, a budget phone brand that primarily sells in Africa, for its own ad-riddled bloated Android skin.

It’s not about paying for Windows, usually it’s included in the device you buy. The real reason why Linux helps broke people is because bloated Windows can’t run on the budget PCs they have (and they can’t just buy a faster computer)

That’s what I use? Am I in the clear?

As someone who has used all 3, MacOS is the worst overall. It combines the closed source nature of Windows with the limited software availability of Linux, and requires expensive hardware to run (look at the RAM/storage markups), and goes out of support artificially, just like Windows, and also is the least customizable out of the 3.

The only thing Mac is best for is if you have a lot of money, and either really hate Windows and need certain proprietary apps or are a prosumer or professional using Apple’s professional software like Final Cut Pro and the like.

But for everything else, Windows and Linux does what MacOS does but better.

• Basic computer for web browsing? Linux
• Need that specific niche app? Windows, optional dual boot with Linux if you hate Windows
• Gaming? Windows is best and Linux is close behind, but MacOS is not even in the race
• Development? Linux all the way

I dual boot Windows and Linux (on 2 separate SSDs), and I think it’s the best option for me.

I’m not super knowledgeable on this, but I chose Dynadot because it’s cheap and WHOIS privacy is included.

Maybe I should just cloud host, as it costs the same as a VPN. But then again, a VPN will also protect my privacy. Do I need to use let’s encrypt if I use a VPN or cloud host if I want to be secure?

1. I want it to be internet accessible. A friend taught me how to use nginx for the local network, although I’ve forgotten that now.
2. My previously mentioned computers are computers I don’t use that much, especially the old laptop. My main computer is a 2021 ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition. I won’t be hosting from that.
3. Private networking is just hosting over a LAN, right?
4. Does Docker work well on old hardware and is Docker easy to learn?
5. I have the most knowledge on Ubuntu based distros. I don’t think Manjaro, a bleeding edge rolling distro, is good for hosting.
6. How do I use let’s encrypt or something to boost my security?

I am experimenting with Linux on two devices: My daily driver laptop and a desktop.

The laptop is set on a dual boot from 2 SSDs. The first SSD contains Windows and has one 2TB NTFS partition. The other SSD has a 250GB partition for ext4 where Ubuntu lives and a 750GB partition for ExFAT.

The desktop has a 500GB SSD with ext4 for the OS, and has two 4 year old 2TB HDDs for data. This is why I’m trying to run them in RAID 1. For cross compatibility (and what they were already formatted as), they are in NTFS.

What do you think of that? Am I using adequate filesystems?

What is LVM?

I’m still figuring it out. I know ExFAT works across all desktop OS’s, NTFS works with Linux and Windows, and ext4 only works with Linux.

But it took a half hour of googling to figure out you can’t install Linux on NTFS. I planned to do that to ease cross platform compatibility. Oops. I’m also attempting a RAID 1 array using NTFS. It seems to work, but I’m not sure how to automatically mount it on boot. I feel like I might have picked the wrong filesystem.

I guess I’m open minded because I’m a noob with Linux yet I’ve worked with XFCE, LXQt, KDE, and GNOME (in that order), and none of them were a pain, except possibly LXQt, which was super clunky to customize, but it ran amazing on weak hardware, so I’m giving it a pass. I reckon I’d be cool with Cinnamon, MATE, Unity, or even one of the lightweight DE’s.

Yet, all of these DEs I’ve used were on Ubuntu based distros. I feel afraid to encounter weird things with other distros. For example, doesn’t DaVinci Resolve only run on Ubuntu based distros?