how does pop handle touchscreen devices, do you know? The only machine I have left that I’d install something different on is my laptop, and its touchscreen but fully discretionary. The others are a server which I’m not touching because PITA, and a shitty ram-deficient thing I use for watching Plex in my bedroom, but it doesn’t run anything well at all for whatever reason - I tried antixlinux, mint, and a few other lightweight distros, and they all ran like shit. Probably failing hardware, idk.

Ubuntu handles touchscreen and hdmi output ok, it seems, but that laptop is still windows for now because idk if I need it to be windows for my next job… I guess I can reinstall it, since keys are hardware encoded now… for that device I don’t -really- need good file management, just compatibility.

I’ve thought about pop, but never really looked into it because nobody ever, like, recommends it for anything I guess? Like I never hear about it…

Just some blokes making sandwiches, nothing to see here.

I honestly wish I liked mint because there’s such a robust community for it, but I really can’t stand it. My first Linux experience a decade back or so was Ubuntu and it felt -right- like android. I liked it very much because it did all the things I needed, and it felt good to use, like something I was familiar with (android!). The power file management was an absolute bonus and I just love it so much. But it’s based on iOS allegedly? I fucking hate iOS on mobile but maybe it’s the macOS? Idk. It’s not at all like iPhone iOS at least.

And I haven’t found the same experience on any other distro despite trying several, so here’s me back to Ubuntu every time… because it feels good to use.

And “Ubuntu bad because reasons” and I get that for not me, but I don’t have the energy to figure out how to make Debian do what Ubuntu just already does. And the really niche distros I’ve tried idk how to make work for my needs, as noob.

At least it isn’t windows…

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If it goes by wonka physics where it needs to be shrunk down from like 10x size, you’d get such intense diarrhea you’d probably never walk again after shitting out your spine.

I had a puppy that specifically ate the crotch of all my underpants in the laundry. She was pooping out ladybugs and tye dye for days.

Well now I’ve got the banana song stuck in my head… (from memory so if I got any wrong, too bad)

Charlie, you look quite down, with your big sad eyes and your big fat frown, the world doesn’t have to be so gray.

Charlie, when your life’s a mess; when you’re feeling blue, always in distress, I know what will wash your sad away.

All you have to do is put a banana in your ear, you will never be happy if you live your life in fear.

It’s true, so true, when it’s in the world is bright and clear, the bad in the world is hard to hear when in your ear a banana cheers, so go and stick a banana in your ear!

ETA: video, cuz then I had to go listen to it anyway. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqwYzi_IG6k

When you say database, do you mean the OS and the server install? That’s my current setup; ssd for OS and anything that needs installing, with hdds for the actual content.

I’m sure docker is easier if you know it… that’s like the point, afaik, but while basic use might be easy, it’s… never ever that easy for me, something always goes wrong, which is why I haven’t bothered yet. I know I should, I know it’ll make things easier (hypothetically), but it feels like a huge undertaking for someone with no skills. I’ve been looking for a super noob friendly instruction guide, and have not found one that I can work with, tbh, without a bunch of other know-how that I don’t have. (If you know of any I’d be eternally grateful!!!)

The problem with testing is that the server computer and my other computers are suuuuper different for hardware. So I don’t think it would be a representative test.

I have an ancient enterprise (the hard drive had an oooold windows 7 install on, and it doesn’t run anything for shit, not really sure why at this point…), and a gaming-capable laptop (not like what I used to have from ibuypower way back in the early naughties when it was worth buying and not just alienware lite… but pretty decent for a mass-market laptop I guess.)

Server pc doesn’t match either of those capability-wise so whatever I try is going to be either boringly perfect or nonfunctional. So I’m looking to skip the test environment, ideally… I know that’s a bad idea, but I’m looking for like maybe 2 days downtime, and I’m only doing it now because I’m also upgrading my hard drives (I literally ran out of space on the 25tb I had so swapping a drive for a bigger one) in a way that kinda breaks the server anyway. More than that and I’ll get complaints from people who don’t get what I’m giving them, just that it doesn’t work… 🙄

I’m probably not into Ubuntu for the same reason, it’s stable and fine but… idk I don’t want a company potentially degrading my system for profit. I’d stay on windows for that. Already paid for it with the pc and all.

But you make a good argument for Debian; having guides. That would have been helpful context from the other comments, but I think I understand the recommendations now when core Debian is -not- recommended as a daily driver.

I appreciate your time friend! Your comment was super helpful… probably :)

That sounds pretty easy. I guess maybe docker is just this… like… monolithic thing everyone says you need to know and I… don’t…? So having the vm option is probably chill, thanks!

I’m sure it’s not as big as it seems, but it just… seems super overwhelming.

I’ll do some looking into that. It’s just been this… albatross. I’d love to have the rrs set up. I appreciate a non-docker starting point! Thank you!

That’s a pretty good vote, tbh. Thanks!

No docker knowledge at all. So I appreciate the info, genuinely :)

I actually know someone who used to use opensuse years ago. They are the ones that turned me on to Ubuntu, but despite (or because of) being a big-wig security pro, I doubt they remember much of it. :) so I’m just assuming I’m on my own with it.

I do flash media booting to test stuff, but I refuse to test on the actual host pc because there’s too much chance of fucking up (any chance is too much; I have no RAID backup, no backup at all, can’t afford that many drives and I’m playing fast and loose with it)… I don’t even plan to keep my drives installed when I swap, juuuust in case I fuck it up monumentally. Some of what I have is wildly difficult to find and came from the actual library in town…

I don’t know anything about docker, unfortunately. And I want this swapped before I have time to learn it.

It’s on my to-do to learn, but I haven’t found any good intro guides that make it accessible, and my uhh… “workflow” heh, works with that limitation. It’s very manual. Not ideal, but I haven’t yet had the energy to teach myself docker.

Let’s just say that I know nothing about docker and don’t plan to learn before I do this is swap (because these are both true things, and I edited the main post because everyone assumed I know docker and I absolutely don’t)

How does that change your reply, if at all?

I’ll look into that, I don’t know anything about docker, which apparently I should do…… so that’s actually really helpful, thanks!

How is podman it for like… someone who doesn’t really have any strong ties to or knowledge of any existing thing?

I do my downloads manually at the moment because everything I’ve seen for radarr, sonarr, overseerr, etc. require docker and I’m nowhere near docker level skills.No idea where to even start. I view my servers as a zen curation effort. It makes me happy to do, so I don’t mind (tho I don’t want to redo it if I can avoid it), but some stuff, like original doctor who and lots of the educational stuff I like, are an absolute disaster for Plex… the season/episode naming is just very different… so I want it for stuff like that.

I don’t mind the idea of raw Debian but I’ve heard it’s a pain to set up if you don’t already know what you are doing with it? And I’m not sure I know what I’m doing with it.

There are Amazon products intended to be sent back, like try before you buy. Or half the cheap junk you end up with instead of what you actually ordered.

Even a standard shoe company expects at least half the pairs to be returned, it’s just part of how online shopping for something that needs to fit works.

(I’m not supporting the model, is wasteful af, just saying, they could just be doing normal rural shopping.)

I like to tell them “your mother must be so ashamed to have you in the family; so worthless as a breadwinner that you have to resort to theft”.

That always riles them right up.