Don Vielenio

I'd say 18.04, has still 2 more years of support

5 years ago Ubuntu did not have systemd, I'm still not really used to it, but I guess, it's better having systemd.

I'd also suggest NFS and openssh, ssh for remote administration of the NAS and for SFTP

Will work fine, don't worry about that.

Working for public services makes it harder to fire those people, most the time it's more like, "DEAL WITH IT!"

I'm just having 2 1920x1200 monitors side by side, desk pretty messy and using a playmat as mousepad, if I'd need space for writing on paper, I'd push back the keyboard, closer to the monitors so I have enough space for writing.

So many possibilities to loose faith in humanity... - User wrote an email, having problems with windows, nothing more, literally. First, it can't be a problem with Windows, users system is Linux based. What it could be: - Printer has no paper - Monitor is switched off - Does not remember password - Caps Lock is active - User does not remember how to do their job and needs someone to stand next to them to nod constantly - Just taking network cable out of office computer and wondering why their notebook does not get network... bad MAC filtering - Users not reading mails and write all their stuff onto system volume instead of dedicated much larger volume for long term storage - During maintenance of IMAP server user wrote mail it's unaccessable - EVERY NEW USER tries to install steam - User asking for packages already installed but where to lazy to check it themselves - User bought software A for doing stuff with videos, after buying realizing A needed videos in different codex than their camera recorded, so they demanded us to convert all their videos in a week... Do not know the word please and thanks... - User is unable to use a windows notebook, demands a macBook Just a few, I'm not remembering everything, would make me to depressed.

A Banana Pi fore example would be better, with gigabit ethernet and a SATA port, I'm using it as a mirror for Ubuntu repository, taking it in the morning to work, attaching it to network, starting mirroring and in the evening i can do much faster updates at home. I'd really wished they'd given the raspi in version 3 atleast gigabit ethernet and USB 3 Gen1

I had with a pi, but the performance was unexceptable. A raspberry Pi does not have gigabit ethernet and only USB 2.0, if you have a Pi 3, use WIFI, cause WIFI is in opposite to the wired interface not using USB to communicate with CPU, so you get slightly higher speed. But advanced stuff as RAID, do not do with a raspi, you'll regret it!

Yes it is, I've build one based on an old Dell Optiplex, stuffed as many HDDs as I had in there, set up a linux with software RAID5 so one of the old drives could fail and it's working. What would be more interesting is building an own SAN.

I've had to to replace 2 mainboards, one cause mounting for CPU cooler broke of and the next one because of an damaged SATA controller... oh and I had constant Problems with onboard networking device. I had although to replace 2 HDDs. In office we have to replace an HDD per month, so i'd say HDD is part most prone to failure.

Maybe Ubuntu Budgie is something for you, it still has a classical menu and also has a nice dock for quick access.

I'm using 10GB for a virtual machine without X-server, for my desktop system I'm using 20-30GB for root-partition, texlive is using much to much space, additional 5GB for /tmp and 40-60 for home directory on a separated partition. I'd recommending at least 100GB in total, but if you're not having much data, 60GB or even 40GB could be enough for you.

I'm using Linux since 2009 and primarly since 2012. Windows is only installed on desktop for a lan party and so it's almost never used. I don't know how to work anymore without i3wm with those many easy to configure shortcuts to access and move terminals form one desktop to another, I'm regularly using at least 15 desktops, distributing certain tasks to certain desktops. Ordering by desktops is in my opinion the most clean solution. Only on my notebook I'm still using macOS, at least I have a bash and brew, so it kind of works for me, next notebook will get linux again.