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  1. I used to despise it. I was team init for quite awhile. While there are still quite a few things that get on my nerves about systemd from time to time, usually to do with the binary logging by default... If I am monitoring or troubleshooting something, I see it as needlessly complicating the task of something simple like a "tail -f /path/to/some/service/log". I appreciate the capabilities. Heck, I used to swear by supervisord back in the initV days. Which is really the only reason I saw to adopt and learn systemd. Imagine my surprise when I often find systemd services that have died, been killed or otherwise no longer running and systemd "randomly" decides that it's just going to ignore it this time... LOL The whole "homed" talk got my attention again... IMHO systemd is becoming WAY to monolithic. Especially when trying to run it, and/or only *portions* of it (resolved, networkd etc) alongside conventional services. Like running a caching resolver locally with say dnsmasq while at the same time trying to use systemd's networking and name resolution. Just little hurdles that take more time to resolve than they ever should. LoL Seems to me that if everything keeps moving this direction, eventually systemd will become a large (so most won't learn more about it than they absolutely need to in order to achieve whatever they are trying to do), monolithic SPOF. Again, I'm all for the features, configurability and man hours put into making it what it is. Problem is that we seem to be "putting all our eggs in one basket" and heading to where it will be the only (or most mature) show in town. I'm sure it's just my normal paranoia and pessimism. I operate on the assumption that everything will always go wrong at the worst possible moment all the time. I used a Mac for quite awhile as well. I didn't let myself spend that kind of $ on a secondary machine just for "work" until they moved to OSX. At the time I was working for a fairly large hosting company that ran almost everything on FreeBSD. Which is basically the foundation of OSX/Darwin, iOS etc. Made it a simple switch since I was familiar using FreeBSD for years. At the time we even had some old FreeBSD 2 and 3 boxes in production. I think the last one we took offline was actually the official mirror that we hosted. That mirror saved us soooooo much time back then. Haha! When everything runs on it and you're back in the days of a T1 or OC1/OC3 being considered a "huge pipe", having all the system and ports tree 2 hops away was a game changer. Man...I feel old. Lulz -Ronan
  2. I never really loved RedHat. Probably because I had to administer quite a few RHEL 2, 3, 4 and 5 servers. Then eventually FC4. I chalk it up to fighting with RPM and yum for years. I agree. Seems to be a lost in translation thing. It would've been better phrased as "Debian/Ubuntu Compatible" or something. As for the cash, apparently people are receiving their products... That being said, PERSONALLY, I wouldn't risk it. Simply for the fact that if it is as capable as people boast, it will be cloned and available here in short order. Additionally I would also look at the support factor. If you ever need any, it may not be the best experience or even available at all. Well said. I agree as well. Unless the OP is familiar with installing and using Linux and/or Custom Android ROM flashing and maintenance, that it could result in quite the learning curve. Don't get me wrong. If the OP's intention is to use it as a project to learn or tinker etc to expand their knowledge, then I'm all for it as long as they are aware of what they are walking into. Obviously, if they are familiar and comfortable with the above skills (and chance of ending up with no $ and no product) then again, go for it! Otherwise, if the OP is ONLY looking for an alternative to AndroidTV/GoogleTV (I assume the dongles and/or the TVs that come with it built in). I would probably suggest just getting a Shield Pro (that were just on sale coincidentally lol) or if they want to "geek out" a bit, pick up a Pi (when the prices finally come back down to sane levels). Finding support to do whatever they want is simple and abundant due to the huge adoption. Getting up and running is just as simple (IMHO more so) as installing Winblows on a normal machine. -Ronan
  3. Debian is Debian. By "vanilla" I just meant the default "base" install. Even the most minimal install leaves you with a working system and the minimum amount of "required" packages installed. Then it's up to you to decide what/how you want it setup. By default the base install is pretty minimal. Of course you can install/setup X11, WM, DE etc but the default install is bare bones. Debian is a FULL and complete Linux distro though. It's just an easy place to start from if you want to roll your own distro because Debian upstream doesn't really do "bleeding edge" updates (other than needed security updates) so you can be fairly certain that any upstream code, packages etc shouldn't introduce instability in your fork. Like I said, they lean towards more stable (if quite older) package versions. Pretty much if you want it installed, you need to apt install the needed packages. They also don't modify official packages much except to conform them to the "Debian way". Which means that most of the time, you can use the official packages on Debian forks without issue. I prefer my Linux installs that way anyway. I don't want anything extra installed above a base install that I haven't purposely installed myself. That's probably why Debian is my goto for most server setups. It also probably explains why my "daily driver" is Arch Linux wherever I can. (Yes, I did just do a "BTW I run Arch Linux") Gentoo is great for that as well...assuming you don't do a Stage 1 install, it is fairly quick as well. Although then you do miss out on any compile time optimizations you may want but that is pretty niche (and WAY over on this tangent here lol). -Ronan
  4. Nah. Debian is the distro that Ubuntu is based off of. Debian is the cut-down "vanilla" distro. It is geared towards stability so gets much less frequent updates (except security) and Ubuntu as well as many others (Kali, Mint, Pop!_OS, Devuan, Sparky, Deepin etc etc) are all based and built from Debian. What it says is it can run Debian. Since Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, it runs that as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the other forks ran on it with little effort as well. As far as "loading and ubuntu", I'm inclined to believe that they would install and run just fine. Seems the hardware used it pretty common and off the shelf so the drivers would most likely be available in most current Linux kernels and should detect the hardware without any extra static or dynamic modules. When it comes to Debian, if you can run vanilla Debian, most likely you will have no trouble running one of it's more featureful forks.
  5. Messed with it? I'm not sure I follow. The link the OP posted is to the "official" (albeit shady af looking) site which lists compatibility with Android 12, Ubuntu and Debian. According to reddit threads on it, the ordering process is strange but is apparently possible.
  6. From the information, it appears to also run Ubuntu/Debian.
  7. I was able to get video and sound in apps. They were always quite flaky though. Sometimes would just close. It was usually because I would try to increase or decrease the size of the "screen" and then it would drop. Simple apps and a couple streaming apps did "work". I was also running a rooted image though so that may not have helped. I think it's pretty cool and (like most) given enough time and effort put in dev, it could go somewhere...
  8. Any linux distro. They have been distributing it for a few years now. The even put the docs on their site. However, it will not work if you are in "Legacy" mode. It is EFI only. I believe this link is referencing their Dell Edge Gateway 5000 but it works on pretty much any of their BIOS that have been released in the last few years. They also provide links to the LVFS, fwupd etc. I know gnome has a GUI. I never use it. Use your package manager and install fwupdmgr. If for some reason you don't have it (I don't see how though as I have Arch, Debian, and RH machines here that have had it for awhile.) https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/ https://fwupd.org/lvfs/vendors/ "Recent IoT, XPS, Latitude, Precision, and Optiplex hardware is supported. For older systems not supported by LVFS, the vendor recommends creating personalized update notifications using the Dell support site. Responsible for 805 firmware files, 104 uploaded recently Firmware update protocols used: Dell Dock Fastboot Flashrom Intel Thunderbolt NVMe Synaptics MST UEFI UpdateCapsule" https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/tree/master/plugins/dell https://linux.dell.com/ https://github.com/dell
  9. As long as he's using it for personal, there's no issue. I realize it's closed source but it is also so much snappier and far less random crashing than I ever had with x2go. Although, I did play WoW over it remotely a few times back in the day. LoL I mainly use it for family that insist on running windows and constantly needing remote help from the other side of the county/planet. Throw on WG and NX and call it done.
  10. A "login" loop, or a *boot* loop? If it happens when you are trying to log into your window manager, I would try switching window managers to see if that helps. (ie, switch between lightdm, xdm, gdm etc)
  11. Oof. At least suggest NX (NoMachine). It was forked from X2go awhile back.
  12. Because you should not be running stuff as root (or Administrator if Windows). The app in question should either have a service file, init script, etc. If it needs to elevate permissions, it should be done sudo, gksudo etc and after it does what it needs to, it should drop the permissions again. Reading above you said it was a VPN app. What type of VPN? NetworkManager supports pretty much all protocols out of the box on most distros. The ones it doesn't, just need the appropriate plugin installed.
  13. The links that @Worstcaster linked are your best bet. If you want to know if you even have a chance at running something, ProtonDB and Lutris are the place to look. Just be aware that (in general) you will need slightly beefier hardware than you would to run the same app/game under Windows. It's gotten better, but obviously going through a compatibility layer. The way I look at it though, the more you have to work for it, the more gratifying those head shots will be.
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