I’m pretty sure thats not possible wifhout some custon extension or script.

go with fedora

i feel you’ll be happier with it

I feel like by “scaling” they mean upgradability. So either vertical (adding more drives, ram, cpu) or horizontal (adding more boxes that loadbalance an increase of multiple parallel tasks/users) hahaha ooops

1. use a modern, popular distro. There are less things broken and you get more support

2. do a fresh install with a fresh user to nor carry over your broken configs and customizations. Do everything from scratch again

3. Tackle the issues one by one and provide detailed steps to reproduce, error messages, logs, screenshots or videos. You can ask right here on lemmy, but you’ll probably get more eyes on it on reddit tbh.

I felt just like you a long time ago when kde introduced wayland at the end of 2016. After a couple of super frustrating months, I made a backup of my /home, migrated my archlinux to btrfs (by doing a fresh install) so I can have snapshots and revert if I mess something.

Had only minor issues since then and most have been fixed some years later. Others I’ve learned how to work around (for example by using gamescope, because I have mixed resolution multi monitor setup and some games think my 2k screen is 4k)

afaik the Ruhr Universiry of Bochum has an intranet that connects the uni and all the dorms. And they selfhost a couple of services, like email, git and pastebin. You can see a line going to the dorms on the graph.

https://noc.rub.de/web/services/start

https://nedi.noc.rub.de/netweather/

I think that really depends on why the app made the system hang.

Can you reproduce it consistently? If so, you could try out different forms of isolation, like flatpak, docker, a VM. And there are linux distros focused on each of those, but you can try a solution on whatever distro you’re running.

If for some reason your system hangs due to resources (which is the only case I have ever experienced), that can be limited through cgroups and such. The only resource I don’t know how to limit is GPU compute.

When doing IT support for my parents windows PC I used the following two options in the past:

• software that can copy the programs to a new install (but it was flakey and couldn’t copy every app)

• just cloning the whole drive with clonezilla. As long as the new drive is equal or larger than the old one, this worked perfectly.

There is a clonezilla live boot iso somewhere, or you can do it with any linux live boot and gparted + dd. Just make sure to have a backup of your important data outside of this PC (just in case you fuck up) learn what the tools and command do before running them and tripple check that you are copying the old install to the new drive, not the other way around.

Then after the cloning unplug the old HDD for testing. Because a clone will have identical IDs the boot process and some programs might get confused.

During the linux install, unplug the windows ssd and have only the hdd attached, again for the ID issues and just be extra safe to not fuck anything up.

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you bought one? Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?

my 2 old phones were both replaced because of hardware issues.

one has a broken power button that is constantly randomly spam pressed, so as soon as it gets power if it ever manages to boot it either reboots itself or tries to call emergency services.

the other has a flaky usb c that constantly connects and disconnects unless you hold it at a specific angle and the battery is like a minute away from meltdown - it can hold charge for a couple minutes.

I’d be afraid to leave either plugged in.

I guess the article is for people that buy a new phone yearly out of fashion, not need.

there is also the cross platform one by jetbrains - i always forget the name

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I only enter one password for LUKS and have kde autologin

What is Linux protecting us from by using passwords?

I’d argue: from yourself.

On windows I often spam clicked through dialogues and popups and without thinking got malware or some other unwanted outcome.

On linux, when asked for a password it takes effort to type, so I have a moment of my lazy brain resisting and asking “do we really need to do that” and it makes the action more conscious and responsible. I cought myself one step from fucking something up multiple times this way.

I had some viruses and malware on windows, just like you. But I never had them on linux in mt 15 years of daily driving it.

Thats fine until it isn’t.

Remember all the small folk people the government or other powerfull institutions fucked over in unjust ways for a wide range of reasons (sometimes down to personal grudges other times completely random)?

Yeah, it would be super easy to put some incriminating files on your computers and lock you up for years. Your grandma would be really sad.

Also on linux you can set everything to passwordless in polkit/sudoers or a blank password - it doesn’t actually force you and I’ve done that where it made sense (not on a PERSONAL computer)

it always baffles me when people set up disk encryption with the TPM instead of a password

The Matchbox window manager is normally a good start for this sort of project.

It displays a single application at a time full screen.

I had much more trouble with keeping my debian/ubuntu installs running for years back in the days. And it was always out of date. Whenever there was a bug, I would search for it, see that it was already fixed upstream and be frustrated that I’d only get that fix in half a year. And then after half a year, dist-upgrade borked my whole install and I had to reinstall from scratch. I remember all the lost weekends of fiddling with it and the stress from needing my pc in working order for my job.

With arch, I’ve broken it a couple times in the first 2 months, while doing my ideal setup. But now I have been on the same install for about 10 years. It survived being cloned to multiple new computers and laptops and just keeps updating and working. Been using it professionally of course. Rarely do I have to do a minor fix. 2024 was kind of bad iirc, there were 3-4 manual interventions I had to do. It took probably 8 hours of maintenance work in total for that year. 2025 was mostly super smooth sailing, iirc I had to do 1 or at most 2 small fixes that took less than 20minutes each.

But I must say, I’ve set it up in a very deliberate and failsafe way. I can’t guarantee the same result if you do anything different from my setup - software choise and process wise. And I’ve seen pretty bad fuckups on the support forums again and again from other people that do their own approach with arch.

I guess thats the power of it. It can be molded into very different forms. With Ubuntu you just get spoonfed what canonical cooks for their corpo overlords.

mainstream

is the keyword here. Mainstream is really big.

They come for the lions share first. You do nothing because you think you’re unaffected. Then later they will come for you. And nobody will do anything for you either.

Of course, professional criminals like yourself (sarcasm) will find a way to escape the law. But I doubt it’s nice to live on the edge of society like that anyway, being unable to interact with most services.

How is it a map and not a list?

Like, are the containers related somehow?

If you just want to know whats running, there are a ton of docker autoexplore dashboard out there. But I don’t think they output a map, just a list.