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What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲) (feddit.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Honestly, as a newbie to Linux I think the ratio of well documented processes vs. "draw the rest of the fucking owl" is too damn high.

The rule seems to be that CLI familiarity is treated as though its self-evident. The exception is a ground-up documented process with no assumptions of end user knowledge.

If that could be resolved I think it would make the Linux desktop much more appealing to wider demographics.

That said, I'm proud to say that I've migrated my entire home studio over to linux and have not nuked my system yet. Yet... Fortunately I have backups set up.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Linux on the desktop almost never needs CLI interaction though. Maybe you'll need to copy/paste a command from the internet to fix some sketchy hardware, but almost everything works OOTB these days.

However, self-hosting isn't a desktop Linux thing, it's a server Linux thing. You can host it on your desktop, but as soon as you do anything remotely server-related, CLI familiarity is pretty much essential.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I always update via CLI 'cause most GUI tools are slow and buggy, so...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I do too, but the GUI tools do work.

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