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Pisica mitică și legendară

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@theorytoe@mt.watamelon.win remote
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infrastructure update:

im moving everything off the main disk onto the new disk. Everything seems to be fine for the most part. im working on moving the important stuff now, then I will copy the rest after

the primary system partition is fine surprisingly, but I am wondering if I want to re-install my current host this upcoming December with a better distro than what I have been running ATM since debian has been giving me nonstop friction

if anyone has suggestions or a distro they prefer tell me, im not running anything like proxmox and I want to keep the system bare metal, no hypervisor, for now

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Phantasm

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@theorytoe It is repackaged RHEL for the most part, so some software choice is weird (like NetworkManager on a fucking server). You can check pkgs.org or repology.org if what you want is packaged in main repos or EPEL. But if not, it is kinda annoying. Especially if you need new-ish versions of things like go/rust/node. If you like Debian for packaging old versions, RHEL does that even more.
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Phantasm

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@theorytoe Not really, being a full clone of RHEL by design gives RH way too much control over it in my opinion, if they want to fuck them over just like they did with not publishing easy-to-get RHEL sources anymore. The ecosystem as a whole kinda depends on RH not being dicks. Also a fair warning, Rocky does not support updating between releases. You need a full reinstall if you want to upgrade from any major version like 8 -> 9 / 9 -> 10. Alma does support upgrades between releases.

Give it a spin in a VM to have some feel for it. If you don't like it at start, you probably won't in the future.
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@theorytoe @tyler Containers are always an option, but not my preferred way at least. Usually a last resort if software is hell to build and package. With mise/asdf, it is at least pretty easy to get new toolchain versions on an older system.

Honestly, my main and pretty much only reason for running RHEL is that it has 5+5 years of support and is less broken than Debian/Ubuntu. If I could run Gentoo on a small 1 core VPS with a gigabyte of RAM, I would.
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