Yeah i was thinking of trying mate eventually. What differences do you notice from xfce?

You ever used i3 ot a tiled wm before?

it's really just about the menus and desktop experience

I find Mate really easy to navigate and I get nearly the same performance as I do in xcfe

I haven't I hear things tho from programming Linux types about using a tiled wm

based weirdo

i had seen the bottom meme and never understood the context lol

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xfce is my favorite linux DE

i run it on anything i can tbh, if im running linux

i got it on my laptop with arch

I do want a proper NAS setup one day, its always been intriguing to me, especially having your own independent cloud service basically to do whatever you want and you don't have to pay BS subscription fees, especially with how corporations are fragmenting their media into subscription services and some releases are downgrades

my IT teacher is all about that s***, its f***ing sick

As a Network Engineer and Admin, to many to post and list.

Nah. There’s certain s*** I can get done faster in windows than I can in Linux.

It’s like also there’s certain s*** I can get done faster in VMware than I can in Hyper V.

Each has their pros and cons.

true but if you want to setup a server and forgot it about for an extended period of time you'll have more trouble

windows servers take more a bit more maintenance in my experience

I don’t understand why people like Gentoo if they’re not using an extremely special piece of hardware they need to compile for.

I honestly get the appeal but it’s like nerd masochism

it’s extremely modular though

Its purely and truly a hobbist distro.

You should have some fun and make it in an original xbox case

I don't know what the f*** I'm gonna end up doing career-wise but it's probably gonna be some sysadmin s***

Anyone here tried FreeBSD or OpenBSD?

I actually haven't tried any BSD Unix. I would like to, but I simply have no use case for it that can't be fulfilled by Linux. I know OpenBSD has good reputation for security,

I’ve setup a desktop as a router/firewall with openbsd and freebsd

i’ve used freebsd a bit with jails also but not very much anymore these days

I got Arch Linux and Void Linux on my thinkpads

I think the X200/X201 series has to be my favorites in the line, it's a shame they don't make any newer thinkpads with the same chassis.

My server runs fedora but I kinda messed up my installation when i didn't update it for 2 years and then skipped several versions, lol. Planning on switching to Debian.

Unpopular opinion but every desktop environment is ugly as hell unless you rice the s*** out of it. Not that I use any distro on my desktop anymore.

i use parrot os and raspbian

parrot os for my pentesting machine (but mainly just use it for coding if my main laptop is dead)

raspbian on my rpi

i also used kali when i was really into uhhhhhhh pentesting

Is Parrot more cutting edge compared to Kali or something? Never heard of that OS before.

i wouldn’t say more cutting edge, it’s just more suited for everyday use compared to kali

kali is really only intended for pentesting and pentesting only. you can (and need to for some things) store data, but generally don’t want to run a constant storage where you are saving everything you are doing

parrot is more about privacy than pentesting, and while may be a bit overkill for some, it’s nice to have the privacy options available right out of the box