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OK Donald
Another fine simple solution to a complex problem. The whole problem with modern IT is the "winner-takes-all" inherent property of the way our tech works. Choice, and sensible standards are the way to go to create a diverse eco-system of tech with real competition and choice.
Mussolini-boistering like your post just leads to ever more stupidity which leads to the strengthening of the tech-bros, monopolistic stranglehold we have today.
It doesnt get any easier than debian. No telemetry, no built in enshittification, world class quality and documentation. Cool and calm computing.
Ofcourse you can't monetize that unless unless you do a lot of shifty spin-branding, change the colours and name it something sexy ;-)
KISS -> Use debian!!
It turns out that the "Digital natives" know jack-shit about the way things like the Internet works.
So "AI" are going to save the Internet from falling apart when the old guard takes a rest and the replacements thinks that the Internet is the same as SOME?
*BOOM*
Best regards
Boomer-techie
Who would want windows 11 on anything? That hellishly nagging piece of noisy spyware, that keeps changing the ground beneath your feet with no warning, A weird schizophrenic experience where you don't know if you're on some kind of psychedelic spying social media or an operating system.
No thanks!
I'll take the calm of a Linux desktop any day. I need to get shit done, you know
" but Debian's very slow-moving release cycle can come as an unpleasant shock"
The slow moving release cycle is one of the things that makes debian so attractive. Some of us has to actually use our digital tools, not just play around with endless patching and change for the sake of change.
Off course not what you are asking is "is there a perfect system that never fails if i throw enough money at it?" -- NO!
Monocultures are ripe for pandemics. This principle is universal. Cloud services by their nature are monocultures. therefore they are a global disasters waiting to happen.
Is my custom setup on-prem safer?
Yes! If you know what you are doing!
I have never understood why the different stewards of Java (Sun, Oracle) did not create the tooling needed to use this great runtime. This was obviously the way to make money on java. Just like Microsoft does with Visual studio and all of that ecosystem (.NET CLR is "free" but the tooling end frameworking is not).
"I just don't have the time to invest in making it do what I need/want it to do."
Expressing yourself in a precise manner, in any language, takes effort!
The Linux and UNIX OS's are very powerful, they are user-friendly. They might not be beginner-friendly, there's a difference. Often overlooked
IMHO netbeans is the best java IDE hands down, the layout is intelligent and intuitive, it has a full featured swing WYSIWYG editor. It has great support for PHP and C/C++ if you use the old 8.2 plugin.
Of course swing might look a bit dated if you are doing GUI's, and the other hand it's an easy way to do UI's that are not insane
If Microsoft didn't sabotage their own GUI how would they keep people from discovering that web based "Azure Portal" system Administration is grossly inferior to the old ways of doing things?
On CLI: I can configure, replicate distribute and change any number of sites or databases in CLI on any number *NIX hosts a hell of a lot faster than the clicking and probing bullshit in IIS!! Of course this requires a lot of experience, but there is a major difference between "user friendly" (what i just described) and "beginner friendly" (what Windows GUI's used to be).
Agree apart from the RAID thing (even though mdadm has saved my ass for more trouble that i care to think about). network distributed filesystems + 10 Gbps network rules the day for large storage pools (see the ceph filesystem). I would NOT build large arrays with cheap 10 TB disks like i did in the old days when 2 TB was all the rage. I get cold sweats just thinking about the probability of two bad (tiny) sectors on a 10TB resilvering, Not to mention the time a takes to resilver 10 (or more) TB, with seriously degraded performance.
Systemd is made for automated deployments in the cloud for organizations having the resources to maintain this approach, and, crucial, the resources to control the automated administration.
SysV init is usable by humans on systems run by humans. This enables independent computing, which runs contrary to the interest of the cloud vendors.
That's it. Sad but true
Incidentally, the same motivation is behind the insane release schedule of software like the chrome browser.
Targeted content of any kind need to die! It's allays been the pipe dream of manipulating little shits that think they can predict human needs with what mostly amounts to keyword matches.
Discovery is an extremely important part of life, and the algo-driven dystopian desert that most people experience online runs contrary to that.
Yesterday, because i do this for a living and live in the real world.
Let me guess: You identify as a "developer"?
We cant all just sit around scratch our asses/navels and "use git" to load the tons off bullshit you need to "develop" the next , agile version of "hello world".
Some of has to get shit to work IRL.