Thanks for the info! I’ve heard very little about Fedora so I assumed it had a large learning curve. My only experience with Arch-based distros is whatever they put on Steamdecks, and my friend with one has had problems every time he’s over

I’d consider it, got recommendations?

As far as my novice knowledge understands, this isn’t a fixable “issue”. But I’d love to use Debian as my main OS for everything, but I know there’s gonna be issues with Steam/GOG games and GPU drivers. My patience and tolerance with “daily drivers” is much lower than my servers, so as far as I know that pretty much limits me to Mint (which isn’t as cool)

I’m glad its working. When I tried Docker in Windows a few years ago, it was pure pain. So bad that I gave up and started learning Linux. If it’s as simple as you suggest, that’s great news for people getting into it

That sounds awesome

I spent several hours last night talking about FOSS projects and tech certifications to a guy in entry-level IT. I’m out here doing my best, guys

Fingers crossed for socials skills in FOSS communities, then it’s game over for big tech

In many cases…yes, and it’s embarrassing

Like you’ve already heard, you’re unlikely to feel a difference across most distros. I’ll recommend Debian or Ubuntu, I use both

I’m using Mullvad, its been great for me. I know it’s a fork, I don’t care

Recently switched to Mullvad, I like it

Yeah, I got it set up through Cockpit actually

Streamlined VM deployment inside a headless server. Been scratching my head for 2 days now on getting a Debian VM to work as advertised. Every step of the way I keep thinking “surely it doesn’t have to be this difficult, right?” And for some reason, a basic netplan edit to make a bridge broke all my NFS binds. Took all day to sort a brand new permissions issue that shouldn’t be possible

Can someone educate me on why the more common ones like Debian and Arch aren’t on this list? Every single day Linux communities force me to look at computer stuff in a different light

Edit: I learned a lot and accidentally incited discourse oops

Just to repeat what you’re already hearing: if I started over from the beginning, I’d skip a NAS entirely and just build a server with a ton of bays (which I just bought). Funny enough, I came here to recommend Fractal Design cases too

Ah, I thought operation didn’t matter, my bad

Faraday cage?

Let the record show that irmadlad saved the day here. I learned a lot about what I needed and no longer have to concern myself with something beyond my comprehension

Thank you, that’s really solid advice. It turns out my efforts may have been misguided anyway. I think I was under the impression that “internet exposure” and “Cloudflare tunnel” had similar setups

I thought my VPN didn’t, but they continue to disappoint me. According to the internet, my VPN is using CGNAT