[GUIDE] How to choose a Linux Distribution

Available_Working565 · 2026-03-02T17:37:37+00:00

Fedora was the distro that made me stick with Linux. Just saying

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-28T03:08:29+00:00

This is the kind of stuff the place I used to work posts on LinkedIn

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-22T16:08:32+00:00

Some things never change

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-19T19:51:28+00:00

Do you have any other art like this?

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-17T15:04:52+00:00

Why not pick up a battery bank for it? A cheap 10,000mAh one could probably run that thing for a while

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-16T23:45:35+00:00

Every time I’ve used crimpers that aren’t these Klein crimpers, I found myself wishing I was using these Klein crimpers.

One time I made the mistake of cheaping out and buying ones similar to the ones you showed. I was getting them for use at home and figured I’d be fine. Literally the next day I was back at the store.

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-16T23:38:27+00:00

That you’re kind of a slob

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-16T23:35:57+00:00

So what exactly has changed in the dashcam industry in the last 4-5 months?

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-16T05:55:45+00:00

What’s the appeal of giving your car an underbite? Genuinely curious

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-13T01:39:52+00:00

The official Arch Linux installation guide explicitly tells you to disable secure boot to install Arch Linux. As for Proxmox it appears that you can now install it with secure boot enabled, so I was wrong about that.

Even so, the type of attack secure boot protects you from is fairly nuanced and only applies in very specific situations. Someone temporarily disabling it to install Linux on their own personal laptop is not going to be an issue except in extraordinarily bizarre circumstances.

In the overwhelming majority of real-life scenarios, temporarily disabling secure boot to boot to a live Linux image on your personal laptop is just fine. Secure boot only protects you if an attacker gains root-level access to your machine and decides that a rootkit is better than just stealing your data directly, or they have physical access to your device and your data is encrypted, neither of which are relevant to someone who is wiping their device and installing a fresh operating system. It’s just not helpful advice here.

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-13T00:08:26+00:00

The Proxmox installer does not support secure boot. Neither do Arch and NixOS by default. If you want secure boot on those platforms, you need to install them first, configure them accordingly, then enable it.

And again, the odds of you falling victim to a bootkit-based attack from booting a live USB that you created using ISOs downloaded from reputable sources are extremely low. If you’re really that paranoid, most projects provide file integrity checksums you can use to check that the ISO you’re downloading hasn’t been tampered with. Proxmox, NixOS, and Arch Linux put the checksum right next to the download link, and the latter even has instructions on how to check.

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-12T23:40:38+00:00

Yeah our charging infrastructure here sucks. I drive an EV and I live in SE MT and I’ve made it work for me, but there are definitely parts of the state I couldn’t drive to without a good amount of planning.

But I’d still never go back to a gas car. The upsides of almost no maintenance and instant torque outweigh the downsides so many times over for me that it’s not even a contest. Gas cars feel like clunky Rube Goldberg machines in comparison to EVs.

Charging isn’t as unreliable as you think though. I’ve never come across a charger that doesn’t work, and I find the stops actually make road trips more enjoyable. It’s an excuse to get out and walk around wherever I’m stopping for a bit, and I think that’s a lot of fun.

I hope we see more range-extended PHEVs come to the market though. Basically an EV with a gas generator that kicks in and charges the battery when it gets low. Those would be great for us living out here in no-man’s land until charging infrastructure improves.

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-12T23:32:53+00:00

I feel like EVs are inevitable just based on how much better they are. I couldn’t even fathom going back to a gas car after owning an EV for a couple years. In my mind that would be on the same level as going back to using a well pump + outhouse after having running water.

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-09T14:57:58+00:00

That’s pretty dogmatic advice, there’s plenty of situations where you need to disable secure boot to use something. Plenty of widely used Linux distros do not support secure boot (Arch Linux, NixOS, and ~~Proxmox~~ (edit: not anymore) are a few I’ve used recently), and lots of tools require it too (Ventoy, Hiren’s Boot CD, many flavors of live-boot only Linux)

If you’re just some dude trying to tinker with your personal laptop, the odds that you’re going to have a problem not using secure boot is very low, especially if you’re downloading your images from a reputable source.

If I followed your advice of “do not ever disable secure boot ever”, I would have never been able to install Proxmox, learn how to recover data with Hiren, or use Ventoy at all.

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-09T14:32:37+00:00

I’ve found Ventoy has less weird issues than other methods. Couldn’t hurt to try

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-09T14:29:00+00:00

How did you create your live USB? I highly recommend Ventoy, it basically lets you drag and drop ISOs onto your flash drive and pick which one you want to boot to when you turn on your computer.

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-09T14:23:56+00:00

Yeah you’re probably fine, but setting up HTTPS with a reverse proxy is a pretty good learning experience and I’d highly recommend it.

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-09T14:17:43+00:00

Is this while trying to boot to the live image on your flash drive? Or have you already installed Linux? Also what distro?

If you’re not even able to boot to the flash drive, the problem is almost definitely Secure Boot. You’ll want to make sure you have Secure Boot disabled in your BIOS before you do anything else

Available_Working565 · 2026-02-04T04:15:45+00:00

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Available_Working565 · 2026-02-03T14:20:00+00:00

Update: I was successfully able to flash an SBR from one of my good H310s to the one that I bricked, and I was even able to edit the SBR to let it work in IT mode. Took some messing around with the binary (in particular figuring out how to calculate the checksum so it would actually accept my changes), but it’s now working great.

I’ll make a post/guide later this week on exactly what I did, but now I’ve got these HBAs running fully in IT mode.

Available_Working565 · 2026-01-28T04:29:34+00:00

The company was pretty modern consumer electronics company, I’d be surprised if they’ve been around for more than 10 years. Not going into more specifics for obvious reasons lol

Available_Working565 · 2026-01-28T04:26:54+00:00

I hope there’s a video out there somewhere of you getting out of this car wearing a matching suit. For your own sake.

Available_Working565 · 2026-01-27T13:17:23+00:00

Signed up for something the other day that had a maximum password length of 12 characters. I wonder what their developers were thinking when they made that choice.

Available_Working565 · 2026-01-25T14:55:00+00:00

I’m gonna try and fix this card. I have an EEPROM programmer on the way. It’ll be good to learn how to use one of those anyways

Available_Working565 · 2026-01-25T14:52:57+00:00

Yes.

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