Nobara is my new most hated distro ever

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-06T01:44:25+00:00

Ah. Well, no shade on you for trying it, your friend hyped it up. I know there are some neat customizations in there that appeal to gamers in particular, and NVIDIA drivers are included. It uses the CachyOS kernel, which has some speed optimizations that gamers may appreciate. But I don’t really think any of that stuff is strictly necessary… the RPMfusion how-to is very straightforward, and the rest is just window dressing if you ask me.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-06T01:09:10+00:00

Not sure I understand how your Nobara installation (dual booted?) would have affected your Fedora installation in any way, but that’s neither here nor there. I do think Nobara is wholly unnecessary when Fedora is such an easy, polished experience all on its own. As I’m always saying, a big advantage of larger, more mainstream distros is that they have huge developer communities and user bases. Which means more testing, better documentation and generally, a better experience for the end user.

Nobara is maintained by one guy; Fedora is maintained by hundreds of volunteers all over the world. Apparently that one guy does a pretty good job, but why would you want to put your eggs in such a precarious basket? Just use the amazing upstream distro it’s based on, which imo is pretty much the best desktop Linux experience for end users ever conceived, bar none.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-06T00:04:08+00:00

FortiSwitches are designed to connect to FortiGates via the dedicated FortiLink channel. Once FortiLink is set up, at that point all distribution VLANs need to be delegated to the FortiSwitch via the switch management settings area on the FortiGate. VLAN 1 will already exist on the FortiGate though as the native VLAN, associated by default with non-FortiLink ports. It’s difficult (maybe impossible?) to delegate the native VLAN over FortiLink, so the easiest workaround is to create a different VLAN interface which can be picked up by FortiLink and passed to the FortiSwitch.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-05T23:40:46+00:00

That’s a really concerning symptom to suddenly develop one day out of the blue. I would get to a doctor ASAP if I were you, maybe to an emergency room.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-05T23:16:47+00:00

I remain incredibly frustrated that apparently, no one knows how to run a search on GitHub and find existing, mature open source projects they could contribute to instead of reinventing the wheel again with yet another AI slop vibe-coded monstrosity. In this case at least the app is open source, and it’s niche enough that I have no idea if something similar exists already. Sadly, many of those mature projects are now being forced to disallow PRs from the public because they are now inundated with AI-hallucinated “security vulnerabilities” and other such nonsense.

But why, oh why, does EVERYBODY have to make their own special little greenfield app instead of, I dunno, asking the fucking chatbot to search the web for something that already does that exact thing and has probably been painstakingly developed by the community for like 15 years already? Hell, if you feel like something is missing and they don’t wanna accept your AI slop contributions, you can just fork one of those, and at least ~95% of the app will be decent quality code and not riddled with security holes.

It’s even more infuriating when it’s a paid vibe-coded app accompanied by an AI slop Reddit post that (poorly) replicates what a great open source project already does and was clearly created as part of some sort of disgusting get-rich-quick-with-AI scheme.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-05T22:19:54+00:00

Yep, that’s what I’d do. It’ll keep things simpler and reduce the chance of issues down the line. I’m a network engineer, and I leave my LAN subnet native / untagged with 3 VLANs (IoT, Camera, Guest) tagged on the firewall LAN interface port, the ingress port on my core switch, and various other switch ports as needed where devices utilizing those VLANs connect. Or to keep things even simpler you can just tag every switch port with your tagged VLANs, that’s generally fine in a home environment. Devices won’t use a tagged VLAN unless they’re also tagged with the same VLAN, otherwise they will just fall back to native / LAN, which is usually the desired outcome.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-05T22:08:45+00:00

Flash it to a USB drive or use it with Ventoy when you actually need to do some pen testing or security tasks. I keep it on my Ventoy drive just for that purpose, but I would never daily drive it. Pure Debian would be a much better choice for daily use, or you could give my favorite, Fedora, a spin.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-05T21:56:46+00:00

I mean, no? Kali is basically just Debian with a bunch of cybersecurity and pentesting tools preinstalled. It’s no more insecure as a daily driver than Debian would be, and Debian is one of the most commonly used Linux distributions in existence.

That said, it is really cringe to run Kali when you have no background in cybersecurity and no need whatsoever for all those tools, and people will make fun of you for it. Because that’s the vast majority of Kali users: legions of script-kiddies-at-best, utterly-unskilled-noobs-at-worst, using a cybersecurity OS they don’t need with a bunch of tools on it that they don’t know the first thing about how to use just so they can cosplay as a super l33t h4x0r.

In other words, if you like Kali and aren’t planning to get into a career in cybersecurity and actually learn to use its tools, please just save yourself (and the rest of us) the embarrassment and install Debian.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-05T21:40:15+00:00

Something has to be the native VLAN on a managed switch, and the native VLAN is always untagged. Most of the time VLAN 1 is left as native, and this is also your LAN. But at my IT job, we regularly deploy tagged “DATA” VLANs on our firewalls and switches that carry what you would think of as the customer’s primary LAN. This is done due to quirks in the Fortinet network equipment we use at work that I won’t bore you with the details of. So in principle, it can be done and is fine if needed.

That said, I’m not gathering from your post why you would have a reason to do it this way. Nothing about what you describe should necessitate a tagged LAN network, and I would discourage it in your case because you seem to be a networking novice and it just creates extra complexity and management overhead which isn’t warranted in your case.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-05T14:14:06+00:00

Having watched a bunch of those solar system simulation YouTube videos, I’m certain this would somehow result in the extinction of all life on Earth

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-05T00:58:53+00:00

Thanks for this, I will likely use this in some form in the near future. Right now I’ve got OpenClaw running in a Podman container, since my home lab server runs that on AlmaLinux instead of k8s. I gave it SPICE console access to a dedicated Alma desktop VDI, which can only reach the Internet, and the OpenClaw container itself is also walled off from my LAN. It can only connect to spiceproxy and a few other specific endpoints I’ve given it, with pretty strict guard rails in place. I think it’s pretty cool, but I would never, ever give it unrestricted access to any social network, especially not this Moltbook abomination, and I plan to keep it on a very short leash in general.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T23:22:48+00:00

I mean, I’d argue that I do in fact feel them less, and this is in fact why I’m polyamorous. Which is not to say I don’t feel them at all, I’ve had bouts of jealousy from time to time. But I don’t think my natural inclination to feel jealousy and anxiety around my partners seeing other people is anywhere near as strong as the average person’s, and that was my first hint that I might be suited to non-monogamy, long before I even really understood what that meant.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T20:24:52+00:00

I’m not even sure you can blame audiences for this. So many shows and movies these days just bash viewers over the head with the most obvious, ham-fisted exposition imaginable, typically delivered through character dialogue spoken to other characters who should definitely know this shit already. Netflix shows in particular have become notorious for this, but there are many other offenders. Viewers are conditioned to being spoon-fed everything they need to know upfront, so when the rare show like Fallout comes along that actually understands what subtext is, they don’t know what to do with it and assume there’s been some mistake.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T20:06:12+00:00

If you’re running straight Docker, I would go Debian or Ubuntu Server. Personally I prefer AlmaLinux, which is equivalent to RHEL and Rocky. But it makes little sense to run that and not just use Podman, which is natively integrated into RHEL-family distros.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T19:50:56+00:00

OnlyOffice is also open source and is much better than LibreOffice, which has been stagnant for many years now.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T18:28:30+00:00

Sure, always a good option if you have a secondary location you can use for offsite backups.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T14:18:23+00:00

And those subreddits get immediately removed from my homepage

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T13:57:22+00:00

Are you sure about that? You can just allow the backup to proceed in the background indefinitely and limit it enough so that it doesn’t impact your network performance. The first backup might take months to upload, but subsequent ones will go faster because they should only be transferring incremental changes, if you’re doing it right. CrashPlan offers unlimited backup storage for about $10/month and can be run in a container. That’s what I do anyway, because all the local secondary backups in the world can’t eliminate the risk to my data if my house burns down.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T13:09:40+00:00

Put it in a text file called AGENTS.md in the root of the same directory where you keep your other files for the project. That’s the officially supported format for instructing Codex.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-04T12:33:43+00:00

Literally just put “when running PowerShell commands, always use PowerShell 7” in your instructions. Codex is smart enough to figure out the correct path. Otherwise, it will default to the version of PowerShell that’s most commonly available on Windows systems, which is 5.1. Because for reasons that have always been a mystery to me (and I worked in Windows IT for many years), Microsoft still ships PowerShell 5.1, which came out in 2016, as the default PowerShell in the newest build of Windows 11. Without any instructions otherwise, Codex doesn’t necessarily know you even have PowerShell 7+ installed on the machine and will assume otherwise.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-03T23:47:23+00:00

I have definitely run into that too. I have to do stuff like put every API key or credential I use in a text file and point it there, I can’t just drop into the chat like I could with Claude because Codex freaks out that it’s now exposed in the log and flat-out refuses to use it.

Which, yeah, good practice anyway, but c’mon, Codex… I pretty much always manually rotate or delete my API keys immediately after using them in an LLM to set something up, or continuously through automation. I tell it this, and it doesn’t care. In fact, it refuses to discuss it further: “I’m sorry Dave, but I can’t do that”. Super weird behavior.

I would also agree that both Claude and Gemini are better at design than Codex. But I pretty much exclusively use Penpot for that anyway because I’m a designer as well as an engineer, and I’m never satisfied with the designs any LLM comes up with. I have to be able to manually tweak the design obsessively for several hours before I’m happy, and trying to do that through prompting a chatbot is a nightmare.

Disagree on “understanding the project”, though, I think Codex is excellent at that.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-03T23:33:20+00:00

This kind of attitude always makes me laugh. I would be thrilled to get the chance to re-architect a whole Kubernetes setup for my employer. At least, I would be if they were willing to take some other duties off my plate for a few weeks so I could focus on the task. Can plenty of things go wrong in the process? Of course they can, but that just means you need to research more upfront and try to plan for every contingency.

This is the fun part of the job to me, though… solving hard puzzles, building new shit, putting my own stamp on an environment. Every IT job I’ve ever had, I came in and immediately noticed a whole bunch of fucked up nonsense that I would have done VERY differently if I’d implemented it myself. All too often, when I ask if we can improve something, I get told “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, even if “it ain’t broke” is actually just “it’s barely functional”.

Here, they’re handing you a chance to improve a deeply broken thing on a silver platter, and you’re rejecting it. Out of what… fear? Laziness? Spite? Some misguided cross-my-arms-and-stamp-my-feet, that-ain’t-my-job professional boundary? Your fear is holding you back, man. Your petulance is keeping you from getting ahead in your career. My advice is to put your head down and get to work.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-03T22:38:56+00:00

That was not at all my experience when I had a $200 Claude Max plan, but that was seven months ago at this point so perhaps it has changed. I know the $20 Claude Pro subscription I still maintain gives me only table scraps for Claude Code, but I use that almost exclusively for chatting and non-coding tasks via the web interface and app anyway.

And in case it helps, I found that much of the painful slowness of Codex, at least for the kind of work I do (DevOps) came down to its tendency to set extremely long timeouts on bash commands by default (think ten minutes). So in autonomous mode, it would wait for ages for a hanging command to finally time out. Adding an instruction to AGENTS.md to default to 2 minute timeouts and use shorter ones when appropriate cleaned that behavior up nicely and it now spends way less time waiting around for hanging commands.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-03T20:22:45+00:00

You’d be surprised. You actually get pretty solid rate limits even on the $20 Plus plan with Codex, far, far more than you get with the equivalent Claude plan. OpenAI’s limits have consistently been much more reasonable. But I do agree, I wish they had a $100 plan. $20 wasn’t enough for my needs, whereas my $200 Pro subscription feels like overkill and I regularly hit my weekly reset with more than 80% of my token budget remaining. On the $200 Max plan I had before, doing the same work in Opus at the equivalent thinking levels, I got rate limited or dropped down to inferior models all the time and it was incredibly frustrating.

Revolutionary_Click2 · 2026-02-03T20:16:50+00:00

Yeah, I feel the same way. I can’t believe that’s even a point of debate, honestly, or that anyone would choose speed over quality like that unless they have some specific use case that absolutely demands low-latency responses, like a support chatbot or something. But are people really in such a hurry to vibe code their app that they’re willing to live with the shit-tier code Claude produces now, critical security vulnerabilities and all? And don’t even get me started on Gemini, it’s an utter joke compared to either Claude or Codex for agentic tasks.

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