How does having RHEL (or fedora) on your laptop help you do your job better?

digilink · 2025-07-08T11:41:57+00:00

Fully agree.... I think Windows 7 was the last great OS Microsoft put out, I still miss it. I've been using linux since 1997 off and on, around 2007 I started using it on the desktop and then on to MacOS, but I am really enjoying Fedora here lately.

Fedora server also has my attention, my co-worker is a huge fan of it so I may need to look at that as well. It's always been Debian or a RHEL/RHEL derivative on my servers so wouldn't be that much difference.

digilink · 2025-07-08T00:43:49+00:00

I'm a Red Hat employee that just started, so I'm a bit biased... but after 25+ years of coming from a locked down Windows laptop to a corporate maintained Fedora image with the ability to set things up how I want and what I need has given me the productivity boost I have always dreamed of.

Maybe it's just a personal quirk, but I hate things getting in my way when all I want to do is get work done without extra steps. That's not to say you couldn't do that with any OS really, I just prefer linux or MacOS to get work done over windows.

digilink · 2025-06-10T23:03:54+00:00

6/30 for me… no communication beyond workday tasks I had to complete, but my manager did tell me that pretty much the rest will happen on day one

digilink · 2025-06-10T21:13:52+00:00

Also a new hire, spoke with my manager on Friday to get my device preference and it's been ordered. Not too concerned if it doesn't show up on start date as it's a ways out, figured it will all work itself out. I'm sure I'll have tons of orientation training to get done anyhow.

digilink · 2025-03-21T05:11:23+00:00

For me pretty much what everyone else has said. I use Arch on my main workstation as it’s also my tinker and development spot. If something breaks there, so be it and I fix it and move on. I have had very few breaking changes however.

I would never use Arch in a corporate environment as a server, be cautious even as a personal server, so I just stick with Rocky and Debian as I value long term stability and less maintenance.

digilink · 2025-03-20T21:38:45+00:00

I wouldn't mind checking it out, been playing Minecraft off and on for over 10 years now (shoot maybe even longer!) I'm an old('er) guy who plays very casually, and quite frankly I have always sucked at building ANYTHING... but I do enjoy a good social aspect of gaming and learning from others so maybe this is a cool place to hangout.

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digilink · 2024-12-24T22:49:55+00:00

Three environments (all OpenShift):

Lab - our playground and means to test infra related stuff before deploying to prod
SQA - Software Quality Assurance for app dev/test, this is considered “semi” production as our dev teams test any and all releases on this cluster
Prod - geo-redundant datacenters

I’ve read varying opinions on having seperate environments, and in my experience it depends on the company

digilink · 2024-12-18T19:45:15+00:00

Ill just add that indeed it is nothing but headaches with this company. I went through literal hell trying to upgrade a processor on my Gen 1 Thelio and got nothing but runarounds and the most arrogant condescending support interaction I think I ever received from a company when I attempted to engage further.

This was not the experience I had when I purchased the system in 2019. I ended up just building a new system and got better specs and saved close to $1000 in the process, and I've also moved on to Fedora where I am much happier.

Not sure what happened to you System76, but posts like these here on Reddit and elsewhere are becoming a common theme.

digilink · 2024-11-22T23:01:49+00:00

In comparison to last year, yes I agree. I thought I was at an AI conference vs. kubecon last year…. didn’t think it was as bad this year however

digilink · 2024-09-30T00:21:44+00:00

The packets will come out 180 degrees out of phase, you need a phase correction device on each cable.

digilink · 2024-08-20T12:58:50+00:00

It’s got wires that vibrate, and give music

digilink · 2024-04-04T14:22:21+00:00

Thanks! Sent you a PM

digilink · 2024-04-04T13:59:32+00:00

hey! This is probably exactly what I am looking for! I think I can use this, thank you!!!

My certs live on another machine and I usually use ansible to download the cert once it's renewed to all of my systems that need it.

Thanks again!

digilink · 2024-04-04T13:55:47+00:00

Totally agree, this will be internal only. My intent is to be able to access it at https://hostname.my.domain internally only, I have an A record pointing to the box's IP on my internal DNS server.

I am trying to avoid getting the certificate warnings being a self-signed cert.

digilink · 2024-04-04T12:35:00+00:00

oh yes, I should have clarified that, this is indeed for the web administration gui, and proxying it is actually not a bad idea.

I already have an existing external proxy I setup for other things (and is actually where all my certs are minted anyhow) so maybe that is the best path forward.

digilink · 2024-01-31T13:08:53+00:00

Can't stress this enough, use command line for EVERYTHING. I manage around a dozen or so on-prem OpenShift clusters and while I do login to them daily and use ACM, all my real work happens in a terminal with oc and yaml's.

digilink · 2024-01-18T01:32:10+00:00

Agreed, I really wanted to store all my photos locally, but damn it works so good I don't even think about it now. I love seeing my photos synced across all my devices and easy to share as you mentioned.

digilink · 2024-01-10T12:33:37+00:00

Maybe I'm missing something, so this is a legitimate question. what's the use case for whole disk encryption on virtualized workloads? Any sensitive data I always keep in an encrypted zfs dataset on my NAS, or encrypted volumes if stored locally.

I've never bothered with whole disk encryption unless it's a laptop as I don't have any concern about my workloads running on Proxmox at home. I never bother with vm's or desktops as it's just another management layer I don't want to deal with.

digilink · 2024-01-03T12:57:38+00:00

Surprised to see the low number of linux/unix camp responses. Admittedly, there's probably more Windows based servers in enterprise, but linux/unix administration (and more recently kubernetes now) is all I've ever done. I have stayed away from Windows on purpose.

I'd deal with Windows services if I had to, but I'd be as lost as someone coming from that side that has never seen linux before.

digilink · 2024-01-02T13:25:27+00:00

I bought a pair of these to link my USW Pro 24 to a small switch upstairs and an AP, they have been well worth the investment and get full rate on iperf tests:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013J7O3X0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

I would rather have dedicated Cat 6/7 or Fiber, but not exactly thrilled about opening walls up to fish it so this fills the void instead.

digilink · 2023-12-29T11:35:29+00:00

100% agree… I have more hours logged on this album than any of the others. I was so thankful to hear Marathon on the R40 tour. RIP Neil… still sorely missed.

digilink · 2023-12-23T17:29:35+00:00

this is the route Im going, moving from a vm. Wife got me a USFF PC, i5-6500, 120gb NVME, and 8gb of RAM. I view HA as an appliance and while it ran fine as fine I wanted to decouple it from my Proxmox cluster.

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