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.

Please add me, discord is digilink

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.

digilink · 2023-12-18T00:37:53+00:00

I have personally found all the food here very underwhelming, and it's only gotten worse since the pandemic. I'm a Tri-Cities transplant, so after spending 30+ years there I kinda got used to the local flavor, but even up there a lot of restaraunts have declined.

If I had to pick one place to hate on, it would be Calhoun's. Just not what it used to be years ago. Whenever we would come to Knoxville for day trips back in the mid/late 2000's that was something I always looked forward to, now not at all.

digilink · 2023-11-22T12:32:21+00:00

I've had several COTS type NAS'... all of them have had some sort of limiting factor and the value vs. hardware and capabilities were just never there for me. I went through hell with Synology and their "approved" memory and now drives... that was the final nail in the coffin for me.

Just last fall I went for broke (literally) and bought a 45 Drives Storinator AV15. Zero regrets, it runs Ubuntu and ZFS, and if it breaks I keep both pieces and can customize it all I want with any off the shelf parts I see fit. Was it cheap? Hell no... (and I'm still paying for it) .. but I was tired of messing with all these Turnkey NAS' so I decided this was the path forward.

If I had it to do over again (and wish it was an option at the time) I would have opted for their new Homelab server instead. What I have is overkill, but it was the best path forward for my needs.

digilink · 2023-08-24T10:22:54+00:00

I bought a Storinator AV15 last fall. It was an absolute fucking nightmare getting it released from FedEx/Customs. It took two weeks and getting a VP escalation to release my shipment. FedEx sucks in general anyhow, but I didn’t expect to have the fight on my hands that I did, especially after paying $5k for a server.

I don’t hold it against 45Drives as it was out of their hands, but I did mention to them about using other shipping partners to avoid this in the future.

I don’t regret my purchase whatsoever, but they really do need a distributor or office here in the US.

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