I’ve contended with multiseat issues over the years, there isn’t much interest in keeping it maintained. I can certainly see why, it’s not a very well used feature.

The immutability aspect is kind of irrelevant in the end. I’ve run Linux for decades, and the occasional nuke and pave every couple years just cleans things up IMO. Use a dotfile backup if it really concerns you, but I don’t bother other than to keep my ssh keys. I can fix up Plasma the way I like it in about 2 minutes and install the rest of the software as I need it if it isn’t already there.

That said, I’ve run vanilla Fedora KDE for a few years now and never had a reason to reinstall on any of my machines, it Just Werks. And all the instructions for installing/fixing things are relevant.

I tried Aurora and that was a disaster within a few hours, even using the pre-installed Distrobox manager Box Buddy (put in to allow containerized installs to work around the immutability aspect) led to weird things happening like it not being able to clone a box, and when you drilled through all the layers to run the underlying Docker commands, it still failed, for no apparent reason. Install the same stack on vanilla Fedora, no problems. I ended up with trust issues in the underlying OS and I don’t need to deal with undiagnosable bullshit like that.

I honestly don’t think an immutable distro is a great way to introduce people to Linux. It’s not simple to do some things that are easy in anything else. It’s going to drive a lot of new users away. The things that make it unbreakable also make it difficult for noobs.

They break into your home, use your toilet, steal a beer, and boot your computer to check the version.

Well, they can’t all be winners.

Nobody gets me.

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Art of the Deal.

Tyvm, that got it. That was tough to locate.

I think the protocol is open, both for client and server. Microsoft’s implementation is proprietary, but there are other compatible implementations, KRDC is a server implementation of the protocol that is opensource that KDE uses for Plasma. It’s definitely not ready for primetime, I’m very hopeful this Redhat implementation gains traction amongst distros because Redhat has the resources to throw at it, and the ethics to opensource it.

RDP is very well developed and an open standard. I don’t have a lot good to say about Microsoft, but RDP is one of their wins. It’s blazingly fast compared to any other remote desktop protocol and there’s an extremely full-featured client for Linux in FreeRDP that can be used at the CLI or with one of the various wrappers for it.

If every distro just shipped and supported it for their desktops, it would make life much easier than knitting together the current underperforming patchwork of solutions for Linux.

The issue last time I looked into btrfs mirrors was it’s poor reporting of disk problems and letting it boot with a borked drive. Might be fixed, but that was a 10 year old unresolved bug at that time. Seemed like a WONTFIX and I didn’t need that for a server OS drive.

It’s not good at letting you know when a disk is borked. And normally if you reboot a mirror with a bad disk, it will complain so you know to fix it even if you missed the log entries about it being down. Btrfs will quietly just let you boot into a potentially lethal situation for a mirror with a bad slave.

And there was something about scrubs that was janky as well

For a workstation, btrfs is probably fine. It’s the shits at software RAID, but that’s rarely a thing on a workstation.

Look at btrfs-assistant for adminstration. That’s what Fedora ships with, I think it uses Snapper in the backend.

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/guides/rss_feeds/

So set the books up in a collection, and add each book. RSS the collection and each book shows up as an episode. I wouldn’t want chapters as episodes, that would be annoying usually.

Since they’re different applications entirely and you wouldn’t use the same client for each, I use Calibre as a kasmweb docker image for ebooks and enable OPDS for it to hook up with my FBreader app. Audiobooks are done with Audiobookshelf and outputs an RSS feed for Antennapod subscription.

Deep state actor is upset about WSJ aiding deep state actors.

Thank god for Tim Minchin.

Pete Buttigieg has more intelligence, integrity, and sense in his nail clippings than Trump has exhibited in his entire oxygen-wasting life.