cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715
Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715
Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?
I started with PopOS in September (?), ultimately replacing Windows on every PC in the house. It’s been going well. I’ve had to troubleshoot a few things, the biggest of which being a boot failure, but that turned out to be hardware related, not Linux’s fault. Feeling like I own my computer again is great.
Since then, I’ve gotten into self-hosting and now have a NAS, a Debian Jellyfin server, and a ton of storage space. Right now I’m just backing up basic stuff for the family, as well as streaming movies/shows/music within the house. I’ve ripped so many old DVDs and CDs in the past few months…
Next steps will probably be: books, audiobooks, and archiving family photos/videos in a way that is easier to browse than just files on a hard drive. I will likely de-google eventually.
In short, I’m having fun and should’ve done this a long time ago.
Im on a similar self hosting journey. What do think you’ll use for de googled phone photos and videos? Im not sure where to even start looking.
I’ve set-up Immich recently, moved 400gb photos from Google Takeout, works flawlessly so far.
Thanks, I was hoping someone else with more experience than us would chime in. Ill check it out.
I have around 5 year of experience self hosting.
There are tons of photo and video alternatives.
One of the first was piwigo, but I don’t know what they are up to now. Photoprism brought a bunch of new interest into the space, but is a bit hindered by their pricing model.
The three frontrunners nowadays are: Immich, Photoprism, and Ente.
Immich: easy and very practical google photos recreation (and surpassing in some ways)
Ente: A self-hosted or externally hosted, easy version. More of an ecosystem with Ente Auth authenticator app like Aegis with cloud sync.
Photoprism: much more geared to photographers, tons of organizational and sorting tools and geared towards using metadata of different cameras and such. Limited for me as they don’t have multi-user support unless you pay 6€/month. I would consider that an essential feature to put in their 2€/month and move advanced geocoding to 6€/month.
Immich on the other hand has a 1 time optional (you really should) $100 fee or $25 per account
They are 3 great options.
I don’t know yet either. I’m only at the “idea” phase for that one and not quite ready to move on it yet. It seems like such a common need that there must be a few open source projects out there, I assume.
I’ve briefly considered putting videos in their own category in Jellyfin, just for simplicity’s sake. Not sure if it handles photos too or if I would even want to try that though.
Also swapped to Pop!_OS, a bit over a month back. It was definitely an adjustment, and I think I did something wrong during or following the initial installation that was killing my download speed (sub-10 mbps) and overall slowed my PC that I couldn’t troubleshoot after a week of looking online, but a clean reinstall fixed it and it’s been smooth since.
Still getting used to various things, like how not all companies have official linux support so sometimes you have to rely on other users uploading software on github (or available directly on the pop store) to configure devices or there just isn’t anything available and it won’t run in something like bottles, using the terminal for any number of things, or how terrible the pre-installed file explorer is (I’ve been using Dolphin instead), etc.
I haven’t had any issues with any Steam games or the couple that I tried from GOG using the Heroic launcher, aside from some applications consistently launching in the incorrect window size (solved by using shift + super + arrow keys). Protondb showed 98% or so of my Steam library running fine without much if any modification.
I have a fairly decent gaming PC — why I decided to try PopOS first, based on online recommendations and some folks on discord — and as far as I can tell, performance has not noticeably changed since the earlier-mentioned reinstall.
I’m happy with how it’s been going the last few weeks, and it’s not like I never had ongoing debilitating issues with Windows. Further down the line, I might try out some other distros, but I’m content with how it’s going now.
I also swapped from google services to Proton (not related to the steam compatibility service) and a couple others, along with replacing android OS on my Pixel with GrapheneOS, which has been going well, but that’s not linux-specific.
That’s awesome! I’ve also had pretty good luck with gaming. The one thing I haven’t figured out how to fix yet is streaming to discord. If a game is running through the proton layer, discord doesn’t identify the game (I think the application gets called steamapp+random numbers), and I’m not sure how to direct it to it. Other than that, just some minor tweaking here or there.