You don’t need dundns or certs if you’re not opening this up to the world. Just use a VPN instead and make it easy on yourself. Tailscale wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Not really. If it was power efficient, MAYBE, but it’s not because it’s a super old chip AND a laptop. It’s a vampire device.

You can buy a 6W minipc for like $40 tat6would be more useful.

Try disabling the power saving settings for the machine, and make sure your power profile is set to ‘performance’. See if that changes anything.

I am certain this is a power issue, but where it’s stemming from us difficult to tell without actually seeing the machine.

Would also be useful if you check your BIOS for voltage settings for your CPU/MEM, and your PCIE lanes.

You sure your PSU can handle this new card AND all your other components?

A good sign it can’t is if this only happens when your card is under a fair amount of utilization.

I’m not aware of any consumer distros that use TPM enrollment for anything out of the box, though the tools may be present.

Have a look at how Clevis works. That will give you an idea of how easy it is to work tish TPM in Linux.

1. You need to enable debug logging for NUT
2. Run systemctl --failed and see if you get anything there
3. Make sure you run the journal back all the way through boot and see if anything during boot time is obvious
4. Post your systems units here

That’s…an opinion that is not backed by any facts at all. What in the world are you talking about with “bloat” 🤣

So you’re a newbie, and making lots of wild claims and taking awfully opinionated positions in this thread all over the place. I don’t think you want help, so just be on your way 👍

This…is not accurate. Not being pedantic, just correcting the misunderstanding so you know the difference.

LTS releases are built to be stable on pinned versions of point release kernel and packages. This ensures that a team can expect to not have to worry about major changes or updates for X years.

Rolling Releases are simply updating new packages to whatever versions become available when released. Pretty much the opposite of an expected stable release for any period of time.

Doesn’t have anything to with “forced reinstall” of anything. If you’ve been having to fully reinstall your OS every time a new LTS is released, you are kind of doing extra unnecessary work.

Well, to be honest, you’re choosing the two most difficult distros to manage.

It sounds like you’re kind of new to the area…why not just use Fedora?

Would be helpful hearing about WHY you want to switch if you’re already happy.

In what way?

Maybe I’m missing something, but a VPN to your home router gets you HA access.

Do you mean you want automated notifications and such?

You won’t need a terminal unless you refuse to use the GUI tools that do the same thing.

If you want to use the terminal, go for it and use the default. If you eventually find it lacking THEN start investigating different options.

Just use everything as you normally would otherwise, and you shouldn’t notice a huge shift.

Well, no. Not to shoot down your comment or anything, but you’ve only learned a lot about Nix still in your example.

For instance, if someone presented you with an Arch system of some sort and asked why a certain systems unit wasn’t working, or why the speakers on their laptop don’t work but the headphones jack does, or why their Nvidia kmod modules aren’t loading.

Your experience with Nix is t going to help with some of the more basic functions of a traditional Linux system because of the abstractions in top of abstractions that you’re used to interacting with on Nix.

I’m not even digging on Nix, like I said, it was designed for a very specific purpose. I’ve run hundreds, if not thousands, of various build system permutations on Nix over the years, and even I wouldn’t even think about using it for really basic stuff like running a Desktop 🤣

If you simply just want to track config file changes, use a flat git repo, or something like Ansible.

That’s going to be a helluva lot simpler for you to learn and execute on.

Traditional and Immutable distros as working OSes are not knowledge compatible at all. The software that runs on it is the same, but everything else about how they run, are executed, managed, installed…etc, all different.

Nix is Immutable, and on top of that, has an entire configuration language you need to manage.

If you’re not familiar with a standard Linux OS, you’re going to have a bad time, I can tell you that.

As far as your concepts of “random commands” not being used as part of the running of a system, that is not quite correct. You will still to track adhoc changes to different services or configurations that would then need to also be applied and executed in a NiX config in the proper place to ensure proper order of execution.

Let’s just say it’s an advanced system that serves a purpose meant for repeatable testing and CI/CD type operations. It’s not really meant to be a user-friendly system to make managing your desktop easier, so. don’t misunderstand this one important fact.

I would use any other venue available than FB Marketplace, honestly.

They are DevKits, as someone else mentioned. Very literally described as such.

Don’t be upset when you get exactly what they state by ignoring their own words.

Mint doesn’t use Gnome or KDE, which is why devs generally steer clear. It’s best to be coding and running the thing the most number of users will be experiencing.

People in here like to hate, but there’s a damn good reason. The majority of the people who are vocal about distribution choice aren’t contributors, long-time users, or experts in the field. A lot of us who are just want a simple, quick installing, porting, “out of the way” (no heavy customizations) and functional distro with a large user base, and a solid team behind it. This means it’s not going to immutable, and it’s not going to to be by Canonical.

A lot of us use Fedora for this exact reason.

I’m aware of what it is. This is a Fedora Server install that shouldn’t have it enabled by default because it generally only fits the use-case of home users. Someone installing the default package list in an enterprise setting would not want this enabled.

I even checked to be certain, and it is not enabled by default.