[−]gnuplustoejam · 2026-08-30 Sun 04:41 UTC ·
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Why does anyone bother with these ephemeral meme distros when you can accomplish the same with vanilla FreeBSD/Illumos/Linux using standard commands and documentation?
If you need your hand held to file share, that's why Windows Server still exists and is the gold standard for SMB.
[−]unethical_ban · 2026-08-30 Sun 09:33 UTC ·
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Why use open source when windows exists?
[−]televisionsaval · 2026-08-30 Sun 10:54 UTC ·
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If you have coworkers or other priorities it's sometimes preferable to have the option to have a hand held at some tasks or incidents rather than making sure someone competent read all the documentation pertaining to some irreversible command lines. You can try to treat a LLM as that hand holding but it can be a psychophantic member of group think while a checkbox stays a stable checkbox.
Because I don't want to spend that much time an all systems i'm running?
you also get a whole community testing the stack, fixing it too.
And don't be that pissi... when I started 20 years ago, stuff like this would have been the gateway to linux world and is for sure still today for plenty of people...
If you need your hand held to file share, that's why Windows Server still exists and is the gold standard for SMB.
you also get a whole community testing the stack, fixing it too.
And don't be that pissi... when I started 20 years ago, stuff like this would have been the gateway to linux world and is for sure still today for plenty of people...