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  • I have limited my usecases for selfhosting and thrown money at the problem. The usecases are:

    • image hosting and sharing with the family
    • backups of our family computers
    • digital file hosting
    • media hosting

    The last one is expendable. The first three are backed up into the cloud. I use a Synology, thus throwing money at the problem. Their cloud backup just works.

    Edit: use cases I do not self host are a mail server for example. The stress outweighs the 12€/year I pay for the service.






  • WhiteHotaru@feddit.detoLinux@lemmy.mlBeginner Linux Guides
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    6 months ago

    +1 for Linux Mint for the power user. They will fell familiar and can start their journey from there. The most important concept I would explain would be package managers and flat pack, as in vanilla Windows there is no such thing.

    The second one would be regular updates and that you have to do a little maintenance from time to time

    Mint would be my recommendation for the noob as well. It is a clean distro and does not require a lot of maintenance except regular updates.









  • Thanks for the advice!

    My Apple devices are from work and we are able to use them privately with admin rights. On my private account I have mostly open source software like Quodlibet for my music collection, Firefox, Inkscape, and so on. My Mailaccount is from a small German privacy by design provider. I have a Synology NAS I run Paperless NGX and Jellyfin on. I switch Operating systems regularly.

    I think I am well set up 😁.