Simply download the official Windows ISO, open VirtualBox, mount the ISO, install Windows inside VM.

If you have a product key, put it there, otherwise simply run it unlicensed.

Afterwards install the VirtualBox host additions inside the VM.

Note that VirtualBox isn’t open source, so if that’s a concern for you, you’d need to use a different software. IIRC virt-manager is kinda easy to use, though not as user friendly as VirtualBox.

Wubi was awesome!

Anyway, what’s hard about seeing up dual booting? Doesn’t the installer simply do it for you?

LGTM, approved.

Just use Mongo, it scales so well!

Never understood why anyone chose Mongo. Though I have some funny memories getting rid of it because it was slowing the app down sooo much.

If you need something for storing JSONs and querying, just use ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.

You should see my former bosses, when everyone else was slowly realising AI isn’t a magic tool to solve everything they tripled down and implemented AI into every possible single process in the company.

The AI bullshit is like 40% the reason I left, the other 60% being micromanagement.

I use that one too but the development isn’t really active anymore.

Well, I do this for a living, so not viable I can get the proper tools. But the minute JetBrains does an Android build, I’m trying it.

I was thinking of doing exactly that multiple times, Samsung DeX is very nice to use. But without a proper IntelliJ IDE it would be a pain.

As usual: begin with Linux Mint (Cinnamon), that’s the best beginner distro.

Steam is natively supported. Gog and Epic are easy using Heroic Games Launcher. GamePass is impossible.

If you need Photoshop, you can run it through wine, at least the old CS6 version runs fine. I think I once had CC 2014 and it worked well, too.

Spotify and Discord work well. As for VPNs, you’d have to be more specific.

Does it need to be that specific tld? There are plenty you can use, like .eu if you’re from eu, or .dev if you’re a developer etc.

Seconding caddy, it’s extremely simple.

Nothing beats caddy for simplicity, IMO.

If you’re on your home WiFi, try the private IP, it will most likely start with 192.168, though it’s possible it will start with 10 or 172.

If you’re accessing it over an external IP, you need to forward ports to the host that runs Immich. Note that not all ISPs support it, you might be out of luck.

But accessing it on the same network (like the same WiFi) should always be possible, you just need to know the correct IP address.

Yes. Everything is a hardware failure because where does the software run? That’s right, on hardware. So software bug = hardware failure.

Well, that’s just a blog. WordPress comes to mind, though try not abusing it by installing too many plugins and transforming it to an abomination that takes 3 seconds to hack.

There are probably more modern alternatives, I personally wrote my own blog system that uses ActivityPub to synchronise with Lemmy and others.

Syncthing for files syncing, to replace stuff like OneDrive, Dropbox etc.

I use to sync files between my NAS, laptop, Steam Deck and phone, each with different dirs based on what I need synced there.

It’s not any more secure. The point that “installing random debs is insecure” has been running around for at least the last 16 years I’ve been a Linux user.

While it’s technically true, AppImages are as secure as random debs. Same with random repositories that are not provided by your system. Same with flatpaks.

And unless you’re an extremely basic user, you’ll eventually have to install an application not in your repositories. The method doesn’t really matter, it’s all equally (in)secure.

Well, NixOS is mostly for enthusiasts and it’s very much the opposite of beginner friendly.

The idea is that you configure your system in a configuration file, then run a command that makes your system match exactly what you configured.

So instead of apt install or similar you just add the package to your config, run a single command to rebuild the system and you’re done.

Which also means you’re mostly on your own, most guides for other distros don’t work and the documentation on how to do the things in NixOS are very incomplete. It’s nice and fun, but definitely not for an average user.

Please, no…

It literally does the same thing, except it’s self hosted?