it’s 300TB

when you install a DE as part of system setup it’s usually preconfigured by the distro maintainers. otherwise you need to do that configuration yourself, which is more difficult.

cringe

of course but it doesn’t help the “this isn’t that hard” case.

yeah but that’s a step removed. if i’m helping someone set up a machine i will usually make the media beforehand, but they need to be present to set up their name and password.

idk if you’ve ever tried to guide people unfamiliar with computers through troubleshooting over the phone, but my experience is that the more explanations are given the more they despair, and the more choices are given the more confused they get.

reading the manual is sort of compulsory if you want to do stuff like changing DEs, and for most people (read: the 99% that don’t know what “operating system” means) the mere existence of a choice is enough to cause paralysis.

i really do like the new wave of “opinionated” distros like kalpa, cachy and aeon where the system takes care of most issues rather than the user having to deal with them. shows maturity. but this selector screen sort of runs contrary to that. either be opinionated or be fully free, imo.

i think that’s calamares, so any distro that uses it can technically do this. the reason most don’t is that you can just add more DE’s after install. i know endeavourOS and openSUSE do this, and i think fedora has something like this too?

but the main reason is to keep install size to a minimum. if you want your system to be installable without an internet connection you can’t just ship every DE known to man.

it’s definitely not an exact clone, they’re very different. movement, graphics, terrain constraints and the sorts of mods people make differ drastically.

yeah this project has been on github for six years and seems to have been closed source before that. it’s a graphical automation tool.

like, everything can be used with ai. github itself has “ai agent” plastered everywhere. it’s just a buzzword. doesn’t mean it’s built specifically for ai.

could be one of those cases where the product predates ai but some c-level asked an engineer “could we use this for ai” and the engineer said “i mean, technically yes” and then marketing changed every single mention of the product

i like how everyone got hooked on the cgnat thing when i gave the actual solution in the main post. but yeah there’s always the option of not doing anything until i see issues.

i’ll worry about the nat traversal when i get my bouncer back up, but it will probably be less full-featured than pangolin. previously i just used a reverse ssh setup but that was a bit too rudimentary.

that’s also a possibility, but i’m going to have to whine to my isp.

as i said i’m getting my bouncer server set back up next year after the datacenter it’s in has finished renovations, so actually getting a public address is not the biggest issue.

i was sort of asking the opposite question to this answer, i think.

my registrar provides ddns, but how does that help with cgnat when thousands of people potentially have the same address?

i’ve set up servers with static ips in datacenter settings before. the way you know you’re online is usually that your cpu activity jumps a few percent from all the incoming ssh traffic from russia and china. i don’t want to risk anything happening to my home server.

all of the issues listed are closed so any recent version is fine.

also, you probably don’t need to deploy this unless you have a problem with bots.

I started using aeon, which comes with a specially-configured snapper integrated with systemd and the package manager, a while ago. it’s so nice to have a system that does automatic updates, has automatic rollback, and cannot be broken by using it like a normal user.

it’s not completely stable yet, but what’s there is really cool. heads up if you want to try it that it’s made to be the only os on your machine and so will wipe all partitions on the drive you install it on.