Maestro

Have you seen the state of the US? A “clown world capitalist dictatorship” is a pretty apt description

Since MS forced the upgrade, you should get 2025 for free. That would probably be really easy to argue in court

That’s all fine for technically inclined people, not for the scores of tech illiterate folk that need a big “migrate” button.

Yes, but the kids buying the modded devices may not be

ZFS isn’t built-in. I don’t know enough about btrfs to recommend it.

Bog-standard Debian with LVM. LVM can also do RAID, but you could also do mdadm below LVM if you prefer. Keep it simple.

22421382 here. I can’t believe I still know that number by heart after 20+ years.

The real people pushing this are lobbyists working for the companies that sell the monitoring software.

Definitely. But back in the day it was good for desktops. Ubuntu has never been good for servers.

I never understood why people run Ubuntu on servers. It’s madness. Ubuntu is a fork of unstable Debian packages. You don’t want unstable on your server!

Ubuntu on Desktop I can understand. Back in the days the Debian release was really long so much software was a tad outdated after a couple of years. But Debian had a much faster release cycle now, and had pretty much incorporated all the good stuff from Ubuntu and left the bad behind.

Gnome refuses to implement Server Side Decorations on Wayland (because… reasons) so applications are forced to draw their own. Kitty’s decorations are very bare bones and ugly. Alacritty’s decorations match much better with the rest of Gnome.

I use Alacritty on Gnome just because it has better window decorations than Kitty.