Another thing to note, it seems that immutable is the future of linux. The Fedora project roadmaps the Atomic desktop taking over the traditional Workstation. OpenSUSE also looks to be moving to it as the default in Leap 16. Being new to the ecosystem might be advantageous because you don’t have the old habits.

I used one with Fedora for a while. The problem I had is whenever it would randomly disconnect, Fedora could not handle it gracefully. It would lock up the system and require a hard reboot. Windows has been a bit more graceful about things. I’m hoping the next generation or maybe oculink will be better.

I’ve been using this image with different providers for years. I would highly recommend it.

https://hub.docker.com/r/qmcgaw/ddns-updater

I was just adding context to the Fedora part of your statement. Honestly, Fedora has some work to do in order to really leverage it fully. When they fully integrate snapper, or something like it, then it will be actually using the benefits of btrfs imo.

Pigeonholed on Linux because of the incompatible license. It can’t be a part of the kernel. No technical reason it can’t, only legal reasons it can’t.

Fedora adopted it as default with Fedora 33. SUSE has been using it as default for many years now. Facebook is one of the largest users and contributors to btrfs. It’s a solid filesystem when it’s not used to do things it warns you not to do.

You could potentially do it even better the other way around. You can use clevis and tang to have network bound disk encryption setup. That way, anytime you’re connected to your network the disk auto decrypts. For laptops, I like to put a decryption key on a USB drive that auto decrypts the drive. Network bound disk encryption doesn’t work over wifi and this way I can still have it decrypt on the go but lock it by removing the USB key (like if you leave the laptop in the hotel room just take the USB out and keep it with you).

The truly stand-alone part is the worst part. It doesn’t integrate with your system well and has no convenient way to keep apps up to date.

I could argue that it’s the worst of the three… Appimage is awful.

You aren’t using the Steam flatpak?

That’s really cool. I guess the only advantage is pushd and popd is that they’re usually already installed.

pushd and popd are good for keeping a history and going back to different directories.

Windows indexes files too though.

And the garages in my new estate are tiny… So they can cram more in and make more money.

It’s probably different in the UK, but in the US this might not even be the reason. A lot of cities in the US have regulations that require X parking spots per newly constructed home. It becomes prohibitively expensive to build something like a midsize apartment building because of the parking requirements.

The ad campaign by Oracle and SUSE is working. Red Hat made changes to the way it distributes source because they wanted other groups to use the community upstream and become part of the community instead of just copy and pasting Red Hat source. Now Oracle and SUSE are doing exactly what Red Hat was hoping the community would do while acting like they’re defying and battling Red Hat… In the end Red Hat’s goal was achieved. More community involvement with more special interest groups contributing to a better Enterprise Linux for everyone.

This is one of the jobs of OpenLDAP.

It will get to CentOS through Fedora. Always patch as far upstream as you can.

Fedora is where this sort of thing is supposed to go. That’s been Red Hat philosophy since forever. Patch as high upstream as you can. Sounds like this is a non issue.