Aa!

Because the entire “Change my mind” thing came from a Crowder stunt, I don’t feel like this is a whole lot better.

Don’t get me wrong, Calvin in a Crowder meme is better than Crowder in a Crowder meme. But I think we should lose the “Change my Mind” bit entirely.

WSL has replaced my use of the command prompt in Windows for anything (and I used it more than most, I think).

In my job, I develop Linux applications to support industrial automation, and WSL is capable of building and running most of what I make. It isn’t a full Linux machine, and can behave unexpectedly when trying to do things like changing certain network configurations.

So it’s great for what it’s for, really. But if you want a full VM, this isn’t really for that.

I’m not sure which hop in the federation chain is censoring random shit but I despise it.

In your case, that would be lemmy.ml. The only way you can get around it is to hop instances.

A couple of main points:

• You are reading tutorials to help you get it up and running. Most of the time these are designed to walk you through setting things up on a fresh node, and most often just VMs on an isolated (trusted) network. When you are providing a guide to just get someone up and running, the first thing to do is establish a known baseline configuration to start from.
• Kubernetes is a complex distributed application, and as such, the audience is generally expected to be relatively experienced. Meaning if you don’t know how to configure your firewall, people assume you aren’t going through this tutorial.

Still, I feel your pain. When trying to get into these technologies, most people who have done the work are engineers, and we stink at writing documentation. I’m sure you’re familiar with it, we automate the solutions for issues we encounter, and then those tools or automatic configurations fail to make it to the end user.

And I’m probably biased, but don’t use a video guide for this sort of thing. It’s just the wrong medium for a technical tutorial.

I guess the main things would be:

• As a beginner, don’t bother trying to dual boot – If you still need a Windows box, get some cheap hardware to do your Linux work on. It’s too easy to screw up both systems otherwise.
• Don’t get too hung up on a specific distro, the better you are at dealing with different configurations, the better prepared you will be for whatever comes. Once you’ve gotten one set up, don’t be afraid to just try a different one.

It’s funny, it does do this when Windows restarts outside of your control.

But if you manually trigger a reboot, it assumes you closed all your windows intentionally.

At least that’s how it behaves for me

We like Alpine because it doesn’t run afoul of our outbound software license to distribute container images with it.

Of course most folks aren’t distributing full container images with their licensed software, so this niche probably doesn’t apply to most people.