Gregory's ServerAh #Linux, the problem solving OS!
So I connected to tailscale in attempts to use sshfs with my primary laptop back home. I even left that laptop running with sleep disabled. Oh no, I forget to start tailscale on it. So, I used another machine on my network to shh to that laptop and start tailscale. I could've used that same machine to sshfs with the laptop via routes, but that machine is slower, and is busy, so sshfs directly with the target machine is much better.
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I find it too difficult to do things in Linux. I feel like the OS is fighting me, trying to keep me from making something work. @DXMacGuffin How so? Email? Browser? Office? Just click the icon. File browser? Click it. @DXMacGuffin Hell, in Manjaro, the Arch based distro I'm using, even changing the kernel is a few GUI clicks away. It's been a couple years, but one of the last things I tried to do was update an expired certificate on a web app. I never could get Apache to use the new certificate, I ended up just leaving the expired one out there. To replace the certificate, I had to edit a config file....but I first I have to give myself read/write access to said config file, then use an ancient text editor and arrow keys to make the change I need. @DXMacGuffin Um... π€·π»ββοΈ I shouldn't need to open a command prompt and change permissions to make a minor change to a config file. It's equally foreign to me when Linux folks concluded the opposite of what I did - that Linux is easier than Windows. @DXMacGuffin I've had my very tech illiterate mother on Linux. My idiot former roommate who couldn't figure out the TV he used as a monitor switched to a different input after a power failure was on #Linux. @DXMacGuffin My whole job involves toiling away at Windows problems I either would never have on #Linux, or could fix in a couple lines on the terminal if I did have them.  @hellomiakoda @DXMacGuffin Windows is easier than Linux. I never have to use the command line (what a 1980s throw-back that is! - GUIs were invented for a reason!). (Unless I'm doing software development.) @TimWardCam @DXMacGuffin You can use #Linux without the command line. Most of us simply don't want to. |
You're not going to convince me Windows is better while I have access to my primary machine's 4 drives from some random food cart I found AND using this same connection as my VPN that I don't need to pay for. Sorry, Windows sucks ass. Maybe it CAN do this, but not easily enough that I've bothered to find it.