@c3r38r170 return to office

@adhdeveloper I work for NYS- public sector

@bittersweet this could be way off base, but I thought var was for VARiable storage, so the storage for running programs/services that can change frequently like /var/www/

How I learned the dirs:
/bin - Binaries
/usr - Unix Standard Resources
/usr/local - host specific USR
/opt - optional data, reserved for non-OS programs (static or self contained programs IE Discord, only really lives in /opt on some distros)
/usr/share - Resources IE icons, themes etc
/etc - Editable Text Configuration

Then the whole /bin, /usr/bin, etc were trying to be cleaned up last I checked, they are REALLY dated but also really modern because older Nix Systems like Plan9 would have /bin just be a concatenation of /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, and ~/bin. Iirc, Debian and such got rid of /bin, and it's just a symlink to /usr/bin

For /usr/local, by host specific I mean that you can actually have /usr be a NFS/bound mount point, so multiple hosts can have the same standard resources HOWEVER local usually isn't.

Yes but it was created in house with IBM

That would frighten me. That long of an uptime leaves so much room for things to go wrong. Your kernel could have vulnerabilities, you could be running versions of programs that are patched and only exist in memory, etc. I like regularly scheduled maintenance just to make sure a single power outage couldn't detail an entire server

What is WinRAR even used for? I've only ever seen it in memes

This sounds amazing, I'll bring dessert

@AmyShackles you the real MVP

Regular expressions aren't meant to be understood, they're meant to be magic. The other day I was trying to nuke specific drives on an install (Storinator by 45 Drives) and randomly pulled out '/dev/sd[^abd]$' I don't know what possessed me to put the ^ inside the bracket, or the $ at the end, but it successfully pulled every device it needed, and ignored the partitions because apparently $ meant end of line. I know I studied this witchcraft at some point in college but I've never actually used it like that. Then you have people who can even pull data out of regular expressions! /(1/). My heroes lol

Why not Pinterest? Aka the birthplace of the Karen

If you’re over 50 just learn COBOL.. guaranteed employment in the financial industry for decades

I'm going to Necro the hell out of this but still, Univention Corporate Server- it's Debian but Windows thinks it's active directory, and it's compatible with Linux realms. It has so many features that I'm finding useful!!

@MrMarlin don't get rid of it cold turkey, just slowly phase it out. Eventually you'll go months without touching the windows partition lol you will become one of us 😈 lower your Shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile

PXE can be fun, used it to beat an old 32 bit Toshiba portege laptop into submission. Put a minimal Debian install on PXE because it refused to boot via USB or CD. Thing has 2GB ram, a serial port, and an Ethernet port. At my job we use it to manage switches via SSH and serial, like a Swiss Network Knife.

@nate eau mai

@Haxk20 Gentoo all the way

You can block the Windows updater from the firewall!

@Root yes please

sudo kill -9 DZone

@512GB well, sometimes it involves freakish bash commands- others a baseball bat. Preferably aluminum.

Filling up /var/log with various complaints?

@filthyranter sometimes when I don't have projects to work on, brew gets amgry

@theKarlisK their BIOS is VERY strange but I'll look into it! I didn't have to change anything on my older ones

@canonbolt ah, PHP?

Welcome aboard! Feel free to try all the distros since you don't have to spend $120 for licensing (well... Redhat maybe) but be warned. Once you turn to Gentoo, your life is over. There's no escaping.

@Biggy 😏😏😏

*laughs in Swift*

Brew Brew brew

*Waits for flames*

At least it could print Hello in it's broken state!

I may not have as much Linux/Windows experience as other people in this thread, but I've been using Linux for about 7 years now; since my freshman year of highschool. Over the years more and more of my family has been crossing the line from Windows to Linux because they see how fast my computer runs, and how customizable it is. Not to mention; when it breaks- it's usually easier to fix and debug (almost always a DNS issue..). With that background, I can still play my games like WoW and Overwatch in WinE. When using Ubuntu I noticed that things sometimes did weird things, but since then I've moved to just using raw Debian, or Linux Mint (which is derived from Ubuntu). Mint flat out asks if you want to install Wine straight from the Welcome Screen; and the process to get it going was straightforward. As for Linux games, I haven't had any issues with Steam. Installing a 32bit library is an interesting requirement; but trying to do so without reading what others say about it is a bad idea. Especially if just installing the library removes packages you need. When it comes to Linux, you can do almost anything you want, just remember forums are your friend.