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Cake day: June 9th, 2025

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  • What distro should I use?

    This always feels like a loaded question. I don’t believe there is a one choice that is “right.”

    After distro hopping and trying many, I have come to a few realizations for myself.

    There are a few factors to consider:

    • What Desktop Environment (if any…): KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Cosmic, etc (this gets a bit more complicated depending on if you don’t want a desktop environment. You could just go CLI or with just a Window Manager like Hyprland, Sway, i3, or others I’m unfamiliar with.)
    • What package manager are you comfortable with? And what style of package management do you want? Do you want older but tested and more stable? Do you want bleeding edge?
    • Is systemd a deal breaker for you?

    Really what I am getting at, you don’t know what you don’t know. So test out many! You can do this in a Virtual Machine with Virtualbox on Windows before switching.







  • I have been running my own dockerized instance of SeaeXNG for years now. I love it. I have it setup behind a reverse proxy to serve a cert for https and I am always VPN’d into my home network (split tunnel for only apps I want to use my home network anyways) and it has been working like a charm.

    Search results are reliable, and it’s customizable.