And to add to that, even with vanilla Gnome, you have the option to do what you like via extensions. If you want it to look like a Mac or Windows UI, you can!
My wife doesn’t care, as long as it works. If I can set up favorites/shortcuts to the stuff she needs access to, she’s golden.
I don’t think Photoprism has contextual search. Anyway, immich installed and running on my NAS 🤭
I’m curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she’s hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?
It’s like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.
Any software she already uses would be available as a flatpak, so even updating is easier vs windows.
Also, it’s 1am and I’m in the middle of fiddling with a self-hosted docker image of Immich on my Synology NAS… so much for living by my own rules 😂
Are you going to talk down to me because I’m not using Arch? LOL 😆
At my age, I just want something that works. Long gone are the days when I enjoyed staying up through the night to fix shit on my computer. 🤭
I really don’t know what the problem was with Ubuntu. I had issues every time I tried… but funny enough, these problems seemed to only happen if I was running a live USB or an installed copy. Ubuntu or Mint on a VM seems to work just fine! LOL
Oh well, I’m quite happy with where I’m at now, but I’m glad that my past issues don’t seem common or “normal”.
it’s not user-hostile by design like windows
Truth!
You install Linux, and you start using Linux.
With Windows, you go through a painfully long installation process, then spend another hour debloating all the shortcuts and shit it installs. Then more time closing out boxes for offers. Then you have to harden it before your data is stolen…
Don’t get me wrong, Windows has been stable and reliable for me, but this is likely due to the fact that my installation has been tweaked over the years. Using it fresh is a horrible experience. Reminds me of using the internet without an adblocker! LOL
Yes! As much as I wanted to love Mint and Ubuntu, they just didn’t work well for me. Aurora has been amazing.
I am trying to stay with Flatpak apps (for convenience and probably stability, too), but I feel pretty safe installing apps outside of Discover, if needed. Fortunately, most of the stuff I use is already supported as a Flatpak, so it hasn’t been a big shock.
I feel like if people started on Linux first, moving to Windows would seem like a massive PITA and a huge backwards! I’ll be moving my wife to Bluefin in the near future. She’s unbelievably hopeless with computers, but I honestly think it would be easier for her to use Gnome on Bluefin than Windows!
I mean, even just the fact that everything seems to simply work (i.e. drivers) without messing around is mind-blowing. Huge kudos to anyone who’s helped to build Linux into what it is today.
It’ll be interesting to see how my desktop handles it. It’s like 15 years old, and I remember always having to mess around to get things working right, especially wifi.
also to be extra safe you can just mount your external images folder as read only by adding :ro to the docker volume mount so that the container won’t be able to modify anything as a precaution.
This is what I was thinking, too.
Alright, looks like I’ll be setting it up soon! LOL
Is it easy to self-host immich so that it operates on a READ-ONLY basis with my images? I really only want to use it for the local-AI indexing/search, but not as a backup or photo management solution (Synology Photos works just fine for that).
Yes, I’m using the Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX210 No vPro®. It’s been very stable, and highly performent (on Windows, at least). So far, no issues with Wifi on Fedora-based distros.
It’s the 11th Gen Framework 13 running:
From the look of it, I may just have really bad luck with Ubuntu and related distros.
I’ve been on Fedora for the last 24h, and it’s been incredibly stable. Even heavy multitasking with Boxes running two VMs in the background! haha
Someone below mentioned Aurora, Bazzite’s sister. I currently use Bluefin, which is another of Bazzite’s sisters, also on Framework,
I know nothing about these… but I just installed Aurora in Boxes to try, and damn, it’s nice. Maybe a little “too busy”, but it’s got everything I could ask for out of the box (no need for extension manager). I might replace Mint with Aurora on my MiniPC, but if it’s as unbreakable as they say, it may replace Fedora.
Right now, Fedora has still be very stable, but since I’m staring from scratch, I might as well get it right the first time. I’ll be experimenting more to see which I prefer.
I bought it before the coup and threats to my country! 😂
Funny enough, it looks my laptop manufacturer now officially supports Bazzite! Very cool.
I really appreciate that. I really do.
Considering how the EU is now looking to make a distro… based on Fedora… I’m more comfortable with the idea.
And you are right, FOSS projects are a collaboration, and I think it’s worth for me to explore the best option for me, rather than what I feel might be the best option.
That said, I’m backing up my Home folder, I’ve got memtest loaded on a flash drive ready to run, and I’ll be prepping Fedora 41 to install once that’s all done :)
Do your issues appear on a fresh install?
Before, during, and after a fresh install, depending on the day I’ve tried! LOL
I’m going to do a proper memtest as others have suggested. Then I may just start fresh again, perhaps with another distro. Thank god it’s Friday, so I’ve got a few days to sort this out. haha
Figured it out :) It’s indexing my media now!