Oh, yay! I’m a helper \o/
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Oh, yay! I’m a helper \o/
I haven’t tried this, but maybe ssh -t "rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb"
or something like to clear up some space would work.
One thing Debian introduced recently: apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
and they recommend that before a full dist-upgrade. I think it’s made a pretty big difference in the upgrade smoothness, eliminating some possibly-breaking package upgrades.
edit: I say recently but I mean new-to-me
I’d expect they’d ‘adopt’ the tools and redistribute them under the GPL, if they did.
It would be cool if the GNU project sponsored a new updated ‘standard’ set of tools though.
Oh lord that would sell me on mastodon instantly if I weren’t already there.
Yeah, I’m not sure what the state of the art is these days. Maybe SPICE? I’ve used that to control VMs through tunneled SSH before.
oh geez. I’ve done Windows desktop support for many years, and that is so VERY not true. Even if you discount the fact that win95 software would be written for 32-bit architectures, they don’t account for UAC or file permissions, often fail to let you move installation files to better locations, and universally have removedty automated installers. Often they depend on hardware, eg dongles that no longer exist or CDROMs that have long since gone to hell.
Usually we’ll airgap a machine and run Windows XP 32-bit, which is generally the highest you can reliably get a win95 program working with. Sometimes a VM will work. Sometimes you can mount an ISO and fake a CDROM. It’s a challenge.
Linux is so much easier. You have more options for getting old stuff to work, even if you have to do a lightweight VM with an old OS, you can sandbox it better.
I would probably go with VNC or something else instead of Teamviewer for supporting Linux desktops remotely. Maybe set people up with a pointy-clicky script to do a reverse SSH tunnel to a central host, or do it over a VPN connection.
Many places support MacOS as well, so it would only be a third additional toolset. Plus, there’s a ton of overlap between toolchains, which reduces the overhead further. If you’re supporting enterprise MacOS, you’re probably using Foreman, JAMF, or Puppet with Active Directory.
Not to mention, a lot of places already have Linux servers, so the configuration management toolchains and expertise may already exist in a given organization, unless they’re absolutely pathologically mired in the Windows ecosystem. Which, granted, is a lot of places, but you’re making it sound far harder than it would be in a real world situation.
mosh, tmux, htop, vim
Sssh, sssh, let people enjoy things
https://liquorix.net/ might give you a percentage or two in terms of responsiveness.
That doesn’t sound like Torvalds at all. The guy doesn’t suffer fools, but he doesn’t just pop off at people randomly. All accounts are that he’s a pretty chill dude.
In most other spaces, I have to defend my use of Linux. It’s refreshing to have a place where it’s more or less the default.