For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).
Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.
docker I guess, I still don’t know how it works, create them, etc
You don’t have to know how it works in order to use it. I don’t know either but I could host services using docker. trust me it’s way easier than it seems.
Same here. Even easier if you use an app to manage it for you like dockge, portainer, Cosmos, etc.
You don’t have to… if the project you want to use has a good setup process. Otherwise you’ll be scouring Docker docs, GitHub issues, and StackOverflow for years.
Docker, how they work?
Docker? I barely know her!
I’ve been using linux on and off for 20 years and docker reignited my interest for running linux. There’s plenty of good guides and free courses, if you need help finding one - let me know and I’ll send you a YT playlist.
Docker compose is amazing. I don’t even know how many things I’m running right now. Hell I’m running things I didn’t even use! (I could easily disable or delete them; I’m just lazy)
its counter intuitive to learn but a godsend after you learn it
And then when to do learn it, it pisses you off when something doesn’t have a freely available image.
How to docker-compose in thirty seconds.
Simply make a file called
compose.yaml
Then paste in the text from your application’s docker-compose instructions.
Often the timezone needs to be set, along with the volume
Example:
volume: /mnt/hdd/data:/data
This means the application’s data directory will be mounted at /mnt/hdd/data
Then
docker compose up -d
You’re done, that’s all there is.
docker-compose is fantastic because in a single compose.yaml file you can list multiple services.
For example, my compose.yaml file contains my sonarr/radarr/bazarr/lidarr/prowlarr/qbittorrent/deemix/jellyfish/jellyseerr
And I can update them all by running a shell script made of three lines.
