I used to be an App Support guy for server apps written in C that ran on Linux. Was a fun gig and I learned a lot. Daily drive it on all of my machines. At my current gig I maintain all of our linux servers in addition to doing a lot of windows stuff (AD, RDS, etc). Wish I could get back to a pure Linux or Unix environment though, but all of my coworkers are clickmins and the job market is bad where I live.
For desktop stuff I use EndeavorOS. Is arch, but you don't have to spend a pile of time configuring your system. You can pick from a wide variety of DE or WMs, and it makes send defaults and includes very little. For server stuff I prefer Rocky Linux as RHEL's documentation is very good and I'm not an expert. For LCX/Docker or machines that are more 'single use appliance' than server I use Alpine as it's small and I dont have to harden it much. OPNsense or openWRT for firewalling and routing. Would like to start using BSD more though, particularly for pure web servers, storage boxes, and for networking stuff. Maybe one day when I have more time.
>>2520Boot from a liveCD on that host so you can examine the logs. For ISOs I'm partial to Rufus. You toss it on a USB, and then drop your ISOs onto it. You then select which one you want to boot. There are a lot of LiveCDs built for specific tasks that are handy to have.
For Debian based systems PopOS is considered the good ez distro, Mint is still good. Ubuntu isn't well maintained these days. For Redhat based stuff everyone moved away from CentOS to Rocky Linux, as CentOS was moved upstream of RHEL. Arch is Arch. I like EndeavorOS for Arch based stuff. It's minimal but you don't have to build your own system. Nix is cool if you want to manage packages very very differently, although I can't be bothered to learn it personally.
>>2380I ran one for a while. Supported Gopher and HTML, but after an initial influx of users no one was active and I lost interest in maintaining it.
also moar os-tan