The best one I’ve ever heard is they like the Microsoft wallpapers. Yes i told them you can use them on linux too. But they argued with me that they wouldn’t be compatible.
The best one I’ve ever heard is they like the Microsoft wallpapers. Yes i told them you can use them on linux too. But they argued with me that they wouldn’t be compatible.
I want to switch, but I need some help. I need to be able to “RDP” into remote machines. I think that one is probably easy and built-in from decades ago. I also need to be able to setup a Hyper-V equivalent, to run other machines from my main laptop- haven’t figured that one out yet. And for my media server (Plex), I need to understand the best way to setup a RAID5 or better across multiple drives. Any recommendations on guides for a lifelong NT4 MCSE & current Azure admin? I am sick of Win11 (and 10, 8.1 was OK, 7 was better… they just keep getting worse)
KDE has a built in RDP server you can enable!
If you’re using X server and not Wayland, xrdp is also good.
Remmina is a good RDP client.
GNOME Boxes might be what you’re looking for? KVM if you need a full blown hypervisor.
Thank you. I liked KDE when I played with Mandrake many years ago. Does that still exist? Maybe just dated the last time I tried to run Linux as my primary. I have “supported” Linux as needed throughout the years, but mostly through competent searches and general IT knowledge.
I’ve never heard Mandrake it but gave it a quick search and it seems they’ve been discontinued for a while.
KDE is alive and well! It honestly feels a bit like Windows 7 which was why I as a former Windows user like it. I personally use Fedora KDE and would recommemd it.
Remmina, do this every day for work from my Debian system.
Virtual box or QEMU + KVM. I use QEMU + KVM, works really well.
Recommend Jellyfin over Plex but in either case - if you want software RAID then use mdadm, this is how the RAID5 array on my jellyfin server works. Otherwise, there are compatible drivers for some hardware with actual hardware RAID5 arrays you can look up if you have such hardware.
For reference, all my machines whether client or server run either Debian 12 or Debian 13.
Thanks. I’ve had a lifetime subscription to Plex for more than 10 years and it works well on TVs and such for the few ppl I share it with (they’re all luddites). I also.may have mis-typed, I have a hardware RAID 5 off a ?Perc5 controller, but its NTFS and I would want to switch.
Well you’ll be glad to know that NTFS drivers are available these days on Linux!
I recommend libvirt + virt-manager as an alternative to hyper v.
The cool thing about virt manager is you can do it over ssh.
And which flavor of Linux? I would assume I’d use Ubuntu, but I don’t know the pros and cons of any of them.