Yep, this is how we’ve kept ours for over 20 years. Even if you don’t use the command line, most graphical file browsers will search through text files without issue.

One of these days I’ll get around to setting up my own email server, but in the meantime I just take advantage of introductory offers on shared hosting plans. I purchase the 3-year plans and end up paying about $3-4/mo (CAD). When the plan is nearing expiry, I take my data and move on to the next web host. Been doing this for about 28 years now.

If your hobby is technology and you enjoy spending time learning this stuff, then go for it. You’ll probably have a good time, and you likely won’t stop at Void.

If this is more of a grass is greener over there thing, then consider that constantly switching your software environment is just time taken from something else, and it’s time you’ll never get back. Ever. The pursuit of minimalism can often bring the opposite of its desire effect.

Samba is also generally supported better than NFS on mobile file managers.

Ubuntu is (mostly) based on Debian. This is simply a move by Ubuntu to further push their own packaging platform which is effectively proprietary at this time. Debian’s own packaging will remain unchanged.

Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE all offer excellent alternatives depending on your reasons for staying.

Radicale on the home server, which syncs contacts and calendaring for us. Thunderbird on the desktop. Fossify Calendar on Android, synced to Radicale via DAVx⁵.

Nice! I’m not a KDE user, but I’m always happy to see more markdown editors under development!

In my opinion, the web browser is the single most important application that should be sandboxed on a system. We use them to access nearly everything on the Internet, including resources that are routinely laden with obfuscated JavaScript.

Every attempt should be made to separate the browser from the host system, and circumventing that safeguard in order to facilitate direct access to your password database is risky at best.

Edit: I don’t mean to suggest that I have the perfect solution either, but I keep everything sandboxed and just opt for KeePassXC’s native global hotkey for auto-filling credentials.

Right, here’s an enlightening synopsis by Evan Boehs:

https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

I think you’ve already received plenty of feedback here, for better or worse, so I’ll just add that you’re going find quirks in any operating system if you use it long enough; Windows is no exception.

Windows and macOS also introduce privacy and security complexities due to their proprietary nature. If that doesn’t bother you more than the annoyances you’ve encountered under Linux, do whatever works for you.

I love how easy this has become. I can’t imagine ever going back to a traditional distro model.

I think you’ll be out of luck for 3 slots, but you could always use the native slot for OS and dock the other 2 via USB with RAID capability in something like this.

I admit I typically hide the RPM Firefox and stick to the flatpak version. Aside from Nautilus though, in my experience most of the core GNOME user apps are provided via flatpak under Silverblue, including things like GNOME Calendar, Text Editor, Contacts, Totem, Evince, EoG, etc.

It’s available via Flatpak though. It’s been a dream to use…very fast, lots of options, and excellent container integration.

Leveraging flatpaks, as per the recommended workflow, largely negates these issues as well. Userspace apps shouldn’t be impacted by the host OS changes in such cases.

I’m a big fan of the Intel NUC platform, coupled with a fanless case and all-SSD/NVMe drives. They’re low-powered, fast enough for most common tasks, and completely silent.

I have an NVMe drive for the OS (currently Proxmox, soon to be Debian again or Fedora), containers and VMs, and an internal 8TB SSD for data storage (whole disk encrypted). This may not meet your needs if you’re intending to be a data hoarder, but I have a sizeable movie and lossless music collection accumulated over 25 years and I’m not even using 4TB yet.

You can of course still use a similar setup but keep even larger storage on a NAS device, or simply use a USB dock with a couple of 16TB drives. It’s really down to whatever your needs are.

I love that the server, router, modem, and switch use such a small footprint and are able to be powered for up to an hour by an equally small and inexpensive 600VA UPS.

Depends on your power needs. My home server is an Intel NUC, so I’m able to keep it, the modem, router, and main switches running through most power outages with an APC 600VA UPS for about $80 USD.

Ah, gotcha. I think that’s just due to /sbin not being included in the PATH environmental variable for non-root users. Running sudo <command> will work in those cases.

Hmm, why are you not able to shutdown/reboot from the terminal? I don’t have any Debian systems running at the moment (other than Proxmox), but I’ve used Debian for over a decade and never had any issue using the terminal for power management functions (Proxmox included).