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What software have you found particularly frustrating or difficult to configure on Linux?

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[–] Joelk111 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Recently? Email notifications for my crontab jobs. I learned that snapraid sync had been failing for 200 DAYS. I was thinking it'd be easy for some reason. It hasn't been.

Overall though, Nextcloud was a nightmare and I just gave up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In recent years I've found NextCloud to reasonable. A little delicate initially, but once you have it working, the upgrades are very easy.

[–] Joelk111 1 points 1 month ago

I also realized that I just didn't need all of the functionality and such. In reality I just need a file sharing system akin to Google drive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jellyseer in docker. It won’t accept my jellyfin login. It just spins and spins. But I plan to use it locally. And everyone says you have to sign in initially not local? I don’t know. I’m annoyed with it and gave up for now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think this means it can't actually see your jellyfin instance, you need to use your computer's local network ip instead of localhost if the two containers aren't in the same pod via a docket compose file. I've had this issue before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Nah. It’s on the same docker compose file through portainer. And I’ve been using the local ip. I never use local host for some reason lol

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cloud-init. The config yaml is rather straight forward, but I can't convince my VM to execute it, and it's driving me nuts.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

X11. Luckily those days are over thanks to Wayland but, Jesus, are X.org config files a fucking, fiddly PITA to configure!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

xorg.conf. The (wrong) example from Arch Wiki works but following the official documentation doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

hostapd. I have no idea how you’re supposed to figure out the 50 or so options OpenWrt outputs for an AX card that I just ended up copying. And why doesn’t it detect those on its own?

[–] tomsh 2 points 1 month ago

Rootless podman, PostgreSQL, redis, nextcloud, nginx, iptables in one....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Motion on my RPI. I didn't want it to save videos or photos, so I turned it off in the config. But it still saved them. So I tried a few other places in the config to turn it off, but nothing worked and I'd run out of space within a day. So I changed the save directory to /dev/null.

Then I tried to upgrade the pi, and the new version of motion has a different config, incompatible with the old one. So I'm running the old one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Caddy. The config and docs suck.

Eg. I thought I configured it to limit some sites to an allowlist of IPs. Turns out (months later) the config did nothing, but ran anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Skyrim mods.

Btw, anyone got the new reshade working on wine?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I gave up trying to setup a Mastodon server in docker. Lemmy was pretty tricky at the time as the docs were wrong. My email server was a bit tricky, but I've not really done much to tinker with it in the proceeding 6 years, so was worth it.

[–] sol6_vi 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

fucking jellyfin still doesnt reliably work for me. ugh.

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