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    552 months ago

    Is Dd not an option? I dont get why every distro need their own usb image writer when dd and ventoy already exist.

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      dd literally has the nickname “disk destroyer”, and it is a well-earned title. Once you have a bad default choice and no pre-installed alternative, you’ll have at minimum 3 competing tools. Just the way the world works.

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      Unraid doesn’t use images you can download. They check the USBs UUID GUID before installing. I am not defending this, but as it’s going to be the boot device for the server this is a little handy feature.

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        262 months ago

        the unique GUID in the device’s rom is what they tie your license to.

        unraid does have instructions and software as zip files for manually preparing a flash drive to run their software from. you don’t have to use their scary binary media creator tool. see here

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      Love my Unraid tons of built in features that make it easy to use as a home server. Not that you can’t manually do everything yourself without it but it makes things a whole lot simpler. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting to save time and effort if one wants.

      For example they have an app store for docker containers. But what if they are missing something? Oh you can still just write and run yaml and it’ll work just fine.

      Genuinely curious what would people recommend for a home server that is less of a do it all yourself processes and more of a do some of it yourself processes.

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        TrueNAS. It’s free, has a larger app store than UNRAID and has a much more mature deployment of ZFS.

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          Neat had not heard of this thanks for sharing. Sounds like its much the same safe for free but maybe not as easy to mix and match drives. I had a bunch of random ones leftover from this and that.

          That being said if I ever have money for a full build I’ll probably try TrueNAS.

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    “must run as root” App.deb

    Yeah. That’s how you install ad-hoc packages where the author didn’t put them properly in a repo with signatures.

    But, as Debian has impaired validation anyway - it’s a package format thing - it’s not AS big a deal.

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      It says ‘run as root’, not installed using root privileges. You’d also need root privilege to dd an image onto a drive either.

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      i’ve talked waaay to much shit to anybody who listen about windows to ever be seen using it again, i’m gonna have to install in the dead of night when everybody is sleeping, black ops type shit