Usb is weird, it works for external drives to put or retrieve the odd file from an external HDD, but feature creep made it unusable for VMs unless you tweak it to hell and back.

All words from any it admin have weight, that is not what I meant.

Its just that init scripts and weird boot requirements are really crap to manage at scale and my job, like many others became a lot easier with systemd, that is why almost everyone uses it now. In my experience those that complain either never encountered these issues because they never scaled enough and like to use what they were used to, or prefer to write a script over a config file and make this a religious issue for some reason.

Ok I see. Without any intention to sound offensive, 5 servers is not enough to really see the pro cons of either init system. People handling 50 times those numbers encounter issues where it starts to matter, and those people tend to claim that, while it ain’t perfect, it is a lot better than any alternative

I always go arch for stuff that needs the new shit, and debian for stuff that should run stable. Those nix bazzite tubleweed thingies are nice, but too niche, if you have a problem the small communities are less probable to have it as well and good luck finding solutions

He is not that bad, the issue is that, as all foss devs, he is not interested in solving problems he does not feel like are important.

The problem is, he disapproves when resources are allocated in his project to those problems and one main area he is not a fan of is support for legacy stuff.

It just happens that legacy stuff is the majority of the industry, as production environment of half the globe needs to run legacy software and a lot of it on legacy hardware

And they are all playtoys, unused in production by anyone serious for a reason.

Excuse me but wtf? How many machines do you manage?

Windows users used to buy crap to have a functioning system unfortunately dont’t know that there is no need for this in linuxland

Then live life and love without emojis, we did fine without for most of history <3

Try using a feature complete browser

Try using a distro that is less ultra optimized for gaming on modern hardware. You have a legacy system, try something like debian or arch

I really hope not

Honestly the wiki is excellent, I do recommend to dive in head first with the install guide

Thunderbird

It is bot the most feature rich and the most annoying thing, but it works

The issue is that it is simply not built with reliability as a high priority so probably some hardware component shits itself too much after a while.There is a reason every reasonable company that needs a server to run reliably in production uses something orders of magnitude more expensive than a rpi.

You lucked out with your previous experiences, but many others did not, or the industry would not pay the price of a rpi a month to run a machine with the specs of a rpi.

That said, if you don’t need the reliability some easy hacks like a reboot cronjob or systemd timer, or trying to turn off unneeded services or peripherals could give you 90% of an industrial server’s reliability