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

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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] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Setting up Alpine or Mutt with multiple SMTP accounts is an exercise in frustration.

[–] [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

Getting Keycloak and Headscale working together.

But I did it after three weeks.

I captured my efforts in a set of interdependent Ansible roles so I never have to do it again.

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

Nextcloud requiring me to set the actual domain when I just want to run it locally was pretty frustrating

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

I don't know, I had Nextcloud for a year on a local network and I didn't have to set an address. The bigger problem was that some applications do not accept self-signed SSL, so I had to change their code, and I don't really know how to code for Android...

[–] [email protected] 3 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?

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

Skyrim mods.

Btw, anyone got the new reshade working on wine?

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

For skyrim, I'm using vortex in lutris, and install the mods this way. This requires a more bit of actions but works fine.

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

Wabbajack still doesn't work in wine?

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

it's embarrassing but for me it's thinkfan. Instead I wrote my own solution in bash.

[–] [email protected] 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

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

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

Anything to do with dns

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

fucking jellyfin still doesnt reliably work for me. ugh.

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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.

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

I was trying to get wine to run something the other day and couldn't figure it out.

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