I've always liked Fedora or its various derivatives like Bazzite. They seem to have defaults that make sense, and fairly up to date software.
I also find dnf on Fedora to be a bit nicer and more streamlined compared to apt, and I've heard it's significantly easier to package software for dnf as well.
Yep, without a restart anything running will be the old version until the process is restarted (or the whole system is).
You'll also probably want to do a flatpak update along with dnf upgrade
NP! That's how I do it on proxmox, I'll start the VM every so often and update it. Only takes a few seconds to clone so it's nice and quick to do.
Simple method is just keep a ready to go VM and clone it.
What's the difference vs using a governer with scaling like ondemand?
Yeah it makes sense that they're good at finding similar things.
Not super reliable, one road near me is 25mph and google says it's 65mph.
That is fair, I suppose being able to click and run stuff like Appimages has less security issues because in theory they are isolated? But don't the appimages get to decide their own permissions?
I really don't understand why it's not more streamlined, it should work like an exe where I just click it and it installs and handles dependencies automatically.
What does compiling your own kernel do that lets anticheat be bypassed?
It's not because they're dumb, it's because it's easy and because it's the OS a computer comes with (with the tiny exception of some systems where you can choose linux).
I back up all the directories and docker-compose files using Restic (via Backrest) stored on Backblaze B2, and also the whole Docker LXC via Proxmox's backup function to a local HDD.
There's a chance some databases could be backed up in an unusable state, but I keep like 30-50 snapshots going back months, so I figure if the latest one has a bad DB backup, I could go back another day and try that one.
I also don't really have irreplaceable data stored in DBs, stuff like Immich has data in a DB that would be annoying to lose, but the photos themselves are just on the filesystem.
For testing Restic I pull a backup and just go through and check some of the important files.
Proxmox backup is really easy to test, as it just restores the whole LXC with a new ID and IP that I can check.