Yeah, these are pretty solid advice, would say that you should be safe with patch version updates, like from 1.17.1 to 1.17.4
Should be able to jump from 1.17.4 to 2.0.1 and from 2.0.1 to 2.1.3, etc. going straight to the last patch of the next version, but should go one by one minor version, paying close attention to those versions that have breaking changes in the release notes. And always backup and test before each version jump.
This probably is the issue, when you download a script or binary from the internet it doesn't have execution permission, you would have to right click on folder to open in terminal (that way don't have to cd to it), and check permissions with ls -la if it doesn't have permission, change it with chmod
and then donate to the instance's admins because there are no VC's here ... yet.
The point of lemmy (as far as I understand) is that there will not be a central corpo entity controlling and enshittifiying it as a whole, if that does happen to the particular instance your account or community is, you have the freedom to jump to another one, and continue your life.
On the other hand if you enjoy lemmy you could show support/donate, either to the devs, a particular instance admins, or even a particular community moderators
In my mind it would be super useful, I could sync my photos when my PC is on and when is off rely on my local photos only since my main goal is having a backup of them.
You could do this perfectly with the docker version, so just curiosity here, why not user docker?
Is it because you don't want to install docker for only Immich? (you could also install other selfhosted server/apps as bonus),
would you be against snap? As someone already mentioned, there is a snap version.
If the important thing is having backups of your photos, there are alternative apps with different packaging formats.
You could make a request for flatpak, and see if other users also would like it, but you would have to wait for feedback from devs and understand if they don't have the resources or willingness to maintain it.
Am I crazy or it makes sense?
If I'm interested in a specific app, I see what packaging formats it has and see how to install it and try it out. Only if I'm having issues with it (that can't be solved), or can't run it on my specific distro with the available packaging formats, I try to suggest/request a different format.
As far as I know, the options are:
If these 3 checks fail, there is not much more you can do.
If it is the OS, you could try "systemd-analyze" and "systemd-analyze blame" on the terminal to see what is going on, you can post the output of blame here and maybe someone can pinpoint something strange, or you can search online how to speed up or disable certain elements from the list.
MSI Sword 15 here, with Intel + Nvidia, In my personal experience is runs almost without issues using Manjaro as a Distro (have not tried other distros on this specific machine).
Your experience could be different depending on your specific laptop model and how recent it is.
Keyboard lighting and fan on/off works without issues, the only 'Fn' key that does not work apart from the one for MSI windows software is the one to block the trackpad (and I just configured another keyboard shortcut for it).
~~Using Wayland, I can not use an external monitor connected to the HDMI port on the Nvidia card (No idea if it is fixable now, haven't looked on it recently), but with Xorg I can run an external monitor in the HDMI port and extra ones with a dongle on the USB-C (so far tried with 3 without issues)~~ Edit: I can use multiple monitors without issues on Wayland as of my last test.
Friendly distros recommended these days as far as I know are Mint and Zorin if looking for something Ubuntu or Debian Based, Apart from that there is Fedora or Arch based distros but may need a bit more knowledge and getting used to.
As far as I know, CasaOS (same as Cockpit) is installed on top of a default OS install, so you could always access the OS directly to install/configure things outside of it, if the need arises.
I would not say you would be held back by it, if it does what you need. And for what I can see online, you can install any docker container even if it's not on the default catalog of CasaOS, or access the OS.
If you want to grow your knowledge of how things work, or how to deploy services without CasaOS, you can always do so in parallel of using CasaOS, so I don't see where the issue could be.
Dislike: there is still no way to group communities into sub feeds, apart from subs, local, all. (and the work around some do of having multiple accounts seems silly to me)
What would you recommend that is not NixOS or a Bash script and can be used agnostic of distro?
This is not correct as pass uses GPG, and you can do symmetric encryption with it, it is just a different parameter in the command.
You can use a different password per file, or the same one
Having the ability to shut down the main instance of an app and run a secondary instance from backups without much hassle is the best feeling ever, I recently updated from Nextcloud v26 to v31, and having the ability to just go back to a working version if anything was wrong saved me from so much stress.