Post #3395718

2026-06-14 12:28 UTC

Many of us started running Windows Server and endpoints, but in my case, the cost and substandard tools turned me away. I was running A DLNA server and using WDS (yes, very overkill for home, but fun to learn for work), but then I found TrueNAS (then called FreeNAS) running on BSD. I now run a simple share from there and Kodi on my (Linux and Android) user endpoints. I don't bother with imaging anymore, and use `dd` for backups to my NAS. My Firewall runs OPNSense (BSD) and I run OpenWRT on two TrendNet WAPs. I'll never go back to MS. It's just not a welcoming platform from my perspective. Don't even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry "redistributables" constantly required by every tool you try to use.

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@Serinus@lemmy.world 2026-06-14 13:08

dotnet is pretty great, runs great on Linux, and you can ship your executable without a need for an external framework if you want. Dotnet is also open source, a strongly typed language, a large standard library so it doesn't have the problems of npm, has great performance and is all around the best language out there imo. Use rust if you need to be closer to the metal, but that's rare.

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@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2026-06-15 13:33

> Don’t even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry “redistributables” constantly required by every tool you try to use. It's absurd but Linux is far worse. Instead of addressing library bloat and versioning we have Docker which just throws EVERYTHING into a bag and makes you download an entire OS environment space to run one app.

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