I game on Debian; it is absolutely up to the task.

It is called the universal operating system for a reason.

this is scientific data.

Funfact, I recently did a scrub on my offline backup drive of my work PC. It correct around 250 errors. I wouldn’t have noticed any problems if I had used ext4 instead of btrfs.

I agree with both of you. Somehow I don’t worry about the drive in my laptop but 80 TB of scientific data is another thing, and I want to make sure it is the same data when it arrives.

That sounds scary and like I need at least btrfs if I need to ship the data instead of using rsync.

Yes, using rsync between the two servers would be the best option. I guess, despite I already have the drives. On my end I could provide the access and arrange proper security with VPN, but at the target there are still too many question marks and I cannot currently count on some basic Linux knowledge there.

For a previous transfer of much less data I had to write a PS script that handled the transfer. It was very slow.

So, I am actually dealing with another problem: Can I get enough information from the non-tech persons to provide the best and easiest solution for them.

Thx so far all the ideas from all of you.

Thx.

The disks are only meant for transport at this time.

The more I think about it, the more I lean towards btrfs, because even if they don’t use btrfs on the target server the copying process will do the error correction based on the checksums in btrfs itself. I hope btrfs does it the same way as ZFS in this scenario.

Your assumption is correct. These are many files of medium size: sat raster images.

The more I think about it, the more I lean towards btrfs, because even if they don’t use btrfs on the target server the copying process will do the error correction based on the checksums in btrfs itself.

I wasn’t involved in the decision process to buy those drives and enclosures. Now they act as a backup, too.

More like 8x 10 TB drives.

It is scientific data that needs to be available on another server.

Regarding 2: That is actually part of my job. 95% Windows, the rest is MacOS and maybe 3 to 5 Linux users (myself excluded).

I wonder what must happen to roll out more Linux in the public sector. There is still software required by scientist of various professions that need a tool only available for Windows. Installing a VM is not an option; too complicated for the average user.

And there is Windows software not compatible with Windows 11. Here is a small chance to use wine, but will the setup be practical and installable by the users themselves? I doubt it and it will put more work on the admins.

I hope at least, that Linux maintenance will be smoother despite the need for compatibility for older Windows software in the future.

same, there is only one reason to get Ubuntu over Debian, if you have a Nvidia gpu, they make it easy to just work.

But, if you don’t need cuda, I recommend an AMD gpu and stick with Debian or Fedora. It is trouble free.

PS: I will try immutable distros some day, pinky promise ^^

gnome-remote-desktop exists, but it isn’t as mature as xrdp. I am on Debian stable anyway and wait until it is ready. Locally I prefer Wayland and for RDP xrdp is still the better option in my opinion.

This is very nice. So far, the amount of motion on a Gnome desktop isn’t too much for me, but it is on the default iOS behaviour. I am glad that these options exists!

At home, I like that this is happening, but at work X11 is still needed for xrdp. I have tried gnome-remote-desktop, but it isn’t on par with it. I could not get it to work reliably on Debian 13.

Maybe, with the next stable release it will be ready and the X11-drop will be a non-issue.

I am just guessing: Could sector size have something to do with it?

And no, I wouldn’t trust it.

gnome-software, it can also tell you whether the app you want to install is available natively.

Yes, same here. That is why I read on Lemmy to inform myself in advance and reduce the amount of tabs.

I am in the 5 to 20 tab range depending on the solution I am searching for. At around 5 I usually use LLM to help me and cross-check with more searches. If it is longterm, I subscribe to related communities on Lemmy and interesting podcasts.

Regarding your question to virtualize Windows: Use virt-manager if it is just for you and Proxmox if you want to provide virtualized services. Certainly, you can use Proxmox just for yourself, it even works with nested virtualization if you want to learn things before commiting to additional hardware. I am there right now. Many more tabs will be opened to learn about Proxmox, I am sure.

I recommend Debian stable or Fedora if your aim is to get things done. NixOS is maybe a thing you can try out and learn about in a VM on Proxmox or with virt-manager.

Nice to read that more and more people are using btrfs on LUKS. I went for the debootstrap route from within a booted debian live iso to omit the debian installer entirely.