@Pete-S said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@stacksofplates said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@Pete-S said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@stacksofplates said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@Pete-S said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

I'm looking at buying this Asus ZenBook, but find no resources talking about what challenges there are getting Linux, hopefully Ubuntu, running on there. Generally the ZenBooks rank really well for use with Linux, but this one has this weird touch pad that worries me. Anyone know anything about it?

Sorry, I don't. But why even bother with something weird like this? Why not buy something you know for sure works?

What product would that be? Lenovo Carbon X1 yes, at much higher price.

XPS. They ship with Linux.

Scott said he wanted a real GPU, not Intel's CPU integrated, for video editing.

XPS is small and neat (and an ergonomic disaster to work with IMHO) but doesn't have a real GPU.

Idk why you're assuming I meant a 13. The 15s have an NVIDIA card, same with the latitudes which also will ship with Linux. I'm not 100% sure if the XPS 15 ships with Linux I'd have to double check ( the latitudes will) but it works great on them. XPS also has a 17" model now.

Sorry, I was just assuming 13" since 13-14" was what Scott wanted at first.

The 15 is really like 14", the 13 is like 12". Because of the infinity display the body sizes are smaller than others.

@Pete-S said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@stacksofplates said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@Pete-S said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

I'm looking at buying this Asus ZenBook, but find no resources talking about what challenges there are getting Linux, hopefully Ubuntu, running on there. Generally the ZenBooks rank really well for use with Linux, but this one has this weird touch pad that worries me. Anyone know anything about it?

Sorry, I don't. But why even bother with something weird like this? Why not buy something you know for sure works?

What product would that be? Lenovo Carbon X1 yes, at much higher price.

XPS. They ship with Linux.

Scott said he wanted a real GPU, not Intel's CPU integrated, for video editing.

XPS is small and neat (and an ergonomic disaster to work with IMHO) but doesn't have a real GPU.

Idk why you're assuming I meant a 13. The 15s have an NVIDIA card, same with the latitudes which also will ship with Linux. I'm not 100% sure if the XPS 15 ships with Linux I'd have to double check ( the latitudes will) but it works great on them. XPS also has a 17" model now.

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@Pete-S said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

I'm looking at buying this Asus ZenBook, but find no resources talking about what challenges there are getting Linux, hopefully Ubuntu, running on there. Generally the ZenBooks rank really well for use with Linux, but this one has this weird touch pad that worries me. Anyone know anything about it?

Sorry, I don't. But why even bother with something weird like this? Why not buy something you know for sure works?

What product would that be? Lenovo Carbon X1 yes, at much higher price.

XPS. They ship with Linux.

@pmoncho said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:

@scottalanmiller

What would be the sense of purchasing a solid open source project like SaltStack?
Being OS, VMware can add their own developers to the project and still integrate it with their products without the cost of purchasing the company.

I think they're just trying to stay relevant. Like with Harbor, Tanzu, etc.

@AdamF said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:

So this is now a super old post, but still relevant. I have been using Saltstack to manage my servers. I don't have any downsides to this so far, but I like to re-evaluate every so often. I see that Ansible open sourced (a couple years ago) their Tower GUI (AWX) That's attractive to me.

What are the current opinions on server management in regards to Ansible vs Saltstack.

I believe AWX is much better these days. I still don't like it as much as just using Jenkins. Jenkins gives you a ton of flexibility while still giving you an interface to take inputs or run jobs.

@Pete-S said in Formatting text instructions into html?:

@stacksofplates said in Formatting text instructions into html?:

I prefer asciidoc to markdown. Asciidoc has actual standards for things. Antora will build a pretty nice site with your projects written in Asciidoc as well.

Ifyou just want a single page, Asciidoctor will build a site as well.

I had a look at asciidoc and it looks very nice, especially for larger documentation projects.

I have a couple projects in an Antora site. We had a ton more at work, but I can't show it on here. You can include multiple projects and have them appear at the bottom left, each with versions. We used it so that teams could create documentation for tools (or really whatever they wanted) and then that documentation could be scraped and included in the central site. I just have a few projects included in my site, but Antora makes that pretty easy.

Here's my very bad/basic example.

https://docs.hooks.technology

I prefer asciidoc to markdown. Asciidoc has actual standards for things. Antora will build a pretty nice site with your projects written in Asciidoc as well.

Ifyou just want a single page, Asciidoctor will build a site as well.

Our team has one of these.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/conferencecam-connect

Worked decently well.

It was mostly a workaround to when we couldn't get a room that had one of the 65inch cisco meeting setups.

@marcinozga said in Microservices - any real world examples?:

@stacksofplates said in Microservices - any real world examples?:

@marcinozga said in Microservices - any real world examples?:

@stacksofplates said in Microservices - any real world examples?:

Bitwarden isn't a microservice based architecture. It's just a service based. If you're using a shared database, it's not a microservice. Microservices each have their own database and then either through your API gateway, service discovery, message broker, etc each service queries the other service for the data it needs.

That’s a false statement. Microservices can share single database. In perfect world each microservice would have each own, but we’re far from perfect.

No it's not. That's what defines it as a microservice. If the services all talk to the same database, it's just a service based architecture.

No, because there’s really no single definition of microservices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices

Also https://microservices.io/patterns/data/shared-database.html

That doesn't really show anything. From that same site:

Again, if they aren't loosely coupled, all encompassing services they aren't microservices. Just as wikipedia says, the consensus is they are loosely coupled. If they are tied to a single database they are by definition, not loosely coupled.

There's kind of a push now to move back towards monoliths (or other more sensible designs). Mainly because of the complexity and performance loss.

As with anything a ton of places heard microservices were the future, jumped on, and started using it without actually researching. It's good for some use cases, and not for a lot of them.