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I'm a Windows guy since forever and I recently got into selfhosting. So far its a blast! Are posts about that welcome here?

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access

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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't see why not.

[–] richardwonka@slrpnk.net -2 points 2 weeks ago

That’s just silly.

Self hosting is all about Digital Autonomy; that’s just not possible with a windows OS.

Apart from that it would just make your life harder, as the vast majority of documentation and tutorials and helper scripts are based on some linux like OS.

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