Windows can have the same problem when you run out of space, but it will at least give you a helpful UI to clean everything up.

Its not clear to me either why it appeared as if there was free space, but it might be the btrfs/df incompatibility the other poster raised.

Good luck, and reach out if there are further issues :)

The dnf clean deleted old downloaded packages. You will probably hit disk space issues again soon, so I suggest you resize your root partition at some stage if possible. Use a gparted livecd.

sudo dnf clean?

Otherwise you’ll need to start cleaning out software your not using and/or resizing your disk partitions.

Also, check the size of the files in the /var/log directory, you may be able to shrink or delete them.

Woah woah woah, slow down. I just want cd, I dont think I need to bash any fishes.

I’m looking for a distro with good cd support, what should I use?

Its likely to be a slow rollout thing. I havent either for what its worth.

I did have a couple of videos fail to play, but they worked on refresh so I assume that was unrelated.

Perhaps the OP means that when they open nautilus in the host it crashes virtualbox? It could be ram usage climbing up and the OOM killer taking out virtualbox?

Write an alias/function to do it and add to your bashrc.

function nanox() {
    nano "$1"
    chmod +x "$1"
}

Probably backwards compatibility with existing scripts.

I think you are missing the most critical features, stability and support. You need whatever distro you pick to be solid. No one cares about the file system or whether it is immutable or not, your users need the computer to work when they use it, and nothing else matters.

You also need to be confident you can update and upgrade safely and easily, any risk of a broken update will make your life a misery when that happens.

Kickstart support, or some form of automated deployment will also be extremely valuable so that you can easily redeploy broken boxes with minimal effort. And some form of remote config/admin will also be extremely valuable. You dont want to have to do updates manually one at a time.

I would pick a general purpose commercially backed OS, so that if you need it later, you can pay for support if there is a problem. And you need to write some basic usage guides, because no matter which distro you pick, if its not Windows, your users will complain when they cant do X the same way it works on Windows.

I use Arch, but it probably is a completely wrong distro for a school computer lab. One botched update/upgrade and the entire lab is broken. There is also no kickstart support, so deploying lab full of machines will be a very manual process.

Hopefully with no exclusivity nonsense like the Microsoft+Qualcomm deal from the ARM surface era.

Communication platforms are going to be abused by organised crime, pedofiles and all kinds of unsavoury people. KYC rules mean that if a platform finds that kind of content, they can report it to the appropriate authorities.

I dont know whether its by a law, or something else, but even if you self host its a good idea to know who your users are and what they are doing.

Self host it. Their hosted version has KYC requirements, same as Zoom etc. The self-hosted version has none of that.

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This is my setup if you are interested: https://cameroncros.github.io/wifi-condom.html

Yeah, forums or wikis for long term data, chat for ephemeral data. Just never confluence :D

Could chat histories get transitioned from Freenode onwards? Because that is the major issue I see with using Discord, projects often use chat history as a “wiki” of sorts. If you did the same thing on IRC, wouldn’t you be equally SOL? I dont think switching the protocol is the problem, its leaving behind the historical data?

You’ve come full circle. Of course there are hosting providers everywhere, but there are no guarentees that they will still exist in the future. And if your not selfhosting, then you have to pay someone to host it for you, whereas Discord and Github are free.

And a small subsection of the “dont use discord” crowd are equally against using Github for many of the same reasons.

To be clear, I am completely okay with Discord, Github etc for foss projects.

Very true, but self-hosting isn’t free either, so there are maintenance/moderation/etc costs that take away time from the project. Small projects often just cant justify selfhosting.

But if your service is hosted by a third party, you really do want to be sure they will be around in the near future. And its not just chat that this applies to, git hosting, web hosting, ci/cd etc.