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I don't think the issue is listening to music, but installing potentially dodgy software that could bring a virus into the corporate network. Hence most businesses handling sensitive information try to protect their systems and networks by preventing unauthorised installation of software.

🤮 I hate gui config! Way too much hassle. Give me cli and a config file anyday! I love being able to just ssh into my server anytime from anywhere and fix, modify or install and setup something.

The key to not being overwhelmed is manageable deployment. Only setup one service at a time, get it working, safe and reliable before switching to actually using full time, then once certain it's solid, implement the next tool or deployment.

My servers have almost no breakages or issues. They run 24/7/365 and are solid and reliable. Only time anything breaks is either an update or new service deployment, but they are just user error by me and not the servers fault.

Although I don't work in IT so maybe the small bits of maintenance I actually do feel less to me?

I have 26 containers running, plus a fair few bare metal services. Plus I do a bit of software dev as a hobby.

I have currently got 23 on my n97 mini pc and 3 on my raspberry pi 4, making 26 in total.

I have no issues managing these. I use docker compose for everything and have about 10 compose.yml files for the 23 containers.

The biggest issue you will find is getting gtk and qt apps to look, feel and integrate together. There is nothing wrong with mixing and matching, it can just get a bit complicated. Lots of people don't even use a de, and just build their own gui with a compositor or window manager, plus all the tools and apps they want to include to make it functional. I haven't used a de in over a decade on my main desktop.

The pi 1, 2 and zero all run on 1.5a power supplies perfectly fine. I have 2 running 24/7/365. So max power is 15w. They don't draw anywhere near that when idle, but mine are rarely idle.

For me I really want to move over to a Linux phone in the next few years. My current phone doesn't support any custom ROMs and I'm not willing to risk a gsi build or similar to get lineage working. I think my current Motorola edge 40 neo will last me another 2 years maybe, but once it starts showing signs of death, I will be buying something either pre-installed with Linux or offers a straight forward enough path to flash Linux of some sort. I am happy with a clean experience with a solid web browser and no other apps. As another option, being able to install android apps would be good, but I don't want that if it compromises the os.