I've been running Gentoo as my desktop's main operating system for about a year now, so I consider myself something of an expert. At least, I have enough experience to have an informed opinion on the distro, and it's pretty mixed. I'll start by saying I moved from NixOS to Gentoo, pretty much swinging from two ends of the spectrum when it comes to Linux distribution management strategies. On one end you have your entire setup from installed packages to those packages' configurations defined i...| arch.dog
In my continuining quest to have my homelab act as an actual experimentation labratory, I decided to turn my single instanced PostgreSQL server into a cluster with failover. I have a number of machines in my homelab infrastructure at this point that can run compute workloads, with varying degrees of reliability (most of this comes from using old SSDs as the boot disks, which is something I'm replacing), and it made sense to leverage them so I can take one out of service to work on / do scienc...| gabrielsimmer.com