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What is your go-to Linux distro and why?
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Linux Mint is my go-to. It's stable and if I want the latest update of anything, I use one of these:
I think people underestimate how useful docker can be for running various stuff, I have few semi-permanent containers for some software and it works great.
As a Linux noob: what's Docker?
It's a containers system. It's similar to a virtual machine, you can run so-called images, which are a copy of the virtual machine that are hosted on the internet. For example, to run a mysql server:
docker run -it --name mysql -p 3306:3306 mysql:8. This will run an interactive container (-it) called mysql (--name mysql) which will run the version 8 of mysql (the image name and version,mysql:8) which will forward the port 3306 from container to the port 3306 on your host PC (-p 3306:3306). You can have multiple containers, so for example multiple mysql versions (they can't have the same host port if they're running at the same time).