Is there something wrong with Gitlab?
Not inherently—GitLab works fine, but it’s corporate-owned, collects some data, and isn’t fully decentralized. If your goal is privacy, open source, and independence from Big Tech, that’s why people look for alternatives like Gitea, Forgejo, or federated solutions.
Not just storage costs — mainly for privacy, avoiding Big Tech control, and having an open-source, decentralized alternative where I’m not tracked or subjected to ads.
I self-host forgejo, it’s one of the easiest systems I self-host.
But which features other than a plain git repo are you looking for? That will mostly determine your options. There are tons of git repos, and even just a plain git repo on a server with an ssh tunnel is enough if you don’t need anything beyond that.
My main goal is to stay independent from big tech and have full control over my data, but I’m still new to programming (2/8 in Software Engineering).
Fun fact: you didn’t have to reinstall; you can actually boot up a live usb and chroot into your install to fix things.
That’s what I tried! But I couldn’t do it! I should have asked for help.
I completely forgot that grub could be themed… brb
lol
Nicely done. Im always too scared to break my machine by messing with grub. :)
Yeah, the first time I tried it (alone) I broke GRUB and had to reinstall Arch (but I have backups of everything and my dotfiles). Then I followed the tutorial and everything worked out!
I’m not a git expert. If we Primarily use private repos and use gitea why would this be good ? I presume it’s only good for public repos right?
Even with private repos, it can be useful for backups, CI/CD, or local mirrors. If you just care about public exposure, then yes, it’s mainly for public repos.
I’m sure you could have fixed it with GRUB Rescue. It’s slightly annoying, but it isn’t that hard to get booted from that. Once you get it to boot then you can fix things.
Don’t give up so quickly next time. It’s useful to learn how to fix it instead of just accepting failure and resetting everything.
Yeah, man, I even went into live mode to try to undo what I did, but I still couldn’t manage it (I should have looked for help). But since I have backups of everything and my dotfiles, I didn’t worry too much (though I was pissed, I won’t lie).
I have my system select the default option really quickly, so I don’t see GRUB. This makes it tempting to not do that, but I think I’ll accept the convenient option instead of the cool option still.
On mine, it’s already set to boot into Arch automatically. It shows in the bottom right corner: “Joining world in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.” It’s really cool, man!
That is kind of awesome.
I wish Debian’s default Grub theme was less ugly; I know I could change it (and I have on other installs, but I’m quite lazy about theming these days. Part of it is I have a laptop that I rely on for college and don’t want to risk any theme glitches, so I keep its Debian install as vanilla as possible.
The first time I tried doing it (alone, without watching the video), I broke the system ;(, had a boot problem, so I had to reinstall everything again.
Yes, codeberg, and it’s going to be decentralized soon when forgejo implements federation
amazing!
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interesting man, i’ll try!
OMG, I didn’t know this site, thanks man!
No, because the people hiring and the people working with you will be using GitHub.
maybe not! Life isn’t just work.
Yes, the main reason I’d want federation is for public access and decentralization. For personal or small-team use, running it privately is enough.