First Experience with Proxmox

I’ve been using virt-manager for some time to spin up VMs, this works pretty well and I created some scripts to ssh and scp to the VM’s without having to worry about configuring DNS etc to avoid using ip addresses. I’ve seen references to Proxmox for some time and so decided to give it a go – Initially on a VM (yes I know… but just giving it a try)

Download and install from https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads was straightforward so won’t cover that here.

The end of the install gave an url to connect to logged in as root with the password set up in the install process. Clicking on Shell on the ui opened a

Using the flatpak version of neovim

As neovim is in active development with new features are added regularly, using an LTS Linux version means a long wait for the new features. For example ATOW Pop_OS! (based on Ubuntu 22.04) package manager provides version 0.6.1. Even Ubuntu 24.04 provides 0.9.5. Looking at the neovim.io they have an official flatpak version of the latest stable version – If you already have flatpak installed (it comes pre installed on Pop_OS!) this is simply installed using:

flatpak install io.neovim.nvim

And you can run it using

flatpak run io.neovim.nvim

If all you want to do it run it from the command line then you can create a link to the exported flatpak as follows (assuming the path ~/bin/ is in your path):

ln -s ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/io.neovim.nvim  ~/bin/nvim

If you installed the flatpak as root (not recommended) the command is:

ln -s /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/io.neovim.nvim /usr/bin/nvim

One caveat is that the flatpak version it cannot currently be used with sudo unless it has been installed in the root user’s workspace. flatpak’s are per user. Even installing using “sudo flatpak install io.neovim.nvim” will not work