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Love this guy lol
He looks familiar but I just can put his name to a face
Noble Knight Adventures. I think his name is William papillon?
William Papadin. Anyway, as long as I'm looking up his channel to share it, here's my other favorite video of his.
That is a good one! I like the whole BWILA saga. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGnUvwbPIg
Damn, I tux rolled a masterpiece today
William ~~Paladin~~ Papadin on YouTube.
Edit: autocorrect strikes again.
Closer than I was, friend!
Man, I had stuff to do today. Now I'm just going to end up watching this over and over for 7 hours.
Finally some joy in this world. Thanks.
Thanks, I love it
Greatest video ever
Recovered a broken Kubuntu install I tried switching to that got broken on a missconfig'd update, half broken Linux install and it was still better and more featured than my W11... I am hopeful that I can finally make the switch permanent
I recommend making your /home a separate partition. It makes switching distros easier and also allows you to not encrypt your installation and only your own files, saving you from the headache in the case LUKS doesn't work properly anymore.
How much storage space do you allocate for the OS?
Not OC - I read a recommendation of 20GB on reddit, only to get to the limit very fast and repartition. From my experience, 40GB is the magic number.
Honestly, I'd argue it depends on the use case. A lightweight distro meant for basic tasks will never consume as much as a gaming one. Factoring in that your snapshots will naturally grow over time (and thus disk space) will mean that repartitioning, and getting bigger hard drives, is always a thing.
I'd still just trust the general installation guide, if it offers automatic partition allocation. Just only do partitions for /boot, / and /home, I've never found much use for /var /log and such as a separate partition, at least as a home user.
And when in doubt: use LVM with ext4 for dynamic partitions. BTRFS has a similar feature, but it's still experimental, and thus potentially unstable.
I allocated 75gb on my 1tb drive to Fedora and most of the rest (~900gb) to my /home. After over 2 years and a few upgrades (Workstation 37-42 IIRC) itβs sitting at 64.2% used.
The greybeards I learned from many moons ago liked to split /var, /bin, and /tmp from / as well as /home. I havenβt gone that far in some time though. As always YMMV.
I thought a bunch of config files and ~~Biden~~ hidden folders and stuff are in /home. If I switch, will I not end up with a bunch of orphaned files from (in my case) Debian just cluttering the place up? I did the separate partition thing as is so often recommended.
Yeah, that's a risk. However you'll always risk having leftovers from programs, even when continuing to use an OS, simply because you might switch programs, the developer rethinks where they store the config files, etc..
In most cases these files are relatively small and won't be very noticeable in the long run. However if that still bothers you have no other choice but to cleanup your config files regardless.
Also, those config files are generally only for your own user, i.e. user-related configurations, not program-dependent ones. System configs are generally stored outside the user profiles.
Thank you for the reply. I may attempt to muster up the necessary bracket to attempt it!
Dude, Microsoft has gotten really bad lately. I upgrades the SSD in a surface pro X Iβm giving to a friend. I went to use Microsoft own recovery image for this device and it doesnβt fucking work. It literally kept erasing the flash drive when you tried to boot off it. You canβt use the generic win11 ARM image either because itβs a surface product and they canβt complete the install that way.
I ended up having to clone the old SSD with DD into the new one, move the recovery partition to the end with gparted, then use windows reset my pc thing.
The ability to upgrade the SSD was an advertised feature of the surface pro X. You literally cannot use the product they way they sell it to you.
I use Mac with no problems. I use Linux with the occasional fixable hiccup. I want to punch the pope in the fucking throat when I use windows.
Indeed, forced AI, in OS ads, forced data collection, straight up screen spying, zero customization, and now my audio does whatever it wants, all for a paid "premium" product? I'm out, I'll gladly deal with a half broken Linux install over MS at this point
The waifu pillow freaking sent me. Haha.
What's this from?
Nobleknight Adventures (I believe this is the entire short, but there are others on the channel.)
https://youtube.com/shorts/e_Z7st2AeaM
Thanks I couldn't tell what was edited that anime pillow threw me off
My average dream as linux user of 8 years.
Ahhh noble knight glad to have you aboard!
First I needed thigh high socks, and now an Anime pillow? What else do I need...
Donβt worry, Iβm getting my minusforum AI X1 in an hour and tonight is OpenSuse Thumbleweed (Sway WM) installation night!
I even have popcorn and sweets to pass the time during downloads and zypper installs, canβt wait π€
But I don't want cookies. I actively avoid them! (but I did move over to Pop!_OS)
I spent ages trying to find this again because it makes me happy.