Before I made the switch, I did something similar to what you did. To enumerate my steps: 1 - Learned about Linux in general(I learn a lot at university) 2 - Picked a distro 3 - Adapted to the Linux workflow in Windows, for example using more terminal, updating packages via winget/chocolatey, using wsl etc. 4 - Used FOSS alternatives in Windows 5 - Made a list of all the programs I needed to find a replacement for that don’t have a Windows version to try out 6 - Made a list of things to try out, like themes, tiling windows, desktops, etc 7 - Live distro for a day 8 - Completely removed Windows from my life forever
Thanks for the list! Most points i already did and there are only two programs that not have an alternative, but i almost never use them. I will try to run them through Wine or something, and if it doesn’t work it would not be a big deal. Can’t wait to get rid of windows. I can’t remember why i left kubuntu behind and got back to windows in the first place.
I read that a lot, but my RTX4080 works quite well on linux. I’m running gnome with wayland on openSUSE tumbleweed. According to lemmy and reddit, that should be a disaster combination.
I used to have problems and visual glitches with text in flatpaks (like VS code, or Spotify, the text would be bugged), but as of the latest drivers that is fixed.
From my experience on Fedora, my advice is that after a new kernel installs, don’t restart immediately, give it a minute or two to build the nvidia drivers for that kernel. If you are signing them for secure boot i guess the recommended wait is 5 minutes.
I read this a lot as well, and I think for a time this was true, but in my experience with a 1070 and 1080ti, Ubuntu and Fedora worked fine with minor tinkering, pop_os and nobara work out of the box. Currently on nobara, and most apps and games work just as well if not a little better than on Windows. A mate of mine runs nobara with a 3080 and no issues there either.
For fun and learning. It’s just another tool to go with file level backup.
And the backup for this is 40mb and really fast, but backing up files even when compressed would be hundreds of GB, maybe terabytes, and then you’re paying for that amount of storage online somewhere, uploading for hours…
Picture this: you open and edit one of your documents and save it.
The filesystem promptly allocates some blocks and updates the inodes. Maybe the inode table changed, maybe not. Repeat for some other files. Now your “inode backup” has a completely different picture of what is going on on your disk. If you try to recover the disk using it, all you will achieve is further corruption of the filesystem.
For example once I had a bad cable, and it did a kinda sneaking silent damage. Let’s say 5 or 50 broken files every day. And only after some weeks I noticed some of them, and there was hardly a chance to identify them each day. And sometimes there was damage to the file system, too. It took a while find the root cause.
Today I use ZFS with redundancy and it does the recovery all by itself and my sleep is so much better :-)
“Proper backups” imply that you have multiple backups and a backup strategy. That could mean, for instance, that you would do a full backup, then an incremental/differential backup each week and keep one backup for each month. A bad cable would cause you trouble, no doubt, but the impact would be lessened by having multiple backups points spread over months.
Redundancy is not backup. Read that again.
Redundancy is important for system resilience, but backup is crucial for continuity. Every filesystem is subject to bugs and ZFS is not special. Here’s an article from a couple of days ago. If you’re comfortable with no backups just because you have redundancy, more power to you. I wouldn’t be.
Sure, all the work you do between the moment of the filesystem failure and the last backup is gone. There’s nothing that can be done to mitigate that fact, other that more frequent backups and/or a synchronized (mirror) system.
Backups are just a simple way to keep you from having to explain to your partner that you lost all the pictures and videos you took along the years.
It sounds like you've taken the appropriate precautions. I'm sure others will have better suggestions, but perhaps you can try running a VM for a week or so as if you've made the switch and take note of anything you feel you may be lacking.
May I point out that all a RAID1 does is sync the blocks between two drives. It won’t protect against writing something dumb that would mess up the filesystem, it will just dutifully sync it.
You should be able to back up ext data from a filesystem on a RAID array, unless I’m confused about what e2image actually does. Are you trying to use it on the underlying drive devices by any chance? You have to point it at the RAID device on top of them, something like /dev/md1 rather than /dev/sda1.
This sounds like a good extra backup to have but don’t let it lull you into a false sense of security. It may help recover from a very specific kind of mistake but the recovery may be very specific as well. It’s not file backup.
If this is a VM, video playback stutters do not surprise me one bit. There’s many layers between the video and the image you see on screen here and they’re not optimised for viewing fidelity. This is likely not due to Linux but because you’re running this inside a with an emulated GPU. GUIs in VMs usually suck.
Optional codecs won’t help for Youtube since they serve royalty-free codecs such as VP9 or AV1 most of the time rather than patent-encoumbered codecs such as H.264 and free codecs are always installed.
That would also not fix stutters, only videos not playing back at all (because there’d be no decoder that could).
If this is a VM, installing the Nvidia driver also won’t do anything because the machine has no access to your host’s GPU. Not that the nvidia driver would change anything about videos since no sane browser supports their proprietary crap driver, so it’s software decoding either way.
You should try this on real hardware. You technically don’t even need to install as most GUI distros have a graphical installer with Firefox etc. pre-installed that you can use to test this.
If you have an Nvidia GPU, I’d recommend you to try !pop_os.
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