I’m currently daily driving Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I didn’t think GNOME would be all my thing, but it’s really intuitive and has just enough options to satisfy all my desires (okay, I needed the gesture improvements extension for some of them).
It’s great to see GNOME focusing on what really matters. I think because they keep it simple to the user, they have more time to focus on important but harder to implement features rather than focusing on heavy customization (I love KDE too, don’t worry) But now I want to switch to Fedora or something bleeding edge, because of GNOME.
Booted to live and used gparted. had to fiddle with un-encrypting/re-encrypting the partitions in order to move everything around correctly, but everything was successful.
nothing ended up needing to be updated in boot. systemd-boot is so basic that so long as the uuids don’t change, then it don’t care.
in many cases you could simply move the directory that is taking too much space to different directory then either make softlink or if that didnt work you can use mount --bind
for example if directory /var/cach/mygame is too big, move my game to /mnt/part2/mygames
then either do ln -s /mnt/part2/mygames /var/cach/ or mount --bind /mnt/part2/mygames /var/cach/mygames
the miunt option is not permanent so if it works, u will need to add it to /etc/fstab to make it permenent
I think one of the smallest yet fully up-to-date distros around is Alpine Linux.
It might not be a perfect desktop because of Musl incompatibilities but hey, it has a ton of apps in the repos, if your usecase it’s simple it might be enough.
Remember to make sure that all the boot configs are updated correctly after the resize. It could happen that your boot manager does not find the partition to unlock after a resize
Thanks. That does not not really address my question but I certainly share your view as to not be married to a brand. My personal history and this post question are actually going that route.
Highly recommend using lvm in the future. You can undersize your partitions and when whichever one you need more space on it’s easy to grow. Also really easy to live migrate to other drives as needed. Good luck.
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