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atzanteol, (edited ) to linux in Filesystem mirroring: best backup tool?

rsync is ubiquitous and the standard for this type of job.

rsync -rav --delete --progress --exclude=ignore_dir source-dir user@host:remote_dir

SSH is used to connect. Ownership, symlinks, etc. are preserved. Add more “excludes” to filter out more directories. Do your first run without " delete" to make sure things are going where you want.

If you want “backups” I would suggest something more sophisticated. But for just cloning this is the way.

atzanteol, to asklemmy in Getting Over a Breakup

With the caveat that many of these things should be done in moderation. Abusing drugs and alcohol will make things worse.

atzanteol, (edited ) to linux in Easy way to try out a bunch of different DEs?

Not sure about others but in PopOS (and I assume Ubuntu) it’s pretty simple. Probably easy with most distros.


<span style="color:#323232;">apt install gnome-desktop
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install kde-standard
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install xubuntu-desktop
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install cinnamon-desktop-environment
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
</span><span style="color:#323232;">etc.
</span>
atzanteol, (edited ) to linux in New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?

the “year of the Linux computer” will never happen.

It won’t, that’s fine. People who don’t want to lean anything about computers use iOS and Android now. And that’s fine. I never want Linux distros to become like that.

atzanteol, to linux in KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future

Nate Graham acknowledges current gaps in Wayland support but on the matter of “Wayland breaks everything” isn’t really the right perspective

That’s rather disingenuous. It’s meant to be a replacement for X11. So it does break things.

atzanteol, to linux in Looking for input regarding finding an IDE (spoilers: involves Emacs and Vim)

Modal editors were neat when required, but then we got full keyboards and control keys.

Have you ever seen old Unix keyboards?

atzanteol, to memes in Vegan food: The west vs India

There’s actually a lot of plant based meat that are chemical / preservative free

Literally everything in this sentence is wrong.

atzanteol, (edited ) to linux in What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

Same! I’m on Ubuntu and Pop these days but I fondly remember my old distcc build cluster…

Portage is still far and away my favorite package manager.

atzanteol, to linux in "Help me choose my first distro" and other questions for beginners

And “don’t use Ubuntu because something something management”?

atzanteol, to linux in What has been your experience with Flatpak?

Mixed bag…

It’s only really an option for GUI applications which I intend to launch from a GUI which is a real turn-off as a long-time CLI user. I often want to run something like gimp file.ext from the CLI but can’t (easily) with a flatpak.

I also find the permission system gets in the way quite frequently as well. Like I was using some graphics program from a flatpak (I forget which - rawtherapee or maybe digikam) and it could only see certain directories. I get the security restrictions but it was a bit of hoop-jumping to try to figure out how to get that to stop, and in the end I just installed the snap…

atzanteol, to linux in Could we add "Distrochooser" to the sidebar?

At first I was with this but the first set of questions is so stupid that I can’t see that being a good idea.

Somebody just code up a bot that picks a random mainstream distro everytime somebody asks “what distro should I use?”

atzanteol, to linux in Steam not launching games - no idea what to do [Solved]

You can install vulkan-tools (ubuntu package name - not sure if it’s the same for your distro) and running vkcube. It’s a simple vulkan app that will display a rotating cube using vulkan. It will also spit out the GPU that it’s running on.

If it reports your nvidia card and the cube looks good then your drivers may be fine and the issue is with Steam and/or this application specifically. If not then there’s an issue with your drivers.

Occasionally when I’ve had a kernel update or something the nvidia drivers have gotten borked. Removing, re-installing, and rebooting has helped. Something like this:


<span style="color:#323232;">apt purge nvidia-driver-*
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install nvidia-driver-535
</span><span style="color:#323232;">reboot
</span>
atzanteol, to linux in Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust

If it weren’t “written in rust” nobody would give a shit.

atzanteol, to linux in Upgrade vs Reinstall

Yeah, my first thought was “this is doing containers the hard way”.

lxc and docker are your friends.

atzanteol, to linux in Looking for input regarding finding an IDE (spoilers: involves Emacs and Vim)

As a long-time Vi user I would highly recommend giving it a shot for a solid month to see if it clicks for you. It’s genuinely an excellent way to edit text beyond “just typing words” - it’s a huge productivity boost once you’re competent with even some of the basic commands. There are just soo many combineable short-cuts at your fingertips that once you get a few of them under your belt you’ll go nuts without them. And the simple macros you can write can allow you to do mass manipulation of multiple lines in ways that are just so simple (e.g. “add quotes around every line and a comma at the end”).

Dive in beyond the basic “hjkl:q” though.

Which version of vi you use won’t largely matter. As a bonus most IDEs support a good subset of vi commands so your skills become transferable. I use PyCharm and other Jet Brains IDEs all the time and ideavim is “good enough” for what I do.

Emacs is dead near as I can tell.

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