lemmyvore

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lemmyvore,

Gentoo had their own meme: Gentoo is for ricers.

lemmyvore,

Tbf I don’t think many people know about pacdiff. The way I found out about it was by looking up a warning about pacnew/pacsave during an upgrade, because I was bored. Very random.

lemmyvore, (edited )

Normally I have the valet bring the PC around but I let him go early today 'cause it’s his birthday.

lemmyvore, (edited )

Manjaro has a graphical app for installing and upgrading software, as well as one for managing kernel versions and one for drivers. You don’t need to know about the command line options if you don’t want to.

Are those the apps you’re taking about?

lemmyvore,

I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve never had to do any “maintenance” on Manjaro.

Also whenever I run into someone saying they had lots of issues on Manjaro they can never remember what they were.

lemmyvore, (edited )

You have to wait for the semi-regular “stable update” post, check the major issues and act accordingly.

You don’t have to wait for them, you can update without it. The vast majority of issues in those posts are caused by the upstream packages not by Manjaro. If you use one of those packages and if an update brings a problem and if you’re affected by it you can read the latest post to see if there’s a readily available solution that someone in the Manjaro community has already found. It’s a community service not a mandatory read.

This shouldn’t happen in a “beginner friendly” distro.

You have to keep in mind it’s still an Arch derivative. I said the most beginner-friendly among Arch distros, not the most beginner-friendly in the world. Arch is a bleeding-edge rolling-release distro. When you keep constantly updating tens of thousands of packages to their latest versions some of them will occasionally have bugs. It’s the price you pay for staying on the bleeding edge.

all other majors distros update without intervention.

Please. If only that were true.

lemmyvore,

There isn’t anything wrong. Many of the things that “common crowd wisdom” in the Linux community says are bad are just drama. They get into their own heads about something and lash out at anything that’s different.

lemmyvore,

Same about Manjaro, it’s probably the most beginner-friendly Arch distro. Arch is inherently not beginner-friendly, of course any distro that attempts to make it more so will have to change a couple of things. It’s a pity some people can’t see beyond keeping Arch “pure”.

New to Linux, have a few questions

I currently use Windows 10 and I’d like to try out Linux. My plan is to set up a dual boot with OpenSUSE tumbleweed and KDE Plasma. I’ve read so many different opinions about choosing a distro, compatibility with gaming and Nvidia drivers, and personal issues with the ethos of different companies like Canonical. I value...

lemmyvore,

Windows likes to pretend it’s the only OS in the world so it can overwrite the bootloader and you lose access to the Linux install.

But if you use separate disks for each there’s a simple solution if your BIOS has a quick boot selection: install each bootloader on its respective disk and use the BIOS selector at boot.

Alternatively, install the Linux bootloader on the Linux disk; it will autodetect Windows and offer it as a boot option, but Windows won’t be aware of Linux. In BIOS you set Linux as permanent boot disk in this case.

lemmyvore,

You can indeed always install another distro. You can also run many distros in “live cd” mode, just boot from the install media and choose the live option without installing. It’s actually a great way to see if a distro will play nice with your hardware and LAN and peripherals out of the box.

lemmyvore,

Timeshift was designed for system snapshots not home files. You can force it to cover home but it’s better to use BackInTime which was designed specifically for home snapshots.

Preparing to move from Ubuntu to Fedora

Hi! I’m seeking some advice and sanity check on hopping from Ubuntu to Fedora on my personal PC. I’ve been using Ubuntu LTS for almost two years now, switched from Windows and never looked back. But I cannot say I know Linux well. I use my PC for browsing, some gaming with Steam (I have AMD GPU), occasional video editing,...

lemmyvore, (edited )

You don’t have to use an LTS version if you don’t want to stick to it… Also Fedora is on a yearly upgrade cycle too, just so you know, it’s not a rolling distro. You can actually upgrade sooner on Ubuntu because it’s on a 6-month upgrade cycle.

Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives

Are there good Microsoft word alternatives that support Linux (I don’t mind closed source)? Libreoffice is meh and only office is quite good, but are there any better ones? Also, is there a way to install word on Linux using wine? When I do that my laptop just overheats and loses internet connection.

lemmyvore,

They obviously need it to open docs made in Word by other people…

lemmyvore, (edited )

Can you draw a hand?

lemmyvore,

You can achieve the exact same thing with a normal distro if you mount /var and /boot separately of /. And if you get a root exploit it’s just as harmful on either approach.

“Immutable” systems are meant for maintainer comfort not for user security.

lemmyvore,

Sure it is, has been for decades. You can use a read-only root partition, there are many tools to ensure the integrity of everything on it, and tracing files back to their package is a very old feature.

lemmyvore,

I’m starting to think people misunderstand what an “immutable” distro really does…

lemmyvore,

Fun fact, the init process can be anything, even /bin/bash or a shell script. But if it ends or dies so does the system, and of course you want extra features like multiuser capability, better interface etc. So it’s typically a more complex system like you said, that starts a bunch of other things. But you can still see the init process with PID 1 there in the process list. 😊

lemmyvore,

I would also mention:

  • The multi-user system, which is a bunch of config files, libraries, utils and UIs, that deal with logging in or doing stuff as a specific user.
  • The logging system. Individual applications can simply log to a different file each but for system services the logging is usually centralized and offers additional features (like logging remotely etc.)
  • Setting up networking is pretty much mandatory these days.
lemmyvore,

Any distro is “stable” if you know how to use it.

Sounds like you’re in a good place with Endeavour, why not stick to it?

Broke a partition. Is there any way of saving it?

While I was switching distros, I accidentally broke a partition. I’m almost certain that all the data is there, but it doesn’t have a filesystem (I used ext4). Is there anything I can do to fix it, similar to changing the file extension without changing the contents. PS: It’s a data partition. I was trying to resize it,...

lemmyvore,

It would help if you told us what exactly you did to break the partition.

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    lemmyvore,

    I think you bit a big mouthful if you’re just starting out on the NAS game. I would suggest breaking things down into smaller pieces:

    1. Prepare a standalone container only with the VPN.
    2. Try to set up a torrent client container on its own.
    3. Learn how to set up docker networks for the 1st and 2nd container so that the torrent client will always use the VPN.
    4. Try to set up a Jellyfin container on its own.
    5. Move on to the *arr stack.

    nixOS also has a bit of a learning curve and it would’ve probably been easier if you started with something else. Up to you if you want to stick to it. IMO it’s mostly overkill for an OS that will simply serve as the base for a docker setup.

    lemmyvore,

    I’m on Manjaro with an 1660. Never had any issues.

    lemmyvore,

    I think it was done on purpose.

    Anyway… I figured out a workaround in my script. By focusing one of the windows on the current workspace before I open a new tab it seems to make it the preferred window. It’s not foolproof, sometimes it still selects one of the other windows, but it’s close enough.

    Here’s the script in case anybody needs it, should work with any editor that has some sort of -tab and -window options if you grep for the correct window name:

    
<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WORKSPACE=$(
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	wmctrl -d |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	grep '*' |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	awk '{print $1}'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WINID=$(
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	wmctrl -l |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	grep ' - Mousepad' |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	grep -E "s${WORKSPACE}s"|
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	tail -1|
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	awk '{print $1}'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">if [ -z "$WINID" ]; then
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	exec /usr/bin/mousepad -o window "$@"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">else
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	wmctrl -i -a "$WINID" &amp;&amp; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	sleep 0.5 &amp;&amp; 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	exec /usr/bin/mousepad -o tab "$@"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">fi
</span>
    lemmyvore, (edited )

    It won’t teach you about the kernel, it’s just a tool that papers over the existing tools for building and debugging the kernel.

    If you want to learn then follow a tutorial for building the kernel by hand. Going through the kernel configuration (it’s long) and searching details for the entries is what teaches you the most.

    Fair warning, it’s a very deep rabbit hole about computer architecture, networking and lots of other things. But it’s an amazing teaching source.

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