How is this bloody test thread popping up in someone’s feed yearly? 😱

You must be delusional. Wayland is not freedom restricting.

Git would be my choice.

As others have mentioned - I’d use it as a hotel room and travel the world. I wonder if becoming a courier could fund the travel costs.

Couple of things.

• There’s some quote about evil winning when good peeps do nothing
• You need a thicker skin. Aim for a world where you don’t, but this one requires it. Besides, it’s the internet - fuck em.

Please don’t. Join another instance, run your own, whatever. We need more canapés!

All I can say is this:

A tiling window manager and tmux. I don’t like window decorations, I think they’re a waste of precious screen real estate. And tmux… Well. It’s like pringles.

I’ve only ever bothered going in one directions - forwards. Nothing crazy 1s/s. I’d say things are getting better and better. People are still people, but they’re fighting shit that’s more and more trivial. I see that as a great sign as it means the previous, bigger, more serious issues have gone away.

It is that deal from 2006(?) or so. Agreeing to not be sued for an exchange of money is dodgy. Add the competition which was not offered the same deal; add in the environment which was drastically different; it was a shit thing to do. Purely a business decision. I understand why the shareholders wanted that, but that doesn’t make it right nor desirable for me.

Granted, nothing came out of it in the end and Linux managed to get itself established in a way where one could argue is close to impossible to get rid of it, but I feel like this deal is similar to getting stabbed - the one being stabbed will always bear a scar and remember, while others will forget over time. People growing up after this deal will never have experienced the mood and environment of that time which only makes it more difficult to understand why it was a big deal.

I don’t use wofi, but in general - what’s there to maintain? It’s a launcher. There are no new novel ways popping up constantly to launch applications.

I’m lucky enough to be in a company where Windows is banned by the CEO. Granted, there are 4 (I believe) exceptions, but the vast majority of employees have an Ubuntu workstation and everyone has a macbook. A bit of a shame this macbook thing, really. A 2 grand thin client to ssh into my desktop when working remotely :D

The exceptions being client testing envs.

Do I need to disable compression on my swap subvolume?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Swap_file

Is there anything else I should keep in mind for fstab if I want to, say, not keep track of my Downloads folder when snapshotting?

Just create a separate subvolume for it. Snapshots do not work recursively, so it will be left alone.

Mount options also only take effect on the first mount of the device. Since it looks like you only have 1 btrfs device - only / needs the options, really.

Not the guy you asked, but my 2 main gripes are:

• holding back main repos and not aur? That’s dumb and just asking for trouble.
• sheer incompetence. Remember their certs expiring? Remember their public recommended workaround? That’s webdev level of bs. They absolutely do not understand their own setup.

Most of them.

• Debian world - apt sucks. For something with a sole purpose of resolving a dependency tree, it’s surprisingly bad at that.

• Redhat world - everything is soooo old. I can see why business people like it, buy I rarely, if ever, agree with business people.

• Opensuse world - I’ve only tried it once, probably 15 years ago. Didn’t really know my way around computers all that much at the time, but it didn’t click and I’ve left it. Later on I found out about their selling out to Microsoft and never bothered touching it again.

• Arch - it was my daily for a year or two. Big fan. It still runs my email. At some point the size of packages started to annoy me, though. Still has the best wiki. I’ve never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with.

I’ve got the Gentoo bug now. For the first time I genuinely feel ~/. A lean, mean system of machines :)

I see your point, but my personal view is that I like order. I don’t even care too much about specific kind of order. Chaotic-looking things can also be in-order (my favourite example is Vietnamese traffic).

I would argue at least is not equal to the least. It’s a different word, despite being spelt the same. There are a few examples like that which, unfortunately, escape me at the moment.

Also, don’t mean any offence, but text is difficult to relay that - I’ve literally loled at you mispelling grammar in the sentence talking about grammar and spelling :D

:D unbeliebable. My bad.

Less. It’s used eveywhere, although should only be used with uncountable nouns.

Less drama is prefered.

Fewer items left on the shopping list.

I’m too far down the rabbit hole. Everything I need works, I have built my workflow around sway.

Macs can go to hell because of their ctrl key placement alone; windows has never left hell, not much can be done about that.

I like owning my machine, even if it allows to shoot myself in the foot. With a shotgun. That is the true freedom, I suppose, and I appreciate it more than had ever expected.

It’s not. TempleOS is a famous from scratch OS created by a guy with serious mental illness. It’s a sad story, but the capability of that guy was incredible. He’s gone now :(

You can try fdisk.

If the partition table is there - create a new partition at the exact same location, of the exact same size.

If the partition table is not there - create *the exact same type (mbr vs gpt) partition table, then do the first if.

Fdisk should tell you that it found a filesystem signature. Do not wipe it.

There would be no good without the bad. It would just be.

You’re making things up. The hungry were hidden, the disabled were shamed, the homeless were turned to thieves, no reason was needed to send anyone to siberia. And sent they were. russia has not been just a nation of peasant farmers for a very long time.

Have you seen the results of communism?

I’ve seen the effort, seen the results. Thank you, no thank you.

It should probably be a hint of sorts - while the idea might be tolerable, once people enter the mix - it all goes to shit.

I’d argue the main point of Arch is AUR - it’s really good.

That is factually incorrect. I bring to you the one and only - 🇬 🇪 🇳 🇹 🇴 🇴 :)

Fine, let’s have it your way.

🇬 🇪 🇳 🇹 🇴 🇴 , obviously 😀 It’s flexible to no end, enables trimming off the most cruft and, because of that, can be the most secure. That last bit depends on how trigger happy you are to installing packages from outside 🇬 🇪 🇳 🇹 🇴 🇴 repos.

Would highly recommend giving 🇬 🇪 🇳 🇹 🇴 🇴 a try ;)

Huh. Neat!

Evolution work fine with a business google account. I couldn’t use gnome online accounts as that’s blocked by policy, but regular imap worked just fine.

☝️

I don’t know how mint installer works, but ideally you’re never really writing to / of the filesystem to begin with. You always do a subvolume and manipulate that.

I don’t know, haven’t used Mint in a decade. It’s not difficult to set it up, though.

BTRFS has a concept called a subvolume. You are allowed to mount it just like any other device. This is an example /etc/fstab I’ve copied from somewhere some time ago.

UUID=49DD-6B6F                                  /efi            vfat    defaults        0 2
UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /               btrfs   subvol=@root    0 0
UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /home           btrfs   subvol=@home    0 0
UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /opt            btrfs   subvol=@opt     0 0
UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /srv            btrfs   subvol=@srv     0 0
UUID=701c73d7-58b5-4f90-b205-0bb56a8f1d96       /var            btrfs   subvol=@var     0 0

/efi (or /boot, or /boot/efi, whatever floats your boat) still has to be a separate vfat partition, but all the other mounts are, technically speaking, the same partition mounted many times with a different subvolume set as the target.

Obviously, you don’t need to have all of them separated like this, but it allows you to fine tune the parts of system that do get snapshot.

It’s not wrong, as such, but simply not right. Since you’re using btrfs, having a separate partition for home makes little sense. I, personally, also prefer using a swapfile to a swap partition, but that’s potato/potato.

I’d like to respond to 3.

My suggestion would be to setup a keyfile to unlock the partition automatically. You can use your EFI partition to store the keyfile, which makes no sense from security perspective; or you can keep it on a usb drive. Machine will ask for password if usb is not present, or boot straight up if it is.

Thinking straight is rare in stressful situations.

Ah, I had misunderstood your /boot situation previously. There’s an easy way to fix it by backing up current content of boot, unmounting it, creating some dir somewhere where there’s space (/tempboot was my choice last time), bind mounting it to /boot and going through the apt process. Then unmount the bind, mount the real boot, delete everything except currently booted kernel stuff, copy all the things from /tempboot update the initrd and grub. Et voila!

You won’t. Arch has very little glue that holds it together and the components are quite robust. Buntus of this world, on the other hand, have plenty of glue to enforce their way. And it might be good for first timers, but definitely gets in a way as you start learning the system. My last annoyance like this was disabling gdm - it just kept coming back. Some script somewhere was making sure thr service was running no matter what.