So he was manually compiling all the software he used, even those related to his system like openssh?

Just to add a note for OP: If your not into tinkering and taking care a of your OS don’t even think to try any Arch based distro. There’s a minimum time you have to spend to keep your system healthy.

Just recentlty I had a boot issue after an update (black screen on boot without login or tty) and after a lot of debugging and websearch couldn’t fix my issue. At first I though of a fuckedup bootloader or to long wait time between updates but It was a recent issue with MESA and nvidia driver.

Had I looked up the EndeavourOS forum rather then my own search results that would have avoided a fuckedup fresh install wich didn’t solved the issue either.

So yeah, there was a solution out there (downgrade MESA, install new nvidia driver rather than nouveau) but I wasn’t looking in the right place 🫤 So here I’m with a fresh install…

Yeah XFCE is great ! I tried KDE 6 to give it a try and compare but I guess I spent to much time in the CLI to bother about all the GUI knobs KDE provides !!!

Also when you accidentally create a directory called ‘~’ the command rm -r ~ is not the right one…

Ughh ! That one is nasty !

I can finally meet the ONE? 🤓

You can compress to lossy and still don’t make the difference between each while saving a ton of storage. Opus 192k is really good and mostly transparent.

I do agree that storage is cheap however if you have to make backups, it really gets satured very fast !

I really wan’t to give Asahi a try, however I read alot about power mangement taking a big hit ! This makes me reluctant to give it a try on my M1.Maybe for the next big wipe on my laptop?

Either way, congratulation and thank you for all you work on allowing to get rid of Apple’s closed ecosystem !

It does “support” LVM, but with a wacky/hacky workaround and that’s a real shame !

Also, there is some talking on github on how they will probably completely drop LVM in the near futur… That’s not what someone should expect from a Linux installer!

Also old users don’t remember long commands if we use a command more than once. You save it to your bash alias file to create your own commands.

A good example for this is docker compose -f when you work alot if compose files ! Having an alias for docker compose -f as dcf saves hours a month xD

Kitty is also a good example ! Very customizable but maybe less user friendly to begin with.

Hehe, I’m doing this all the time now ! 3 years ago when I started my linux/self-hosted server journey with debian: CLI only !

Was difficult at times and had a few breakdowns (most got fixed the next day… Sleep/taking some time off really helps !!!)

One thing I’m still bad at… Is taking notes. Haven’t found a good way take IT notes. And I tried sooo many different approaches…

Huuh ! That’s somehow similar to how calamares treats LVMs. And also a hack/wacky workaround similar how to fix LVM installation

• mount every partition similar as chrooting
• cd to each directory in a separated shell for each directory (keeps the mount points busy)
• swapon the swap partition

Only then you are able to install your OS with calamares on a LVM filesystem hierarchy…Except this is a 5 years long issue/bug and they are discussing to drop LVM support :/.

Sorry for hijacking your comment with something unrelated to the actual post, I’m just amazed on how Linux fixes/workarounds can be odd at times.

I wish I could install EOS on my M1 Mac… I know threre is Asahi linux, but maintenace and updates have slowed down & stopped?

For good reasons though, hope the mainteners are doing okay. And wish them luck

AMERICA, fuck yeah !

Joke aside, that’s some nasty drug addiction you have here, neverthless it’s an useful one and worth the study to better understand how to treat venom.

There was also some kind of dude who did the same in Australia and in India.

I guess Ubuntu? 10 years ago or even more? can’t remember… Tried it for a bit but didn’t stick at first and went back to Windows until 2020.

Installed my first homelab and selfhosted application on my old spare laptop with Debian (only over command line).

So I gave Linux desktop another try… Ubuntu for a few days => Manjaro for a few days => EndeavourOS !

Got hooked and are now a proud EOS user for about 3 years and never will I look back into Windows !

I’m still in the learning process, but in the long run I will probably switch to bare bone Arch.

The question marks are because I read somethere that Linus himself doesn’t see it like an issue by itself but more like a feature? And that’s why it hasn’t been resolved for soo long ! I can’t exactly remember what he said but that’s the gist !

But I do agree, I also see it as an issue :/ and most people who aren’t aware probably fucked up some USB sticks that way…

1. Copy 1Gb movie to flash drive, says it’s done in 10 seconds. Try to remove the flash drive, still in use. Turns out it’s actually still copying.

This is not distro related but GNU/Linux and a known “issue” for over decades ! Everything gets into you ram memory and gets dumped from there into your USB storage device.

watch grep -e Dirty: -e Writeback: /proc/meminfo

A long term solution would like to write a udev rule something like here:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/771398/solving-the-usb-drive-mass-storage-stall-issue

Yeah can’t argue against that, never tried NixOS !

Yeaaaah !! I 100% agree on that ! However, this is a steep learning curve and sometimes a lot of tweaking/reading !

My pops just want to copy past a crack and execute… Yeah, I know…

I can’t stand seeing my father struggling with windows…I tried to make him switch, but he has old piracy blood in him and just want Windows things and pirated software, some which do not have any alternatives on Linux.

Also, he’s getting old and he always talks about he don’t want to relearn a whole system. But everytime we see each other and talk about computers he trash talks how bad windows is…

Maybe that’s just something he needs… And boring distros are going to make him depressed? Dunno

Sorry for the story time, but you switching fully to linux made me think of my Dad in hope sometimes he will also take the steps to get out of there 😅!