Perpetual Linux Distro Thread

ZFS is for big storage, single drives, it's not worth the overhead except in some niche use cases.

XFS is fine for speedy local FS.

 

That's what I want re: my game drive only.

 

Microsoft are still being 500 pound gorilla tactics and taking over projects and driving them in a direction that benefits them, don't be fooled the long game is still embrace, extend and extinguish. “Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer.”

And be diligent and check licensing changes they aren't all proper Open Source.

 

Not true! snapshots and replication are gold. Found any bit rot on your xfs?

 

and there's but one niche case I mention. for my external backup drives, I also make use of the copies=2 option so it's kinda like raid1 on a single drive - won't of course help for a drive mechanical failure, but any bitrot can be corrected.

but fluid is talking about storing game files, not irreplaceable personal data, so XFS is perfectly fine for that use case.

 

Emphatically not, considering the cost of some of the middleware and application software licenses. I'm looking at you, LSF.

 

My Fedora setups' been going acceptably well, except there's one thing that I'm fighting which came up out of nowhere which is the drawing tablet doesn't work, mostly.

After chasing my tail for a bit because there's a lot of older stuff to do with tablet compatibility kicking around, it seems the tablet driver might not be to blame, dmesg/drivers doesn't seem to think the tablet has frozen, and moreover I've most recently discovered it works perfectly fine in the login screen, and during login until some specific moment after logging in, which thereafter it causes the tablet input to no longer work when a click is done.

Especially annoying is that it sometimes does work and I haven't been able to nail down why. So far my other clue is that if I do a software update it sometimes begins working, so there may be something that's reset - this would be consistent to why the first time I plugged in the tablet it worked off the bat.

 

Nuked Win10 from a newer Acer Aspire laptop and replaced with the latest Manjaro Plasma build. First time using a rolling and Arch distro, so all very exciting.

Ran into some secure boot fuckery, made harder with Acer's 1995 BIOS and menu's/options hidden behind hotkeys. Some Googling sorted that out though. Was surprised just how smooth and quick the install process was. Was up and running in under 10 minutes! All hardware, bar the fingerprint scanner, is working great. Small issue with keyboard symbols being funky. That was a bit surprising as last time I've seen that happen was probably 10-15 years ago.