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For a second I thought that the first field was:
IRL nickname: I don’t use IRL
Nobody should use IRL, it sucks and is way too humid.
Floridean detected
h–how did you manage that
What’s wrong with btrfs?
This is a rather old form and in its early days btrfs was not very stable.
People don’t know how CoW FSes work 🤷.
My only gripe with btrfs is that I’ve had systems come down from a single drive failure in raid quite “often” when compared to other FS.
ZFS is a ram hog but I always could do a live resilvering without downtime.
btrfs’s RAID features are not production-ready, and at this point I doubt they ever will be. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#Implemented_but_not_recommended_for_production_use
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Warning-RAID5-RAID6
ZFS is definitely more robust.
It is true for raid 5 & 6. Raid 0, 1, and 10 are supposed to be production ready. I use raid 10 only with btrfs, anything else and I use zfs or mdadm.
I wouldn’t go above two disks
You have to avoid the raid types is lists as not ready. Looks like facebook uses btrfs without issues
Raid 1 is stable. The problem is that btrfs has performance issues with resilvering a large amount of data. That isn’t something that can be fixed as it is a design flaw.
Maybe bcachfs will be production ready at some point
Don’t forget upstream: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html
Nothing these days
I don’t think I’d call it anything wrong, but the subvolumes definitely do make it different for installation purposes so that following ext4 instructions for bootloader configs or kernel arguments could put you on the wrong path
performance
opening programs was noticeably slower for me
benchmarks confirm this, and I think this is an aspect not discussed often enough
I benchmarked it and it blew XFS out of the water
Fucking Allan, always fucking shit up.
I liked using Arch, but i got tired of Allan breaking into my house and bricking my computers all the time, so i ended up switching
😬
All we wanted was some detail.
That’s funny and sadly accurate 🤣
Please return completed form to /dev/null in order for your fuck-up to be assessed by a professional.
Lol
Can we make it real?
I asked for the source, we’ll see if we get it 😁.
Thank you kind stranger 😊.
Found a pdf: https://heinicke.xyz/nixos/alfa.pdf
Ah, this is even better, I could actually edit it as vector 😊.
- lol
- My rootfs has been btrfs up to 2 days ago, when I switched back to TKFS (The King File System, AKA ext4) because I realized I have no use for the features of BTRFS.
What is the problem with using BTRFS for rootfs?
I think that this form is actually old, from when BTRFS was quite unstable. That point on the list made me chuckle.
It tends to break when you force power off the machine in my experience, where ext4 is super resilient to that kind of stuff.
Thats my experience at least.
Ext4 can’t detect data corruption while btrfs can. Btrfs has only bee stable for a handful of years now. It had way to many early adopters that were burned
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I get the feeling. I had a fuck-up directory with solutions for my failed android rooting efforts. I tried to flash my phone with a random recovery image I found in an old FAQ section.
Pacman -Syyu when you’re feeling extra desperate XD
I’ve been trying to decide what distro I want to go with for my desktop (Microsoft recently pushed copilot onto my windows 10). While I like the idea of Arch (fast, lightweight) and the fact that it’d be fully compatible with whatever I get on my steam deck, stuff like this makes me think a Debian-based distro would be better.
(That and the fact that most Linux stuff is designed for Debian and I don’t have enough experience to try and rebuild Debian stuff for Arch)
The aur usually has what I need, only have had to manually build once… Before I found the aur package. Endeavoros is a good easy way to get into arch if you are worried about the manual configuration.
Alright, cool. Why not Manjaro? I did a quick Google search and saw people saying Manjaro is bloated in comparison to EndevorOS, are there other reasons as well?
Yeah, they like forgot to reupload a new cert 3 times.
And they hold packages back. EndeavourOS uses Arch’s repos directly, whereas Manjaro has it’s own repos. EndeavourOS is just Arch with a GUI installer and some handy prepicked choices, like a DE.
Thanks!
Hasn’t been updated in a while, but still valid:
Just ignore “bloat” on principle. It’s a meaningless term and leads to much suffering.
Untold numbers of systems have been made unbootable, untold years of time wasted, trying to get rid of “bloat”.The most “bloated” distro in the world is probably a default Slackware installation.
It installs every single package in its repo. Including several desktop environments and every single KDE program.
And it’s just 2/3 of the size of a Windows installation.
Honestly I’ve found the opposite of what you said, where on Debian based distros I commonly had to go to a project’s git repo and follow readme instructions to build when it wasn’t in an apt repository. Meanwhile on arch, the only thing you have to install manually is yay and then afterwards everything is in the AUR. Not saying that makes arch more user friendly than Debian (obviously), but that one aspect I do actually find easier on arch at least if you’re willing to use an AUR helper.
It’s mostly game-related tools that I’ve discovered typically have Debian versions but no apparent (official) Arch support. Seems like most people who develop modding tools, save editors, stuff like that, mainly use windows and if you’re lucky will have a Mac and maybe Debian version
Edit: the windows binaries aren’t a huge issue, they usually work in Wine just fine; I just prefer not having to use wine.
I use mint. Everything works without too much fuss. Certainly easier than dealing with an endless stream of corpo shenanigans. It works quicker than windows ever did.
Linux Mint
Debian is nice.
There’s always Fedora as well
Wait until you need to validate the installed state of files on the machine. You’ll reconsider Debian like many security people do.
I doubt I’ll ever have to do that since I don’t really work in software development (I’m guessing that’s only relevant in software dev?), but thanks for the heads up.
Or… install bazzite on one or both… and use an Arch distrobox to get all the Arch/AUR goodness with none of the system breaking risks. I was on Arch for a few years, learned a lot, but as a first distro ? Your funeral…
I used to use Ubuntu years ago. The beauty of that distro is that it will fuck itself up. No action required on your part. Versions after 16 would black screen themselves after an upgrade, or the mouse pointer would go on vacation. Even better, it would say your 100% correct password was incorrect and lock you out.
You’re not really any worse off with something like Arch, aside from the initial install. Overall, less headaches for me.
