Just don’t ask how long it took to get my dGPU working properly :D But thankfully, there were a bunch of helpful folks with tips!

  • IcebladeOP
    24•23 days ago

    Oh undoubtedly!

    Hopefully my partitioning was decent though, so distro-hopping shouldn’t be too hard if I feel like switching (or even running different distros side-by-side?)

    I was personally drawn to it because: it’s not Ubuntu; ButterFS seems like a nice safety net; KDE Plasma is sexy AF; noone seems to have anything particularly horrible to say about it.

    Why is your chosen distro (obviously) the superior choice?

    • @[email protected]
      4•23 days ago

      Yeah, those are the same reasons I chose tumbleweed. Plus the rolling release.

      I hope you made your system partition large enough. I had about 20G for / (excluding /home), which used to be enough for kubuntu, but quickly ran out of space on tumbleweed. I assume because of the Btrfs snapshots.

      I reinstalled tumbleweed on a larger partition. Then couldn’t install the proprietary codecs, because of an error I couldn’t resolve.

      Installed it a third time recently, now it runs smoothly.

      • IcebladeOP
        2•23 days ago

        It suggested 200GiBs for root, which seemed a bit excessive but I didn’t argue

        • @[email protected]
          2•22 days ago

          If you intent to run virtual machines with virt-manager (especially if you keep the default path), that 200 Gb will seems short a bit :-)

        • @FutileRecipe
          1•23 days ago

          With most PC things (RAM, disk space, CPU, etc etc), too much is better than too little, provided you have the resources.

        • @[email protected]
          1•19 days ago

          The partition running full did prevent me from updating the system. That surely can be somehow fixed. But with time and skill being limited resources in my life, it doesn’t mean that it is unimportant.

      • IcebladeOP
        7•23 days ago

        But b-tree file system sounds way less fun!

        It’s already cemented itself as butterfly system in my mind lol

    • @spittingimage
      1•23 days ago

      Mint for gaming, because it’s nice to have a rock-solid OS that doesn’t need much beyond updates in terms of maintenance. Arch for hobby tinkering, because voiding warranties is fun.