I mean, I could just patch and do some housecleaning, and maybe adjust partitions.
OR I could reinstall fucking everything from scratch because it feels good.
I recognize this behavior in myself… please send help.
Good rule of thumb I’ve decided upon over the years for this:
“If the # of kernels present is greater than 3, reinstall for thee”.
Figure 3 full kernel versions, excluding patches averages 12-18 months (based on kernel.org history). It’s been a good metric to follow.
Automate everything and leverage container and VMs
Why? IDK
Because automation, containers, and VMs are fucking cool. I can run computers inside other computers. I can run tiny little computers that only do one thing. How fucking cool is that?
I’m really excited about bootable containers. There is so much potential and I would love to see distros outside of Fedora and Red Hat running it.
Imagine running Arch but instead of battling your single system you instead created a Dockerfile and then built and tested new containers once and a while. You could even define tests so that a bad update would be flagged.
I have a cycle that goes like this:
- I just want a system that works. (Fedora)
- The UNIX philosophy is cool. (OpenBSD)
Repeat every 6 months or so. I’m never happy with my current system.
I feel this in my soul. With a side of “modern memory-safe languages are great” vs “the consistency and efficiency of shared libraries is what makes distributions great even if they’re written in C”.
I host a lemmy instance.
Thank you for helping host a less awful internet :)
I host several masto instances
Not sure which is more painful
I was looking into it, but the more I learn about it the more I’m leaning towards something else - misskey, akkoma, etc. Same function, but, supposedly, fewer headaches hosting.
I spend hours writing a bash script to automate something I know I’m only going to do once.
Classic
I store a lot of things on external media.
I also use a lot of Flatpaks.
Kill me.
Global filesystem=host it is then
Flatpak apps should implement portals which allow a user to grant permission to a file or folder.
Some don’t which sucks
I never really used Flatpaks until I got a Steam Deck and started doing a little game dev on it.
I now have an init script that I run after every SteamOS update to install paru and other libraries via pacman instead, lmao.
I ran out of fucks almost a decade ago, so I use basic-bitch Kubuntu and barely bother to customize it at all. (I turned on dark mode and picked a wallpaper, but that’s about it.)
My self-induced pain point is that I get mildly annoyed about snaps once in a while, but not enough to be worth switching distros.
Same, except I just use vanilla Ubuntu. It’s no longer the early '00s, you don’t have to tinker with configs on off the shelf hardware.
I customised my keyboard layout so now when using Corporate Laptop i always type with errors
I can’t live without the EurKey layout! Even had to get approval to add it to our systems at one megacorp I worked for.
EurKey
Interesting layout. What do you like about it?
I do a lot of programming, which is generally easiest with the US layout (since most languages were designed using this) but I also type frequently in a couple other languages which have extra characters. For me it’s easier to use than switching layouts.
The only rebind I use is tap <caps lock> to <esc> and hold <caps lock> to <ctrl> and that is already enough to confuse me when using setups not configured that way
The most annoying thing is “;” vs “.”. I switched them because the dot is much more useful. So now i always type twice to find out which comes first 🙄
I have an HP printer
No … your HP printer has you
In mother America, HP has YOU!
HP is so bad with drivers -.-
So do I, but it’s close* to 20 years old and has never had driver issues. Back then HP was one of the more supported OEMs for Linux printing.
*Edit: I pulled up the cover and it turns out it will be exactly 20 years old in 3 days.
Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in
.config.It’s like herding cats, it’s just awful.
My first Gentoo install took 3 weeks with all the reading required to do a secure boot UEFI install with a USB based key and boot configuration to ensure W10 could dual boot without problems WAY before that was easy and reliable with Anaconda on Fedora.
Now… Fedora is only writing the USB iso and like 2 clicks. It is easier and more reliable than Windows has ever been or even floppy disk DOS ever was. GNOME is a stupid simple desktop environment too.
I don’t have a million “fancy” cloud features and the latest software support but I don’t care. I’m happy and my computer does everything i want.
The only pain point i have is that KDE plasma 6.3 removed the option to toggle off the audio icon from programs that are playing audio. So stupid, why would i need to see constantly whats playing audio. I know what’s playing audio because I told it to play audio
I have a similar Plasma 6.3 issue. I use a software KVM to control my work laptop. Now I get a pop-up notification when my controls are being captured and sent to the other computer. Yeah, I know I’m doing that, it’s deliberate. I’ve been using a software KVM for 8 years. No way to turn it off that I can find that doesn’t also turn off all pop-up notifications.
i self host
I just use Kubuntu and stop worrying.
Yep, it just works™
I hit the point where I just throw on Fedora and call it a day
I also have a LFS VM I look at every few months and wonder if I want to do something with it
I haven’t had to compile a kernel in 20 years.
I don’t have to… I get to!
