I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.

  • Montagge
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    361 year ago

    That I could put /home on a different drive
    That I would never boot into Windows again so having partitions for it was a waste of time
    That mounting drives with their uuid as the mount location is insane

    • That mounting drives with their uuid as the mount location is insane

      Why tho? Kernel sometimes can index drives in different order (if you have multiple drives), screwing your mount locations. But UUID is always the same

        • @Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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          But why would I even try to remember them? Just look them up. Nowadays I don’t even see them since I use Gnome Disk Utility or KDE partition manager to automount them (they both just write to your /etc/fstab)

          • But why would I even try to remember them? Just look them up.

            For me, I used labels when setting up those volumes manually. Creating a LUKS container, setting up LVM groups and volumes, configuring my bootloader to decrypt the correct encrypted disk, etc. It was just easier to remember which device label was my encrypted container, which was the group, and what the different volumes were. And once the labels were made, well, I just used them.

      • Montagge
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        31 year ago

        It’s just really long is all. I wish I had given it something shorter but descriptive.