sound’s like timeshift’s fault, not btrfs

my brain took way too long to understand the picture

it’s mostly for touchpads, I find it better as it mimics the behaviour on phones touchscreen but sometimes I disable it

I hope nobody uses it on a mouse

For Firefox I replaced it with the flatpak version and hid the system version, I found that better

As for chosing what to install where, i made simple rules

• If it’s available as a flatpak, I use the flatpak
• Otherwise if it is system related/always required, rpm-ostree
• Otherwise, I use distrobox (it’s like toolbx but better, it’s more integrated with the rest of the system and allows to have containers of other distros, for example I had some debian only packages and used an Arch container for AUR packages)

But if it’s too much of a hassle for and it’s gonna be your daily system, yeah better not use it.

If I change a config file in /etc, will the changes survive a reboot?

I didn’t completely understand how etc is handled, but it worked fine and kept my configs while merging at the same time the files from the apps i installed

How can I see or decide which parts of the system are immutable and which are not?

I’m note sure it’s possible, at least i didn’t see the option and i’ve never tried (i never needed it anyway). /var was mutable, /usr/lib /usr/bin… were not (/usr/local was mutable), and /opt and /home were symlinked to /var/opt and /var/home, so mutable

edit: now i remember there was something about using “overlays” that allowed to modify /usr, i think i only used it once so i don’t really remember

Can I install packages that aren’t available as flatpaks, like more obscure stuff or command line tools?

Yes, thanks to rpm-ostree, you can install basically any rpm with it, it’s just really slow as each transaction must create a new generation, but it worked fine. Also you are supposed to reboot to make the changes apply, unless you use the --apply-live option (which was described as experimental when i was using it, don’t now about now tho)

What about ppd files for printing, firmware, drivers, fonts, icon packs, etc.? Where and how do those get installed?

Same thing, rpm-ostree

I read on the github that there is a registry key to set to fix this problem

Did you symlink the compdqta folder um don’t remember it’s been too long…

Also I heard winbtrfs in windows isn’t as stable as ntfs3 in Linux :(

I’m trying to share stuff between the os because I lack so much space (500 Go for Windows + nixos + my old fedora silverblue parution that still has data I have to clean) fortunately I’m soon upgrading to 1To but I’ll probably fill everything again in a fews months 😅

ah too bad, I thought I finally had a solution for the lack of storage… I’ll probably do it anyway just in case I need quick access to one Linux game but the rest of the time I’ll keep them on the ntfs

Ah I wish I read that sooner, when the ntfs3 driver was released I moved my games to an NTFS partition, i don’t remember precisely but some wouldn’t work, and then unlike my ext4 or btrfs partition which were unbreakable, a lot of things became unreadable and undeletable after a forced shutdown. Probably my fault, but in any case i think it’s not worth the hassle. I only had games on it fortunately so didn’t lose anything significant

…and now I’m planning on making a btrfs partition for my games and using winbtrfs to use it on windows as well, probably another bad idea but I wanna do it so badlybadly

EDIT: Yup, it was a bad idea, sometimes getting blue screens when trying to empty the trash on the btrfs

Insecurity is annoying too 🤷‍♂️

I hate windows too but this is something normal that also happens on Linux. Take a drive from another system and you won’t be able to edit its protected files without root access.

It’s probably bad for privacy, but it makes self hosting super easy

moral of the story: if you have an addiction, replace it with tomatoes

That actually makes a lot of sense, i’ll probably steal some of your points for future debates :)

oh it makes more sense with this definition instead of just “living beings”

If having a reaction to physical damage (like moving away) is enough to be qualified as pain, then some plants feel pain too. We studied in biology a plant that when cut/eaten by animals releases chemicals that warn plants around it and triggers them to release another chemical that interferes with animal’s digestive system and make them starve (I don’t remember the name of the plant unfortunately). So should we consider this as pain too ?

there are many other examples here too:wikipedia

man I hate philosophy

Bacterias are living creatures as well, yet I doubt most vegans have an issue with them

edit: I don’t even know why I picked bacterias as an example when I could just have chosen plants, which are by definition alive too

Just because something can’t feel pain, does that mean we should hurt it ?

Maybe we don’t have the same definition of hurting, but I can’t see how “hurting” works with something that can’t feel pain. Like can you hurt a chair ?

Not sure, I heard some species of jellyfish are super invasive

but then by fishing you may catch other fishes I think

we need an expert

It depends on the ISP, country etc

I’m in France and almost every time our IP changes it’s because my parents changed our internet subscription, or because moved to another place

OS ? nah that’s bloated and adds too much security flaws, true paranoids use UEFI programs