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very small system partition with LVM on debian. Is it OK?
  • It's fine. "Only 27GB" is hardly too small for the system, even a bloated system wouldn't take that much space.

    But if you must have a larger partition I think a reinstall would be easier, resize the partition is possible but because of the encryption not a straight forward thing. I wouldn't bother really.

  • What is your partitioning strategy to achieve a stable, backup-able and recoverable system?
  • That's not the question that needs to be answered, first you must allocate enough space for you system partition, and whatever other system related partitions that you want to use, var, temp, swap, you get the gist, then whatever space you have left is your home partition. This scenario being a default personal use desktop ofc.

    If this is going to be a BTRFS system then it also doesn't matter since sub volumes share the total space available dynamically.

    Also if this is a modern hardware consider not having a swap partition and instead use ZRAM.

  • What is your partitioning strategy to achieve a stable, backup-able and recoverable system?
  • Well having a dedicated /home partition is the very minimum and pretty much default.

    If you are interested in having a backup/restore solution for your system you are looking for BTRFS which uses sub volumes instead of primary partitions and is compatible with snapshot tools, those tools being Timeshift and Snapper.

    I do think Snapper is the superior solution however it's also more complex to set up and requires significantly more prep work. Imo totally worth it.

    I currently use it on my main machine Debian with BTRFS and Snapper and couldn't be happier.

  • Adblock Client for Mobile?
  • As far as I remember adaway is the og adblock for android, it is available on f-droid and pretty much the only app that I used since ever, and one of the few reasons I still won't let go of rooted phones, https://adaway.org/

    On top of that I would recommend you to run your own DNS server with unbound, add to that pi-hole and wireguard and you have your own pi-hole set-up on any device you want.: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/wireguard/overview/

  • [GNOME][OC] EVA-01_Rebuild I did (not) waste so much fucking time on this!
  • Thank you, it was a lot of work and I wanted to escape from the grayscale themes.

  • [GNOME][OC] EVA-01_Rebuild I did (not) waste so much fucking time on this!
  • This one?

    Or check the repo for the walls, it's made to work with the light/dark modes of GNOME.

    Also the art is from Ikhimaz.

  • [GNOME][OC] EVA-01_Rebuild I did (not) waste so much fucking time on this!
  • From Deb 7 to 11 I used XFCE, since it's been a long time I decided to check it out the state of GNOME with the 12 upgrade, despite a few annoyances, to my surprise GNOME is actually great and by far the easiest entry point to a painless wayland set-up.

    Everything else you can find on gnome-looks.

    Extensions = [Blur my shell, covertflow alt tab, date menu formatter, default workspace, gradient top bar, just perfection, remove app menu rounded window corners, tactile, user themes, workspace indicator]

    Thats it, hmu if I forgot something.

  • How to create a menu entry for booting into the command line from GRUB.
  • Not sure why you would want to specifically do that since you can boot from a normal graphics install and just use the shortcut ctrl+shift+F# to change to the TTY.

    However if you really want to just edit you GRUB config and copy paste the the menu entry you want to duplicate, and to one of them add a "space" and the number "3" to the end of the line. This way one entry would boot the graphics mode and the other would boot directly to TTY.

    The solution is found here https://www.linux.org/threads/grub-menu-entry-to-boot-to-tty.44508/ and perhaps a thread like this would better fit here [email protected]

  • AI_Boyfriend, you wouldnt download one right?

    can't teach an old dev to love computer

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    [Solved, sort of] Dualbooting, windows wont work when I switch from RST to AHCI? Alternative methods?
  • From past experiences, windows will only work with the mode that it was originally installed with, so if it wasn't installed with AHCI enabled before and you want it to use now you will need to re-install windows with AHCI enabled in your bios already.

  • Welcome to linux4noobs!
  • Install steam, with steam install your windows game, on the properties menu for the game enable compatibility mode, something like that, this will let you use proton to run the game that's basically it. Ofc depending on the game, your hardware and proton version your mileage will vary

  • Canvas.toast.ooo is the Lemmyverse r/place! Going on right now!
  • Is the canvas compatible to any of the mobile apps?

  • What are you Watching? (August 2023)
  • Still waiting for the new season of "For all mankind", started right after when the Expanse ended, right now I'm starved for a good scifi

  • Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech.
  • Ah I see, fuck speX is using the old muskAROO tactics to claim somebody else works as he's own. What a pathetic simulation we are in lmao

  • Spiral Aurora over Icelandic Divide
  • The admins are finally upgrading to bookworm

  • My boyfriend doesn't want to marry me because I'm an immigrant + UPDATE
  • What an absolute fool, the OOP dodged a bullet and this man child will be having a lifetime of regret.

    On another note glad to see a community like this on here, this was one of the few subs that I still found interesting to read instead of the flood of low quality reposts and bot posts on reddit's front page.

  • Debian Solarpunk vibes
  • +1 for Debian, an OS that never lets you down.

  • curious
  • Hmmm.. everything is fine..

  • Is there a way for communities to combine together?
  • some sort of "multireddit" is imo the best solution, one of the things I saw as a pro before joining the fediverse but it somehow seems to be dismissed inside is the fact that we should have options to join communities run by different people, if we don't like how things are run we can just "go somewhere else".

    We should have a way to index and group similar communities to view and interact while they still remain individual. Otherwise we are just going to be reddit 2.0, unfortunately I already saw a "powermod" starting to hoard communities on lemmy.world, that's the thing we should have left behind.

  • r/Android is now on the Fediverse!
  • Nevermind, my question was already answered itt