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>>108429990If this picture was accurate one of the penguins would be obese, another would have a [insert radical left flag here] pin and dyed hair, and another would be trans and have programming socks on.
>>108430003Holy mother of obsessed.
How do i easily set up raid 1 on gnome, kde whatever DE? I just my 1 disk partition to copy to another automatically. .
>>108430047It's a joke, relax and laugh at yourself for once.
The fonts on 4chan are weirdly squashed for me ever since I swapped to Linux. Anyone else? What is causing it?
>>108430055sudo btrfs device add /dev/to/add /mountpointsudo btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 --full-balance /mountpoint
sudo btrfs device add /dev/to/add /mountpointsudo btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 --full-balance /mountpoint
>>108430166hey I just pasted this 1 to 1 into my terminal and now my computer doesn't work anymore??
>>108430183
>>108430183No refunds.
is BTRFS the future?
>>108430206more like BTFO
>>108430206no, it's the present
>>108429627>Linux isa kernel
Wanna install kitty, my OS repository is 3 versions behind.Should I avoid installing into .local or is it fine? How do I keep track of what I've installed that way?
>>108430206It's the present. Btrfs is what any serious distro uses now by default.
What is the consensus on /g/ about which distro free from systemd AIDS I should install?
>>108430135Iunno looks normal to me, but if there is a problem with it, it might be your browser.
>>108430405Guix.
>>108430405BDS as well as Devaun, but I haven't had any exp with non-systemd systems, I would vm one for a bit and daily drive it before jumping, just incase.
>>108430373>Should I avoid installing into .local or is it fine?What then? /usr/local?https://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable-systemd/introduction/position.html>How do I keep track of what I've installed that way?You don't.https://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter08/pkgmgt.html
>>108430396but why isn't every distro doing that? ext4 is a dead end yet it keeps being used willy nilly.
>>108430405the consensus is that worrying about systemd is mental illness
>>108430472>why don't distros that target older hardware using cutting edge techAnon...
>>108430496>worrying about security is mental illnessEurope thought the same thing and then every other country in the world fucked their economy into the dirt, you only get fucked when you have that kind of attitude, even if you think its silly.
>>108430496Among retards yes
>>108430405Void, Artix, or Devuan. Pick your flavor.>>108430507>muh securityMaybe add Alpine to the list of options.
>>108430507>security>on meme distros without systemd
>>108430522You forgot Tiny Linux>>108430532I'm willing to hear you out, explain yourself.
>>108430544>I'm willing to hear you out, explain yourself.Well, I just enjoy being sodomized by the government and hate the idea that some of you do not.
on Linux the source code for all my GIMP plugins is 6mb. On Windows its almost 180MB because I had to static link gettext just to get it to work on GIMP 3.0.8 - which means Windows source code ships separate fuck windows
>>108430656You don't like echos?
>>108430405Devuan, Artix or Void
