>>107828644
>Captura de pantalla
>can't into linux
pottery

>>107828644
Absolutely not, Linux is a objectively worse experience than Any of the Windows LTSC

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>>107828706
better?

>>107828644
what kind of an idiot creates snapshots of the system on the drive system is at?

>>107828748
I didn't do shit, it came like this by default when I bought my computer

>>107828644
>linux
How is this anything but timeshifts fault, dumbfuck? Maybe if you used a proper distro you could have used btrfs snapshots.

>>107828644
>timeshift snapshots

>>107828725
Clean your display faggot

>>107828725
Nigger clean your screen.
>In before acting like a retard
No, it's not my screen as when I scroll the picture so does the filth.

>>107828773
that's not a distro issue either though he could well have installed mint on btrfs

>>107828781
I already did. It used to be dirtier before
you can't understand because you're a basement dweller who still lives with his/her parents, but once you leave home you have to get used to lower hygiene conditions

>>107828783
It is a distro issue since mint sets it up by default.

>>107828800
>his/her
kys

>>107828802
>>107828644
Mint only snapshots system files by default. It shouldn't take 130GB unless you're including the home folder.
Just like Windows Restore Point
>>107828748
I do it on my system, but I'm not retarded and don't include entire home directory.

>>107828800
>once you leave home you have to get used to lower hygiene conditions
only if you're an incel who doesn't get visited by women

>>107828644
OP show us your timeshift settings

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>>107828907
>>107828897
no home directory. does anybody know how to check what's wrong?

>>107828943
Show how many snapshots you have.
Also, how often you install things?
If you did an upgrade recently, it will remain as a snapshot. and will get deleted later on.

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>>107828943
I'm not sure how often I update shit, when things don't work I just copy paste commands I found on the internet without knowing what they do.
I recently installed a new kernel because the old one didn't work

>>107829004
I meant to reply to >>107828978
the november update is the bulky one btw

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>>107829004
Show the configuration tab.
But My system uses 66GB for 3 snapshots, they rotate weekly
And it includes the difference for Mint Upgrade

>>107829004
But realistically, it shouldn't take any more than 80GB
Do you have a mounted external drive by any chance? Like a NAS? You need to exclude it as well. Otherwise it will back it up.

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>>107828644
NTA but I wanted to give Linux a try again after 10-15 years. The main reason is because of all that Copilot shit being shoved in our mouth and asses.
Installed Fedora which was very easy. Few clicks and done.
My first impressions: pleasant interface, pretty smooth experience.
But then problems started happening.

First, the nvidia drivers with secure boot. It doesn't have not the greatest support. I had to go through some tinkering like making it work with secure boot and then installing few packages. I broke the system once and had to reinstall Fedora again. Anyway after like an hour I was done.

Then my mpv. When I run a video, audio works but the screen is just black. I installed hundred ffmpeg-related packages, re-installed mpv from Software Center/flatpak, but it still didn't work. I decided to install VLC since I didn't get any progress, and that shit worked. But then suddenly mpv also started working. Weird but ok.

Next, my PC went to sleep. I woke it up and then it just went black screen. Turns out my wifi drivers were causing problems. I just decided to disable it since I use LAN.

The next one was the last drop. I was watching youtube and then my video just stops. It wasn't Internet issue - there was no buffering. I went through a lot of shit like enabling hardware acceleration, installing bridge for nvidia etc. In the end I couldn't completely eliminate it.

In the end, I just decided to fuck it and remove it. I don't have any tolerance for this shit anymore. I just want to get home after work and expect my PC to just work, and Windows shit just works. I see the progress in Linux but there are still these small pesky one-offs that just drive me crazy.

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>>107829051
I don't
>>107829033
which tab inside the configuration window? neither says much important

>>107829004
One more thing, your /var has a lot of data. Exclude it.
As /var usually holds logs

>>107829085
>Monthly
There's your issue
Do you know how many files change in a month?
Change it to weekly and set it to 2.
Mark those snapshots for deletion by right clicking.

>>107829061
>Fedora
that's your issue

>>107829061
>First, the nvidia drivers with secure boot
Turn off secure boot.
And use Linux Mint. Don't go distro hopping

>>107829087
I don't know whether to trust random anons on shit that could brick my system
>>107829101
I don't think that's safe. When a nvidia driver fails, it takes many weeks until I decide to play a game that breaks it. Under your configuration, the good drivers would be gone before I notice there's a p roblem
>>107829140
>Turn off secure boot
just don't buy a computer with secure boot. buy one of those without an operative system

just use windows, amigo, troonix is just a toy, today is snapshots, later you don't know, maybe the pc can't even boot

>>107829180
actually, that happened two months ago. I already fixed it

>>107829140
No anon, I got it working with secure boot after all. It wasn't even the hardest thing of all to solve.

>>107828644
>Captura de pantalla de
lmao

>>107829152
>I don't think that's safe. When a nvidia driver fails, it takes many weeks until I decide to play a game that breaks it. Under your configuration, the good drivers would be gone before I notice there's a problem
don't know what to tell you man, either you invest the hdd space into backups for this sort of thing or you don't. TANSTAAFL.

>>107828644
>installs Mint after reading 2017 Reddit posts
>instead of using literally any distro with Btrfs snapshots that take up next to no space

>>107829152
>When a nvidia driver fails, it takes many weeks until I decide to play a game that breaks it. Under your configuration, the good drivers would be gone before I notice there's a p roblem
Just keep a note of the nvidia driver number.
It can be redownloaded.
Like this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

>>107829208
>instead of using literally any distro with Btrfs snapshots
You need btrfs partition. Linux Mint can be installed with it if that's your preference.
But BTRFS has downsides. If it ever goes corrupt, you're basically fucked

>>107829208
yeah just use tardora and get this instead >>107829061

>>107828783
Mint ha no Btrfs in the graphical installer; you have to manually partition Btrfs without any on-screen instructions.

>>107828644
>usr+var+boot
look at how bloated that shit

>>107829263
explain

>>107829251
>Linux Mint can be installed with it if that's your preference.
Saying you can get Btrfs on Mint is like saying you can get SysVinit on Mint; if there isn't a button to do it, it's not a realistic option.

>>107829272
nta but my usr is 22 gigs var is 4 so yeah yours are super fat for some reason

>>107829287
lol come on now, you're really saying manually creating a few partitions during install is the same as ripping out systemd and changing the whole init system nahh don't exaggerate like that

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>>107829287
actually there's a button, but it's greyed out for some reason

>>107829308
because your file system isn't btrfs which is done during install

>>107829287
There's a guide for people who can read
https://github.com/orgs/linuxmint/discussions/549

>>107829308
It's greyed out because the only file system Mint lets you select during the installation is Ext4. It's a shit distro.
>>107829334
I don't find manual partitioning fun or a valuable use of my time. Why should I have to manually partition on Mint when the vast majority of mainstream distros default to Btrfs and in some cases don't even offer an Ext4 option during the installation?

>>107829353
mint is meant to be easy for tards explaining to them that if their drive ever gets full they'll get fucked by their fs isn't part of that idea i guess

>>107829353
Because BTRFs is still considered experimental.
Linux Mint is designed for stability, for most retarded of linux users, your granmas and grandpas, where ext4 is proven to be robust and working.

>>107829369
>>107829353
EXT4 just works
Same with Linuc Mint, philosophy is just works.
Which why it's the best distro for those starting out and those who want a stable system. That's why it's best for your grandmas and grandpas

Every time I come here I see some stupid shit with Linux

>>107829369
>BTRFs is still considered experimenta
Citation needed?
>>107829387
Ext4 just works until you're OP asking why you're using over a hundred gigabytes on system restore points.

>>107829404
I'm on Mint Ext as well and don't have that issue, though I do my timeshifts to another drive.

>>107829387
Linux Mint just works until you want to right click a hard drive lol

>>107828644
>Enable automatic backups
>Get mad when the backups take too much disk space
What did he mean by this?

>>107829408
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>>107829404
>Citation needed?
Ask AI, it'll give you all of the links

>>107829428
>Ask AI
Yeah, no.

>>107829431
Fill your drive to 100%
You'll find out how it's still experimental

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>>107829428
>Ask AI

>>107829440
>Fill your drive to 100%
No, no I don't think I will.

>>107829443
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Btrfs/en#:~:text=While%20it%20is%20true%20that%20Btrfs%20is%20still%20considered%20experimental%20and%20is%20growing%20in%20stability%2C%20the%20time%20when%20Btrfs%20will%20become%20the%20default%20filesystem%20for%20Linux%20systems%20is%20getting%20closer.

>>107829440
seems like a non issue to me
> You will get ENOSPC error and your btrfs filesystem will degrade to read-only. You will not be able to make any new writes, which includes METADATA and SYSTEM. This means you will not be able to run a balance, delete files or add new devices to your btrfs filesystem. You might still be able to recover your data, but your filesystem is practically toast and you need to start with a new array.

>>107829446
Pull the power while it's running then and writing to your drive
>>107829454
>>but your filesystem is practically toast and you need to start with a new array.
Kek, did you read it yourself?

>>107829468
>Pull the power while it's running then and writing to your drive
2007 bugs are irrelevant.

>>107829468
so what? you just can't delete shit it's fine you have other drives to migrate to, right?

>>107829481
Not everyone does.
Also if it's junk that can be deleted why not allow it?
Windows of all things allows you to delete files.

>>107829495
>Also if it's junk that can be deleted why not allow it?
the fs literally can't because it needs to write stuff to be able to delete files

>>107829152
>I don't think that's safe.
NTA
>safe
Bi-monthly is certainly a standard frequency between scheduled backups
>When a nvidia driver fails, it takes many weeks until I decide to play a game that breaks it
>game that breaks it
The game(you just lost) breaks a system package? No irony or sarcasm, what the hell does this mean? Are you saying that, at least as often as every second month, you encounter errors with a game you want to play related to the nvidia driver you are using? Do you "play a game that breaks it" whereby you must update the driver to make it work? Unless you are encountering errors, maybe you should refrain from making changes to the nvidia driver package. The dangerous operation is making changes to your system packages, which is presumably what you're trying to mitigate via scheduled backups.

apt mark hold <nvidia-dogshit-67>

apt will not automatically mark nvidia-dogshit-69 for an update.

man apt-mark

>>107829503
It should become read-only at 99% then.
And report as 100% to users, so users can delete files.
Sometimes linux devs amaze me. They never think what regular user will encounter.

>>107829061
Fedora doesn't include codecs by default. Next time try ultramarine, it's fedora+.

>>107829504
wow imagine not failing to understad natural language this hard
ESL or just retarded, call it

>>107829520
feel free to open a pr at btrfs devs :)

>>107829531

>flaming faggot is actually correct, I am retarded for posting in a Mint thread
Yeah, haha! ^_^ Don't know what I was thinking anon, don't mind me. This stuff can be pretty complicated.

>>107829533
Where are all the suse redhat billions are going though? DEI?

>>107829533
Don't have an account. Open one up for me.
You probably already have an account.

>>107828644
idk have you considered configuring timeshift not to take snapshots every 5 minutes?

>>107829526
Is it immutable like bazzite?

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>>107828644
>make snapshots (which no one said you have to do)
>complain they take up space (?)
>this means that the kernel (?) is bad somehow
im confused

>>107829656
No.

>>107828644
>timeshift
n00b
use snapper and btrfs
go back to fucking reddit too

Wait he's not using btrfs
Oh dear

>>107828644
Just wait until your hard drive is gummed up by old Linux kernel images the system keeps around "just in case", without telling you, without explaining why or how you may want to use them, and no way to clean them up except mucking around in the terminal. Just wait until your hard drive gets so gummed up it corrupts your bootloader and now you DEFINITELY have to muck around in the terminal to fix it. Except you can't be arsed and just let it sit for 9 months like a brick of shame, a non-testament to Linux's desktop readiness. Just wait.

>>107831111
are we going to pretend that windows doesn't have this problem?

>>107828644
>and I found out that my timeshift snapshots take up way more space than the rest of the things (if you don't count home, which isn't being backed up)
>one snapshot takes up 128GB and the other 7GB.
So what was the problem?

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>Illegal criminal taco language

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>>107829061
how did you fumble a step by step tutorial like that