Linux hobbyist, Machinist and tinkerer

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!English
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    16 hours ago

    I am somewhat in the same boat, but more gentoo sided. For the main repo they killed mkstage4 because its outdated and insecure. So like you i wanted to backup my data (my gentoo install) to my nas or local storage. Rsync is the magic bullet for this. You can use ssh to securley transfer data to or from the server. And it automate it via a cron job (i suggest fcron) for a automatic timed backup/sync. Now i will add, rysnc can be used as a backup. But as the name implies it syncs data from one pc to the other. So if you break your desktop and it syncs to your server. Your SOLPDQ, thats only if you automate it tho.

    And for the services id reccomend making a directory and adding all the services to a group, which owns the directory. Or the more lazy solution, which is probably frowned uponed. But you can rsync your docker container data to a directory where it has permissions to copy/sync.

    Id highly recommend Rsync tho and just syncing offsite to another computer

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•QustionsEnglish
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    16 days ago

    1.Theres dash to dock extentions to make it have a task bar like windows or mac, aswell as wigets for the top bar.

    1. It is mostly true, some obscure laptops dont have everything working out of the box for alot of distros. And require lots of tinkering with drivers and kernel modules.

    3.if you want to go ultra bear bones, theres alpine linux thats alot like android, but doesnt run android and is usally used for network appliances. Aswell as arch linux which installs base packages and is completely bare bones.

    Then theres the manual side of linux There gentoo which is a source distro, meaning everything is built from source code and must be manually enabled and setup. Its great for low power hardware but you need to read alot of documents on the wiki.

    Then theres the F all Linux from scratch, It is what you think.

    1. Usually you need root to uninstall, packages unless its flatpak.

    5.No root is the first account made on your system without root being made nothing would work its the equivalent of system 32 for windows.

    1. Switching DE is super simple. Find which one you want in your package manager and install that package. After that when you get to the login page it should show up in the sessions tab or gear icon for gnome. And simple select your DE and login.

    2. Wayland is a new display protocal that fixes and improves on previous technology such as x11 and xorg. Docker is Containerization The best way to explain it is. Your main distro is a truck and a docker container is having a linux distribution in a box. Docker containers are usually purpose built for services which run a preconfigured distribution for that purpose.

    Also no problem helping out other, we all gotta start somewhere!

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Niche Distro Users: Why?English
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    22 days ago

    Gentoo linux, the main reason is ive tried many distros, which to alot of there credit worked pretty well for 99% of stuff. But like for example bazzite somthing broke upstream to where because of how OCI works and it layers systems. It takes Silverblue and adds alot of packages to become Bazzite and then my repo stripped out stuff i didnt want. But it became A NIGHTMARE when your builds fail and you cant figure out why. And its because of somthing upstream. And you cannot build/update because upstream brokey. And like with NixOS which i still daily on my main rig, but gentoo on everything else. Is really powerful but the immutability gets in your way for some things and it takes alot of time to adapt scripts or troubleshoot. So i ended up installing gentoo on my other computers because they do simple tasks, i dont half to worry about breakage because of snapper and stable channel (at least on the NAS) And its alot of fun to turn a live CD into a OS that has only what you want in it. SystemD or OpenRC, hardened toolchains or normal? And distcc and binhost are S tier

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Coreboot: Pros and ConsEnglish
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    26 days ago

    T440P + libreboot + gentoo, user here Libre boot works great. i had to flash it to my laptop using a raspi. For almost all linux distros it works great. The only i have had problems with booting is haiku and vanilla OS orchid. The screen res borks and super small and duplicated, So i cant install Vanilla OS. and haiku at the moment doesnt support sea bios.

    Other than those 2 use cases, its been perfect. For alot of distro trying/hoping

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.English
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    1 month ago

    For the its less than 1% maybe. For the the reason of there is to many distributions for us to support. Thats utter BS, just support at least rhel or debian if not just MAKE A FLATPAK.

    for context i got lightburn running on my t440p with libreboot runing gentoo linux. I installed lightburn through there appimage and it works great! Im fine if they wanna drop outlandishly niece distros like triquel or hanna montana linux. But why linux as a whole!

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