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Yeah, Linux distros using something like Discord always seemed very odd to me. I mean okay, if you cater to gamers then I guess it makes sense, but you won't catch me doing that. Lemmy is the only social media I have anymore, the rest is just braindead and bot-infested.
I finally finished reading the whole page at https://pu-239.org/
Pretty awesome. I wanted to do it earlier, but life happens. Now that the weekend is coming up, I want to give it a shot.
After reading the page, I could not find any mention of the home directory.
Since I do distro-hop quite a bit, I have a disk just for my home partition that I (almost) never format so that I can keep my files there and move around distros without a worry.
How would you suggest I partition the root/boot/EFI disk for installing your distro? I usually keep a 1GB ext4 boot partition, a 2GB EFI partition and then the rest is a BTRFS partition for root (the disk for home is a single BTRFS partition). I know it sounds like overkill, but that disk is 1TB so I'm not worried about that and like to leave room for any potential storage weirdness.
Would you make any changes to that logic if you were in my shoes?
I was just about to go to bed so apologies for the short answer, I can elaborate tomorrow if you wish. The home folder, including your settings/configs will survive, there's no difference in the way you organize files to a regular Arch install. The partitioning is preset and non-customizable (for now at least). So no need to worry, you simply install it with the hardcoded presets and use it like you would use your current install! I will likely set up a kind of wiki page to make this more sorted and readable than the current bloated drop-down menu so I can cover this in more detail in the future.
Edit: aah, I overread the first time that you have a home folder that you keep. In your case I would back it up on another drive/cloud first and then try one of the installer options that fit you the most. I should get the option for manual partitioning up and running, but if you don't do it it exactly like the installer expects, it will fail, which is why I only defined three pre-set options.
Oh, cool. Thanks for replying. I did install it in a VM for now. Now that I know what my options are, I can take it from there.
I won't be able to back up all my data from home in a way that males sense right now outside of my laptop, so Barr metal won't be happening until next weekend.
It feels pretty solid right now. I'm going to replicate my KDE configuration from the laptop onto the P-239 VM see how it behaves.
That's nice to hear! My personal feedback and the feedback from people that have tried it so far seems way better than I anticipated, noone seems to have any big issues. A little more choice during the install, a little less weird messages during updates (nothing critical, just looks odd) and some AUR packages that don't install in a way that conform to the Arch guidelines (which is more on them than on the OS) and that's about all the negatives.
I'll be on vacation for a week and only take my underpowered Thinkpad with me so I'll be working on some little qol changes here and there to bring a more polished version in a few short weeks. If noone finds anything big that needs fixing I might even be able to justify bumping the version number of the next release to 0.1.0 instead of 0.0.2 since it's way more stable than I dared to expect.
I like what I'm seeing here, since you are actually covering a niche that nobody else seems to be covering (maybe they are and I just haven't seen it).
I find value in all this. I am certainly no Dev, but have enough experience with many different Linux distros to at least serve as a guinea-pig for good projects. Enjoy your vacation, I'll be trying to break your distro while you're away.
One thing I believe this could benefit from, if possible, is a way to discuss the project in real time, Matrix, IRC, anything really. Just a thought.
I appreciate it! I'd be especially interested in knowing if there are any locations/directories that the user expects to be carried through deployments or to be writeable that get deleted/overwritten during updates or are read-only in the first place. Finding that would perhaps also fix the issues with some AUR packages not wanting to install. Ideally you can e-mail me your findings to the address on my Codeberg profile and I could write on the code during the vacation and actually test in a VM on my main PC once I get back.
Regarding the platform to discuss on, someone else asked a similar thing today so I'm just pasting my reply here "Hmm, I’m undecided. Me personally, I couldn’t handle running a forum due to my autism, that would burn me out instantly. Having one entirely community run with me occasionally lurking in like I do here would probably be the only realistic option."