Linux

48356 readers

408 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml

nooter692@lemmy.ml

MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml

cyclohexane@lemmy.ml

d3Xt3r

102

That Computer Scientist - Nix is the New Arch! (thatcomputerscientist.com)

submitted 1 year ago by uthredii@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

89 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Felix@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've now been daily driving Arch for ~1 year or so. I mean, it works. I've only re-installed it once when I bought a new nvme drive. But except that. I've kinda gotten used to everything. Nix seems so cool. Everything in a config file, like what? 80k packages in the repo? But Arch is just so comfy, I know how pacman works, everything is up and running perfectly. I've installed CachyOS's x86-64-v3 repos for max performance. My system just works.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, that's the feeling Ubuntu/Fedora users had when hearing how Arch would solve all their inexistant problems.

The bottom line is, there are a lot of Linux distros, most of them are great, so if you're happy with your choice then so be it!

[–] Felix@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. You just have to get used to knowing that there is always going to be a distro which will be "better" than you current one.

[–] brejela@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Funnily enough, when I upgraded from a SATA SSD to an NVME, I didn't have to reinstall anything. Instead I just moved the LVM LVs to the NVME and rewrote the boot config. Just booted up from the existing installation without having to install anything.
Of course, tune2fs reports the right age for the filesystem:

# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroupSSD-ssdvol | grep created
Filesystem created:       Thu Jun 16 10:33:49 2022 << This used to be the root fs, inside the SATA SSD
# tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/VolGroupSAT-satvol | grep created
Filesystem created:       Mon Nov 14 14:13:49 2022 << When I bought the NVME and created a new VG just for the SATA drive