Lonewolfmcquade @ Lonewolfmcquade @lemmy.world

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I feel that. Windows gives me the creeps since 8.1. Recently I setup a new Win11 machine and it took all day to get everything configured including figuring out how to turn off all the telemetry and spyware. I'll use it for work but I don't even like it on my network.

Arch from scratch sounds like an adventure. But there are many good arch spins like Garuda that make it easy, no drama.

Well when I was testing out distros last year, I wanted updated KDE, Wayland, BTRFS, Snapper, full LUKS (including the boot partition) and I wanted it all somewhat complete and configured with a GUI installer. I had spent way too much time mucking around in the CLI with Fedora trying to get all of that and I was over it. Garuda just delivered. I didn't know much about Arch at that time but man, it just works so well. All the issues I had with Debian and Mint and Ubuntu and Fedora, they just aren't a problem with Arch. And Garuda has it all configured out of the box. I'm sure there's some bloat in it - stuff that's included that I don't need. But I'm just happy everything I want is in there and I don't need to figure it out

May be an unpopular opinion but I'm loving Garuda. I'm not a wizard and I needed something to just work with all the goodies. Garuda does it for me.

I use Garuda on my daily driver and I love it. I distro hopped for years and I'm finally home. It's not hard like trying to do your own Arch from scratch. It's like some super geek setup Linux for me with all the bells and whistles just the way I want it. I had to ditch the dragon theme and then it was perfect. And snapper is so well setup and integrated with Garuda, there's rarely a case where a clean install is warranted. I highly recommend it.

That makes sense. Mine is a Kenwood aftermarket unit so maybe its a Kenwood thing

I'd like to hear more about this. When I went to setup Auto on my vehicle, it demanded that I copy all contact information to the head unit, or it would not proceed with pairing and setup. That's when I just shrugged and disconnected my phone. Bluetooth works just fine for me

I had ghost touches on my old Motorola. I never could figure out any pattern or cause for the problem. But a restart seemed to resolve it

I totally agree with your take here. I'd also like to add that I went the Synology route and since it is restricted to my local network, it did not require the creation of an account. Seems like it's possible to be an anonymous Synology user for now.

I've had similar experiences moving to Linux on various machines. I don't yet understand the pattern. Why do some distros work better on some machines than others?

I have an original MS Surface Pro. Ubuntu works best on it, imo.

I have a 10 year old Asus laptop that has all kinds of seemingly random issues - currently on Mint but about to migrate to OpenSuse.

I have a 4 year old Dell laptop and it likes Garuda the best.

Go figure.

I love Ventoy for this reason. I can try 8 different distros till I find one that works best on a particular machine.

I think it's also pushing subscription based cloud services. To me, the SD card slot is a convenient backup target when away from home. It fits my 3-2-1 backup strategy. Without it, more people will consider backing up to paid cloud services, like how Apple does it.

For the record, I hate this trend. Hands off my sd slot and my 3.5mm jack. But I also want GrapheneOS or something similar. Can't have it all...

Bump for an update. What did you ultimately do?

I'm looking for a similar solution

This process sounds very flexible. Got a link about how to set this up?

I'd also like to learn how to do this but it seems like a steep learning curve for a non-expert user. If you have any resources to share to learn this kung fu, please post

I've tried a few times to use Timeshift to restore to a new disk. Once it worked without any issue. This last time it did not and I suspect grub just needs to be rebuilt. I've read that it is always possible but Timeshift certainly doesn't make it easy in every case

I do something similar but my live USB is just bootable Clonezilla. I'd like to hear more about why you use a live Ubuntu ssd.

Regarding Timeshift on btrfs, is the idea that Timeshift makes it easier to backup to a different disk versus using Snapper?

I'm also on btrfs and miss the wonders of Macrium Reflect. For now, in addition to Snapper, I've been using Clonezilla to make a disk image on occassion. I'm in the process of figuring out something like Vorta to replace that process.

Well said! I really enjoyed reading this post. I've been interested in this topic for over 20 years but I feel like you delivered a bleeding edge analysis of the current state of affairs much better than anything else I've read. In particular, this post and the supporting docs crystallized the difference between privacy and security for me. I'm interested in both but had taken it for granted that enhancing privacy always benefitted security. Now I see how my own personal desire for control over my systems does involve some trade-off with security. There is a lot of food for thought here!

Unfortunately, I don't appreciate any of the current options for a more secure desktop. I hate the direction Microsoft is taking Windows since 8.1. I'm familiar with the telemetry workarounds and found them to be volatile and fussy; it feels like I'm constantly swimming against the tide with them. And the new forced update paradigm is terrible. All too often their forced updates either remove functionality, control, or features, if not straight up break my system - worse than any Linux experience I've had. Not to mention forcing ads and "AI" into everything. Basically I don't want to be an obligate beta tester or constantly manage workarounds for "features" I didn't agree to. I could go on and on.

In my opinion, the Mac ecosystem is similarly terrible with respect to user control and transparency. I loved Mac back in the early 00s but since then I find them infuriating to use whenever I encounter a seemingly solvable problem. And I hate feeling trapped by a corporate ecosystem.

Google isn't much different from the other two, with the additional issues of privacy violations, incompetent (if not hostile) leadership and anti-consumer behavior.

Qubes sounds problematic at best but I may explore secureblue. I had a terrible time with Fedora when I gave it a go last year. Trying to encrypt the boot drive with BTRFS and Snapper was apparently beyond my patience.

I'd love to see an Arch based distro take up the task of creating a security and privacy focused spin. And I eagerly await the day that Graphene works well on devices other than Pixels. That would be ideal to me.

I've saved your post and will be re-reading it. I would vote to make this a sticky for the near term, if that were a thing. Thank you!

I remember reading a lot this past year about Mozilla fretting about their market share and trying to figure out how to grow their user base. Did I hallucinate that? Cuz their actions lately appear to be driving users away. Are they taking notes from Google or is there some other MBA making these brilliant changes?

I had bad experiences with Seagate between 2002 and 2009. Multiple, sudden, premature drive failures under ideal operating conditions. I haven't bought a Seagate drive in over 10 years.

WD enterprise grade hardware is still good for me, as of 2 years ago. Their customer service sucks but the hardware is still good

In general I tend to go for Toshiba or Hitachi (rebranded to a different name if I recall...) if I have a preference. I have some really old drives like 15+ years old still chugging along.

Bummer!!! Sucks for all of us. But I understand the dev wanting to move on with his life. Hope someone takes the reins! I would if I had those skills. DivestOS is such a great project. I was literally about to buy a new phone specifically to run DivestOS.