Molecular0079 @ Molecular0079 @lemmy.world

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I get the ease of use aspect, but having just come out of a lengthy recovery process with a broken QNAP TS-453 Pro, I can safely say I am done with turn-key NAS solutions. Having to be beholden to a specific company for hardware upgrades and replacements, all while paying an exorbitant markup for subpar hardware, no longer gives me peace of mind about the security of my data. I just personally think the ability to do what you want with both the hardware and the software storing your data is key to long-term data storage. You just never know when these companies will go out of business, start engaging in shitty business practices, or, like in the case of QNAP, swap to a custom LVM layout that makes it impossible to open up in standard Linux distros, complicating data recovery.

Security updates and software upgrades are easy, you get good software packages for free

That may very well be true, but I doubt it'd come close to the amount of software you can get with basically any standard Linux distro. There's also TrueNAS and Unraid if you're looking for something that's more NAS like.

Does BTRFS include Raid support? I don't have much experience with it. The most I did once was recover a snapshot.

It does have RAID support but its RAID 5 and 6 are BROKEN! The devs themselves do not recommend using these. If you need RAID 5 and 6 and you absolutely want to use BTRFS, you'll have to go with mdraid and then put BTRFS on top, but then you lose a lot of the BTRFS self-healing capabilities. Personally for RAID 5 and 6, I still recommend ZFS's RAIDz. It's quite easy to setup. I have a DIY NAS with an OS drive running BTRFS and a storage pool consisting of 4x 4TB SSDs running in RAIDz1.

Ever since I switched to UEFI boot, Windows has never taken over the bootloader. With MBR, it happened all the damn time and was super annoying. I think as long as you're not relying on the default/fallback UEFI boot location you'll be fine.

If I have a Ryzen 3900x, how would I go about checking this for myself? I can see the patch_level (0x08701030) in my journalctl but not sure which family I should be looking at. It doesn't seem to appear anywhere in that list you linked though.

I am actually surprised this wasn't already a thing. Glad to see so many p-state improvements coming in.

Being able to restart the Wayland compositor without killing your apps is frickin awesome!!!

Two reasons actually:

1. After getting really familiar with EndeavourOS, I was just curious about how hard an actual Arch install was. Then I found out about the official archinstall tool bundled in the ISO, decided to try it out, and it gave me a relatively barebones KDE desktop that was super snappy and that I could expand however I wanted. It just felt nice so I decided to stick with it. Now I am so used to using archinstall on my many Arch deployments (desktop, DIY NAS, home theater PC, work laptop, Surface Pro 7) that it really just feels like home.
2. After Antergos shut down, I briefly used Anarchy installer. When that also shutdown, I became a bit wary about the longevity of these smaller community-driven Arch-derivatives. I don't have anything against them and it's super cool that these projects exist to expand the appeal of Arch to more users, but personally I wanted to be familiar with something that I knew would exist for a really long time and wouldn't close down due to the developers getting too tired of doing maintenance, which is a very real thing in FOSS. I am constantly getting new devices and installing Arch on them, so finding a more permanent solution that I knew was always going to be there was important to me.

So you admit that it's super rare you encounter these bad Manjaro users that have offended you so much, and then decide to make generalizations about the entire Manjaro community and the distro? Yes, you absolutely ARE the problem.

Let me put it this way. If in real life you went into a crowd of people, called them all stupid for being there, and told a few of them to go fuck themselves, you would get punched in the face. Just because you're on the Internet doesn't make this kind of behavior okay.

From this comment thread, I can already tell you simply don't understand why anyone would use a computer in a different way than you do. It's absolutely fine to be opinionated about how you want to run your personal machines, but to tell others so vehemently that they're wrong for wanting a different computing experience other than the one you've "deemed" correct...well that's just silly.

It's not wrong for someone to want something in between, say for example Fedora or Ubuntu, and Arch. Heck, the reason why so many Arch-derivatives exist is because a lot of people want it. You telling other people that they either go full-Arch or they're stupid IS gatekeeping.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger I guess.

It's a solid choice for a lot of the reasons you mentioned. I used it for a long time before switching over to regular Arch and I still use it as a live USB to recover my Arch install or to rollback to an older BTRFS snapshot.

I will say though that it is sorta barebones enough it essentially becomes a gateway drug to regular Arch. If you're curious, you might want to check out the official archinstall installer that's bundled with the official Arch iso. It really makes it quite easy to get a working Arch install up and running.

there is no graphical package management.

You can use yay to install either pamac-aur or octopi from the AUR and that will give graphical package management. Yeah it isn't provided out of the box, but its a quick one-liner to set it up so it isn't too bad IMHO.

Apps do that, including some web app.

I don't just mean grouping communities client side though. I mean super-communities that a mod or admin can curate and that other people can share and subscribe to. Out of curiosity, which apps have you been using that have this feature?

It’s that somebody lied to me for hours

So you let one person define your opinion of an entire community and distro? Mmm okay.

they started spewing the exact same bullshit name calling that you’re using right now

If multiple people are calling you out on your behavior, then maybe its time to look inward instead of being so defensive. Just look at this convo. Right off the bat you've called an entire community stupid for having preferences different than you, shat on a distro you don't even use as your daily driver, and then told me to go fuck myself twice. This is just classic "I am not wrong, everybody else is wrong" behavior. Check your toxicity dude.

You simultaneously complain that you're being called an elitist gatekeeper and in the same damn breath call everyone else who doesn't share your opinions of Arch-purism stupid. That is a textbook example of gatekeeping dude.

The reason Arch users all end up like this is that we've all tried to help someone, been run around for hours, and then finally figured out that the problem is caused by some stupid thing that Manjaro did

This is a made up situation. I am an Arch user and I have never been so incensed about derivative differences that I felt the need to restrict help to only pure Arch users like I am running some product support hotline. Please, give me a break. Why do we have to be so damned picky about who we help? There's always going to be differences between my system and another person's system which can make debugging confusing, even between two separate pure-Arch systems, but that's part of the fun! And so what if they're using Manjaro? A ton of problems in the Linux space are distro-agnostic and more due to wrong configuration, etc. If you don't want to help them, that's fine, just move on instead of pretending like their entire community committed some cardinal sin against you. Can RHEL users not help out Fedora users? What about Ubuntu vs Mint? Is it really so damned hard to be like "Hey, I can't figure out your problem. It could be that there's some differences between Arch and Manjaro" and just move on with your life?

It's fine if you don't want to contribute to these kinds of things, but insisting Arch-derivative users stop using them and or be shunned from interaction is gatekeeping to be perfectly frank. There are many reasons why some people might prefer an Arch-derivative. Just because you can't see them doesn't make them any less valid for other people who have different usecases and preferences than you.

I also think instances just need to have more sane urls. It sounds silly but like it or not branding does matter. Instances like beehaw and sh.itjust.works just rub me the wrong way during first impressions. Even some of my friends who I've tried to introduce to Lemmy are just like..."what the fuck kinda website are you making me go to?" I am not surprised that lemmy.world is big, partly because the URL actually sounds official.

We also need super-communities that pull in content from multiple communities/instances, better multi-instance search, and a way to migrate between instances before the masses will be okay with smaller instances.

On my PC, 2 updates broke it as it wouldn’t start up the DE.

Well, did you figure out what caused the issue? There's many things besides the quality of a distro that could cause this, especially on an Arch or Arch derivative. Many Arch users have complained about their DE occasionally failing to boot up due to some random update that broke something for their specific config. Just saying that this doesn't prove much. It could have been Manjaro, it could have easily also been a bad upstream update or even PEBKAC.

A few days ago, my standard Arch system upgraded to a version of pipewire-pulse that created duplicate audio devices on every audio profile change. I could have easily just said, "Arch is a shitty distro, they can't even get audio devices working correctly", but that would be misleading. Anecdotal statements like yours are too vague to prove a point about any distro.

Devs have complained about them distributing non-master branch features that weren’t sufficiently tested or released and got their issue tracker flooded.

This isn't an issue specific to Manjaro. This also happens to any upstream project that are shipped by downstream. Many distros ship unofficial patches to upstream software, this is NOT new.

You may love it and great for you, but people won’t give you free reign to advise a bad distro

I don't use it anymore as I am on regular Arch now, but during my time using Manjaro for about a year, I genuinely didn't see much issue with it, at least no more than what I've been experiencing with Arch. I am just annoyed at how some people had one or two bad experiences and then are just jumping on the hate bandwagon with nothing much to back it up.

I think the only thing I find "ugly" about the default Lemmy UI is the green buttons and inconsistent border radii on them. Everything else looks rather decent and very functional.

I don't think it really matters as long as you pay attention to both Arch news and the pacman logs. Don't delay on resolving those issues and you'll be fine.

Personally, I update every day because I think its fun to see new software. I also have snapper trigger a automatic snapshot every time there's a pacman change. Haven't run into any issues so far.

I think as long as you're paying attention to the pacman logs and resolving your .pacnew's, you'll be okay. I've had HTPC systems that I haven't upgraded in over a year be absolutely fine. Sure it required some minor manual fixes, but none of them surprised me because pacman told me about them or Arch news had a bulletin about it.

I actually have a small Intel NUC paired with a touchscreen monitor that I basically use as a extremely large tablet for my disabled sister to use and I only update that every time I come home (every 3 months or so). It has been upgrading flawlessly for over 2 years.

I am confused why the driver doesn't just communicate to the game that XeSS isn't supported and have it disable the setting.