Thanks for the clarification, it make sense indeed, specially if you don’t come from a long term Unix background.

Today Linux world feels more and more unnecessarily complicated somehow. I am getting old.

I see that containers get lot of love, but really setting up wireguard is writing a text config file, why would you need containers for that?

Wire guard + some nft tables or ip tables rules is a much better solution.

Ssh on itself can do the port forward part but for the routing you still need the above mentioned rules. In addition, ssh will not autoreconnect if anything happens and you need to add autossh or some other solution to keep it rolling.

LFS is great, I started with it 25 years ago (not joking, it was GCC 2.9 time)

But quickly discovered Gentoo and been there since that time. LFS is not maintainable, Gentoo is the good of LFS plus perfect maintainability.

The idea rocks… Love it!

… Something that added to a Gentoo distribution would be amazing …

Msata and ssd, they are both sata and ssd.

Maybe one is faster because its newer or so, but there shouldn’t be much difference. Its not nvme, its msata.

I would slap the two disks in Linux software raid1 to leverage drive failure and use an external disk for backups, maybe over the network (local or remote).

If you don’t want to waste 50% of your space, use one disk as home, the other as root&boot&swap (is swap even a good idea? Maybe zram). Any extra space on the other dunnow… Mybe additional home space?

Never had issues. Both with nvidia and Intel cards.

I fully agree with you…

Its just complex.

I hate it for my Android device maintainer role much more than my Linux admin role…

On Android, its a fucking mess between vendor stuff and system stuff. But not for selinux itself, but for the mess that vendors often do.

I think you got it wrong. Nft is replacing iptables. Ufw is only a frontend.

Actually, your uoyabled might just be a wrapper on nft.

Gentoo lover and long time user here, OpenRC only.

Feel free to pm/DM me for any question in general.

I use Genkernel, works like a charm.

Linux From Scratch rulez!

Migrate from Nix to Linux From Scratch!

Ha, home has been traditionally always on a separate drive. That’s the reason why root user has the home under /root and not /home/root, so that it can login even if the home drive didn’t Mount.

As a curiosity, even /usr was traditionally on a separate drive and that’s why critical binaries and libraries where under /bin and /lib while all non critical stuff under /usr. It is called “split-usr”.

Nowadays /usr is always on the same drive as root, and we moved to a “merge-usr” approach where stuff under /lib and /bin is a symlink into /usr/lib and /usr/bin.

Because when HDDs where 50mb in size, even that small binary file counted as big :)

Hey, you forget about Gentoo Linux!

The real distro for newbies… (Provided the newbies are expert cs graduated and crazy nerds…)

All depends on what a beginner is… Not all beginners are tech illiterates or people who only want to use office.

Thanks for the fun read! You made my day.

And in a lifetime on linux I never noticed the Ctrl+y stuff.

I don’t see anything wrong here. Ram is supposed to be always as full as possible.

What is not needed by running programs should be full of disk pages cached. A system with lots of free ram is oversized or abnormal.

Also, today’s kernels require swap space. On disk is a must for a server, and maybe consider even zram.

Having swap will allow the kernel to organize it’s memory usage even better.

Don’t over think ram as that is a field in which you will be wrong and the kernel will be right 99%.

… Or you learn how to download, configure, build and deploy your kernel build…

Can be fun!

Keep on your “windows mindset”, won’t be very good on Linux i guess.

Maybe a fresh install could help if you made too much of a mess, who knows.

Still won’t fix your problems unless you find a way to address the issues. Maybe post them here so that we could help.

I think you are addressing the issues wrong.

Unsupported hardware is a reality in Linux, even if I didn’t find any in the last 10+ years, my needs are much more limited.

Controllers do work just fine, as well as Bluetooth, in my experience. Maybe share some issues and let’s see why.

Troubleshooting in Linux means understand why stuff don’t work as you expect, not copypasta 50 different solutions. There are 50 solutions because there are 100 ways to do stuff and different distros and versions out there. The “unified” experience is from the windows world, not the Linux world.

Nvidia is a known issue on Linux, prrprietary drivers kind of sucks and there are no good open ones, at least for newish nvidia cards. But again, my experience with nvidia has always been very good, with proprietary drivers.

Steam, I used it trough wine to run windows games on Linux, with good success (1 game, so YMMV), and I found it amazing that it was even possible to do. But never used controllers

This is one of the most spot-on replies in this thread. Thanks! I think what you wrote is basically correct.

Only people who cares on how the basics is Linux stays compatible and fully free (as in freedom). But that’s fine, as far as systemd can be optional.