Ah, ok, understood then, it didn’t fit my use-case or workflow, it works for others, my bad, appreciate the correction!

fsarchiver is very nice. Not fast on pulling out files, but, I mean, it’s infinitely faster than tar.

Only quit using it so much because zfs-send is the real big hammer.

Best part is it can regenerate partitions, or whatever, or you can restore a larger partition to a smaller one, all the cool permutations assuming the files actually fit. Can re-write users and permissions if you like, all the bells.

https://www.fsarchiver.org/

Support for basic file attributes (permissions, ownership, …)
Support for basic file-system attributes (label, uuid, block-size) for all linux file-systems
Support for multiple file-systems per archive
Support for extended file attributes (they are used by SELinux)
Support for all major Linux filesystems (extfs, xfs, btrfs, reiserfs, etc)
Support for FAT filesystems (in order to backup/restore EFI System Partitions)
Experimental support for cloning ntfs filesystems
Checksumming of everything which is written in the archive (headers, data blocks, whole files)
Ability to restore an archive which is corrupt (it will just skip the current file)
Multi-threaded lzo, gzip, bzip2, lzma/xz compression: if you have a dual-core / quad-core it will use all the power of your cpu
Lzma/xz compression (slow but very efficient algorithm) to make your archive smaller.
Support for splitting large archives into several files with a fixed maximum size
Encryption of the archive using a password. Based on blowfish from libgcrypt.

Oh, also you can always copy it over to an iso image and mount it, or a qcow or raw image of some kind for loop mount.

Hey, didn’t know about this: https://www.linux.com/news/mounting-archives-fuse-and-archivemount/

Yes we should, but reddit has been taking them down as spam, A LOT.

I don’t know about the sidebar, there’s a lot of discussion from mods about that, the threat to remove mods for other reason is probably part of the concern.

I haven’t been following, but that’s actually good to hear, proxmox needs a better ui.

LXD, I suppose for the migration, but for any more complex orchestration I think you’ve moving to k8s or something more serious, LXD just has an odd “not enough but too much” feature set for me, I like things either push-button, or let me do it, this is kind of both.

Could not agree more. My only argument in favor of suse is that they’ve been here since the beginning and never fucked about.

Thats a rare record in any tech game.

But many choices always beats 1, maybe somebody sane should make an enterprise debian, I’m just worried they might somehow manage to kill the golden goose, debian’s sanity is critical to linux’s viability as a non-bullshit os.

Love kde, but it needs to get that bloat down. Still snappy though.

Used it once or twice then stopped, prefer raw lxc or even just manually creating namespaces if I want control.

Never quite understood the point, the additional polish seemed fairly minimal from a utility pov.

They should take over proxmox or something, give themselves a complete story.

Its my main workstation and it’s pure debian: everything you need, and it just works.

Using an amdgpu and it was probably the easiest install I’ve ever done. No snap bullshit either, kde came up first go.

Debian is taking the unique approach of “not shooting themselves in the dick by trying to push features everybody hates”.

Probably both, the drivers are almost the same, just need a kernel flag.

If so that’s great for everybody… well almost everybody period, most notebooks have Intel gpus even if they have Optimus too.

If this rhel bs leads to suse taking over dominance, then amen.

It will be nice to have a new enterprise Linux overlord that isn’t a massive bag of dicks.

Cloud systems invented this concept called ‘declarative environments’ basically you describe the software in a container or os and the container orchestrator builds it for you. The same every time, you just give it a recipe.

Nixos is that for desktops.

It takes away a lot of the bullshit, experimentation and breaking of a classic os.

That being said, I always considered that the fun part, so ymmv.

It’s like docker for server applications, it takes care of everything for you behind the scenes and just works (ish).

https://bluetile.org/

Not perfect, but flakey in places, but it does a lot of what you want, it’s tiled gnome.