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analrapist said:
I generated a brief (little over 3 minute) video of an artix-mate-runit install.
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LMAO. Tried this with Devuan. At around 38 minutes of install, it asked me to choose my init system. I chose Runit. It told me to insert the medium I was using. I will not be attempting this again. Sorry for the bad crop, but this shit pissed me off so much you just get my Artix crop parameters.

 
I hate the default menu logos for all of the DEs so I should probably make some sort of custom icon I just move from install to install and use for the menus for all of them.
 
(Physiognamy Czech) said:
I also need Wayland since I have monitors with different refresh rates. Would Mint still be a better option even with my hardware reqs? Any insight would be appreciated.
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You've been taken in by wayland propaganda FYI. I am at this moment using Xlibre (and last week was using Xorg) with 3 monitors all with different refresh rates.

(Physiognamy Czech) said:
Why does Fedora get hate besides the gay name? And are the troon allegations just the typical tranny - software dev correlation?
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Because it is from redhat a giant corporation that is the source of a lot of awful shit including pushing troon shit and trying to kill Xorg by doing things like spreading propaganda like it doesn't support multiple monitors with different refresh rates.

(Physiognamy Czech) said:
Would Mint still be a better option even with my hardware reqs? Any insight would be appreciated.
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"Drivers" for graphics cards are going to come from mesa so whatever distro you pick basically just needs to have a new enough mesa version for your card. I don't know how old mint's mesa package is so you would need to check. If you need new hardware support the obvious suggestion would be a rolling release distro to have the newest packages.

I would recommend Artix but I shill them constantly as it's what I use. I would strongly recommend against fedora. Going from one megacorp to another slightly-less-bad-for-now megacorp seems kinda pointless.
 
is it possible to install windows onto a portable ssd and then boot that into a VM? I wan to access windows for a few specific programs but i dont want to use my actual drive space for it

something like this

alternatively how safe is it to pass my current windows ssd into a VM? i dont want to bork my windows install.
 
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(Physiognamy Czech) said:
I just built an amd system with a 9070 and other newish parts, and I read that Mint might have problems with that
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SCV said:
"Drivers" for graphics cards are going to come from mesa so whatever distro you pick basically just needs to have a new enough mesa version for your card. I don't know how old mint's mesa package is so you would need to check.
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FWIW my vanilla as vanilla can be Mint installation is on mesa 25.1.3 which is a couple of months old and apparently a bug fix to revert an issue with RDNA4 9000 series cards introduced with 25.1.2. So should be OK but caveat emptor and all that.
 
The Saltening said:
is it possible to install windows onto a portable ssd and then boot that into a VM? I wan to access windows for a few specific programs but i dont want to use my actual drive space for it

something like this
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Yes. You would tell the VM client to boot from that disk instead of a disk image which is most common.
The Saltening said:
alternatively how safe is it to pass my current windows ssd into a VM? i dont want to bork my windows install.
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Make a backup and try it. I don't see why it would cause issues aside from maybe Windows being locked to your motherboard but I don't think it wouldn't work and it shouldn't break anything but I haven't had to deal with Windows like that in a long time.
 
The Saltening said:
is it possible to install windows onto a portable ssd and then boot that into a VM? I wan to access windows for a few specific programs but i dont want to use my actual drive space for it

something like this

alternatively how safe is it to pass my current windows ssd into a VM? i dont want to bork my windows install.
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A 500 gb ssd costs $50.
 
Aidan said:
Make a backup and try it. I don't see why it would cause issues aside from maybe Windows being locked to your motherboard but I don't think it wouldn't work and it shouldn't break anything but I haven't had to deal with Windows like that in a long time.
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Windows tends to get really confused when hardware changes, it might work but often it wont without beating it with a stick.
 
Banana Hammock said:
A 500 gb ssd costs $50.
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see. the problem is i have a bunch of drives. all for my old windows install. and because im a data hoarder i refuse to change them. i have no more space for drives.

i will probably need to remedy this because im sure my linux drive will fill up eventually.

i guess i could buy a big ass ssd and transport all my windows things onto one drive. We are talking terabytes of data. mostly steam games tbh.

my main thing is i want my windows to be untouched. but its spread across like 5 drives. maybe i will transport my windows into a completely different pc idk.

TL: DR i have no more expansion room unless i start reclaiming windows drives.
 
The Saltening said:
see. the problem is i have a bunch of drives. all for my old windows install. and because im a data hoarder i refuse to change them. i have no more space for drives.

i will probably need to remedy this because im sure my linux drive will fill up eventually.

i guess i could buy a big ass ssd and transport all my windows things onto one drive. We are talking terabytes of data. mostly steam games tbh.

my main thing is i want my windows to be untouched. but its spread across like 5 drives. maybe i will transport my windows into a completely different pc idk.

TL: DR i have no more expansion room unless i start reclaiming windows drives.
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And I thought my two SSD split shenanigans were autistic :stress:
 
analrapist said:
s6 vs runit
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There's no fucking way runit beats s6 at anything except ease of use. s6 autistically precompiles service dependencies so it doesn't have to do it at runtime, while runit just launches everything in parallel, most of the time through a shell script. Turns out having a bunch of services start then fail because some dependency isn't up yet is a waste of time and slows everything down.
 
Slav Power said:
And I thought my two SSD split shenanigans were autistic :stress:
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i tried isolating my windows install to one drive and then installed everything else everywhere else. and id order them by importance. so stuff i use a lot got the good drive and then stuff i rarely use or downloads got sent to the bulk hdd.

games got the SSDs with my favs being on an nvme and then stuff i played frequently but less often were on a sata ssd.

its a fuckin mess.
 
YOU ARE said:
I think customization/ricing has its place. Better navigation and faster app switching, for example, make interfacing with the steel behemoth on my desk less cumbersome. But Hyprland seems to be emblematic of this widely popular "style over substance" (ricing) culture. If I fullscreen their website so much shit is happening that my web browser begins lagging. It being written in C++ makes it at least serviceable, but for many other popular apps, e.g. Groomcord, that's just not the case. I'm not saying that we should go back to exclusively using cli tools, but most developers now use so much memory and processing power that I might as well fry an egg on my computer's heat sink. A lack of gradients never killed anybody, but at this point it seems that the price we paid for gradients is about to kill my computer.
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The thing I like about hyprland, isn't the animations, and eye candy. I don't mind it. I like that it's so extensible, without having to put in that much effort. Has quite a bit of choice from just the default keys built into it. It has the default dwindle layout, and a ton of configuration with that, I want to say you can manually tile with it. Or you can make it act like a dynamic tiler like dwm, or the window managers inspired by it. You get hyprctl, and if you start messing with the ipc options through that, you can make key binds, or window rules for just about anything you can possibly think about. Without needing to write code, outside of the normal configuration syntax.

That said. I've personally never noticed hyprland actually putting any extra strain on my computer. Especially if I'm not putting blur with 4 passes on everything being rendered. Which to it's credit, it does tend to handle a lot better than picom ever has for me. But no blur, disable animations, and I really don't notice it running much different than dwm, or i3, all things considered.

but also while I'm running it I use this.
Code: 
xwayland {
    enabled = false
}


also launching electron applications/browsers with this.

--ozone-platform-hint=auto

so I'm not running an extra xorg session on top of my wayland session. When it's really not necessary at this point.

The Saltening said:
is it possible to install windows onto a portable ssd and then boot that into a VM? I wan to access windows for a few specific programs but i dont want to use my actual drive space for it
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I would just boot straight from the drive. instead of trying to run it from a vm. unless you have a good reason not to. I would think you could just go into the bios and pick it as the drive to boot after plugging it in.

The Big Bad D said:
There's no fucking way runit beats s6 at anything except ease of use. s6 autistically precompiles service dependencies so it doesn't have to do it at runtime, while runit just launches everything in parallel, most of the time through a shell script. Turns out having a bunch of services start then fail because some dependency isn't up yet is a waste of time and slows everything down.
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openrc can actually be pretty decent in parallel mode. With the caveat, you will need to do some manual intervention to add one or two things in the depends function, potentially. If you notice some things aren't waiting like they should for other services. which is generally as easy as adding, dbus, or net to the end of the line, or adding something in the before line, or after line.
 
The Saltening said:
is it possible to install windows onto a portable ssd and then boot that into a VM? I wan to access windows for a few specific programs but i dont want to use my actual drive space for it

something like this

alternatively how safe is it to pass my current windows ssd into a VM? i dont want to bork my windows install.
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You can, it isn't super clearly explained and you would need to figure out how to identify the drive for KVM, I'd say you need to install VirtIO drivers for a significant speed improvement but I think if it's an existing install that might cause more problems then just leaving it at sata emulation
 
Through the magic of pcie passthrough, you can also just let Windows VMs access USB devices or drives, without driver shenanigans. Provided the IOMMU groups of your motherboard don't suck.
 
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