A little frustrated.
Reinstalled my laptop because I realized I picked the wrong file system like a dumdum and now I can't find a couple of things I had in the previous one.
One is a very cute icon with a pixelated Tux I used as my "start" button and the other is a gui to change plymouth.
And for some gosh darn reason plymouth refuses to change because of some missing amdgpu firmware mumbojumbo.

@raccoon oh that suxx ,, what fs did you pick ?

@fiore@brain.worm.pink
xfs, I wanted to try zfs but it's not an option and I'm way too lazy to do it manually.

@raccoon ntfs best file system !! /j

why do you need those ? is there a specific reason ?

@raccoon genuine question , i dont know much abt filesystems i just use btrfs on everything

@fiore@brain.worm.pink
zfs has some neat features, it supports snapshots you can use as backups. An update breaks your system? Using the bootloader you roll back to the previous working snapshot.
It also supports installing multiple os in the same partition, which I don't NEED but was very curious to try.
As for xfs, you won't notice much of a difference compared to ext4 tbh, but it is allegedly more reliable.

@fiore@brain.worm.pink
Also, xfs is a bit faster in writing/reading files but only supports increasing in size, when you wanna shrink it then sucks to be you, but I never need that, my system uses one drive for the system and a drive for home, with swap being a file, so if I want to resize swap to make it bigger that's what I'm gonna do.

@raccoon doesnt btrfs also do snapshots ? im just wondering bc i dont hear many ppl using it on servers for example , but like ,i dont rlly get why ? is it just because its “newer” ? thatd make sense actually

@fiore@brain.worm.pink
It does support that, suse uses btrfs by default, pretty nice file system but I was told zfs does the same thing better and I wanted to give it a shot.
Hell I don't even NEED it. I mean, mxlinux, the distro I was gonna install on it, is basically debian and is debian very likely to shit itself?

@raccoon haha yea makes sense , i just use btrfs bcs its the default on fedora

@fiore@brain.worm.pink
Fedora?

YO @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz GET A LOAD OF THIS GAL!

Just kidding, don't bully her, she's wonderful.

@fiore @raccoon yea its got most modern filesystem goodies, i honestly think it just has a bad reputation from being included in the kernel a way before it was ready for production use

@coolbean@brain.worm.pink @fiore@brain.worm.pink
It's a great fs tbh

@raccoon @getimiskon weeh i like fedora its so comfy ,,

@fiore@brain.worm.pink @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
rpm is a pain in the ass and dnf is slow as shit

@fiore@brain.worm.pink @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
I just can't take gnome seriously on desktop and by proxy any distro that has gnome as their main DE

@raccoon nah, i don't bully people for their distro of their choice anymore
@fiore

@dushman @raccoon @getimiskon yea dnf is kind a slow ig but , i update very frequently so i dont rlly notice , also i dont have many packages installed

@raccoon @getimiskon mhm , i dont dislik e gnome , its too heavy for me but as a comcept , and as a starting DE , its just fine . but yea i use hyprland and xfce as a fallback

@raccoon @fiore@brain.worm.pink @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
GNOME is the worst DE I've ever had the displeasure of using

@fiore@brain.worm.pink @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
It's horrible as a concept and in execution. The design is meant for braindead tablet toddlers.

@dushman @raccoon @getimiskon idk the state of Plasma nowadays but back when i tried it , it was plain unusable , buggy , SLOW , it was insane . also gnome is kinda minimal and rlly helps you to just get started if you dont rlly know linux . it is kind of opinionated but its not evil , you can jus t , not use it if you dont rlly like it (thats what i do )

also i think having a wayland-pipewire-flatpak stack by default is very good choice that fedora makes , i dont use flatpak apps anymore but again , you gotta think that fedora is kinda meant for newbies that need to Do Stuff , if you need more control you were picking the wrong distro to begin with and shouldve gone with arch

i probably will go back to arch if fedora just goes to soykaf and puts ai or opt-out telemetry in the system , but for now its fine

@fiore @raccoon @getimiskon

wayland-pipewire-flatpak stack by default is very good choice
Flatpak is bloat 🤮

@dushman @raccoon @getimiskon i dont rlly use it except for programs that i dont rlly trust having access to my /home , like if theres proprietary things that i need to run once ina while ,

@fiore@brain.worm.pink @dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz

Plasma is just fine at the moment.
Personally I'm on xfce and it's just fine.

@raccoon @fiore@brain.worm.pink @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
I'm using labwc (straight openbox clone for wayland)

@dushman @fiore@brain.worm.pink @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
Yes but you can't have a noobie use that bruh

@raccoon @dushman @getimiskon xfce is rlly good but i dont rlly want to run on X anymore if i dont need to

@fiore@brain.worm.pink @dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
Fair, xfce will work on wayland at some point though so take a look every once in a while.

@raccoon @fiore@brain.worm.pink @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
xfce would be perfect if only it used qt6 cuz gtk fucking sucks ass

@dushman there's LXQt
@fiore @raccoon

@getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz @fiore@brain.worm.pink @raccoon@hollow.raccoon.quest
Yeah but it's a bit basic. Good DE though.

@dushman well, yes. But it's very customizable. I think you can even make it work with wayland stuff in the latest versions
@fiore @raccoon

@dushman @raccoon @getimiskon nah id rather use gtk programs . qt programs , and kde ones specifically tend to be too much for me

@dushman @fiore @raccoon @getimiskon in truth they both suck

however qt has made much better decisions design wise