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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).

Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

BtrFS has Stuff.

Subvolumes, which enable you to share the same /home between Linux distros
Snapshots that are an great for
- freezing the FS during off-machine backups: create a snapshot, rsync the snapshot not the main FS, drop the snapshot
- transient backups. Will executing this thing hose my system? If no, drop the snapshot.
ability to pool different disks into a single FS
and so much more.

Fun story: once I needed to do something (resize? can't recall) a partition that happened to be in use. The solution involved smbmounting a network disk, losetup helping transform that thing into a virtual disk, then migrating the root FS there, recreating partitions, all while running the rootfs on that thing. Thus, pooling can bu useful.

By the way, what does Zsh have over bash that you find useful?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

zsh has vi mode

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Not OP , but regarding zsh, it has much better auto completion, and suggestion support. Additionally you can theme your prompt much more, see for example powerlevel10k

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Honestly, the only btrfs feature that interests me is the snapshotting, as the current state of my backups is rather sub-par. There's just a lot of inertia involved in adopting it when ext4 Just Works™. Maybe next time I install a new system I'll give it a shot.

As for zsh, I rather like the general "intelligence" I see on others' machines: the way it autocorrects typos, draws a navigable menu for tab completions complete with colour highlighting... it looks lovely. I've been a Bash user for 25 years though, and muscle memory like smashing the tab key to get what I want is a hard habit to break.