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Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?

Don’t get me wrong. I love Linux and FOSS. I have been using and installing distros on my own since I was 12. Now that I’m working in tech-related positions, after the Reddit migration happened, etc. I recovered my interest in all the Linux environment. I use Ubuntu as my main operating system in my Desktop, but I always end...

Babalas,

My little anecdote. I was watching a YT video where the guy spent 10 minutes explaining where to go to download and install python, git, and something else. The entire time I was cringing thinking that's a one liner.

Babalas,

Once you've picked your flavour I'd say choose how you want to partition and manage backups / snapshots. I see you have 2 ssds, so are you planning on raiding them with something like btrfs? Do you want to encrypt your drives?

Babalas,

Cool. So what I've found useful is to spend a little bit of time upfront to decide how you want to do your partitions, and what file systems. So, for example, I don't care about backing up projects (yay git) and their build artifacts, don't care about .cache, but do want backups of .config and my steam library. I use btrfs for snapshots, and btrfs send that to my NAS, but obviously a lot of stuff can be restored easily so that's bind mounts.

Or use LVM (with or without LUKs) and at least give yourself some wiggle room for later.

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