Gaspar

@Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Free software had a non-free extra bit that it technically didn’t need. Accidentally got changed to need the non-free part in order to run which caused news stories. Now the change has been reverted so it’s free again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Archinstall. I’m a Linux noob and getting everything set up was a cinch. Even had a spot to put in my address so I can get my first pair of thigh length striped socks from the AUR.

  ^that ^was ^a ^joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Express.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Olsteen

  Houston native spotted. I’m so sorry.

  But this behaviour isn’t really new - I used to work at the Whole Foods on Kirby, which caught fire back in… god, 2012 or so? And someone drove up WHILE THE FIRE WAS STILL BLAZING, was informed that the store was closed, and legitimately responded, “But where am I gonna get my coconut water?”

  They may be more mask-off about it now, but it’s always been a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WikiLeaks' Julian Assange says he pleaded 'guilty to journalism' in order to be freed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab 'em by the headlines. When you’re famous, they let you do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  www.emudeck.com.

  Not that you need to use special tools. SteamOS is built on Arch so you can just… y’know, install shit on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend gifted me a "fighting RPG" that turned out to be something else entirely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scarlet Maiden is great too if you’re a fan of Rogue Legacy.

  …uh, I’ve heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a really basic one. Some caveats - I’ve also used Windows my whole life (up until about 2 weeks ago), but I’m comfortable getting into a command prompt and/or powershell to tweak stuff. Also, I had a spare SSD lying around and extra space on my installed HDD.

  Step 0 (arguably the hardest): pick your distro.
  I went with Arch - but if you want something Arch-based but a little less barebones, you might do fine with Manjaro or EndeavourOS. This is totally up to you though (I’m in the process of migrating my wife to openSUSE). “But Gaspar, you crazy old man,” you may ask, “what all is out there?” Well… there’s a lot. Over 600 active distros, if you believe this random-ass tech blog, and countless other hundreds (or thousands) that are old, outdated, no longer supported, or were cooked up by one dude specifically for their own system and will never be uploaded. There are a couple of tools that can help narrow this down, but you’re really just going to have to poke around and see what appeals to you.

  Step 1: Test in a virtual machine first.
  This is optional, but it may help you make up your mind: pick a few different distros and install them in virtual machines, using VirtualBox or something. You can poke around in there and see how things “feel” before you make up your mind, without worrying about messing something up.

  Step 2: Load up a USB stick.
  Ventoy. You don’t HAVE to use this, strictly speaking. You can just get Etcher or Rufus or something, use them to write your chosen distro’s ISO to a USB stick, and install that way. But Ventoy sets up a separate partition on your USB stick where you can grab a bunch of different ISOs and drag-and-drop in there, and load up whichever one you want. Pretty handy.

  Step 3: Go into Disk Management and free up a partition for your chosen distro.
  This is up to your taste (I just installed it into its own whole SSD) but I’d set aside at least 256GB for the OS and the packages you’ll want to install once you get in there. Again, though, YMMV.

  Step 4: Install that sucker!
  OK, now boot into your ISO through the USB stick you prepared earlier and install the sucker on your new partition. Most distros will have you set up a root password and give you the option to create a user. YOU WANT TO DO THIS. You do not want to always access your system as root - that way lies madness (and it’s wildly insecure). You may also get a choice of desktop environments. This is up to your taste but I went with KDE Plasma because I have a Steam Deck (which also runs on a variant of Arch) and I was already used to the interface.

  Step 5: Migration start
  After you’ve gotten set up and a little comfortable poking around (maybe you already figured out how you want to start setting up when you were testing VMs in Step 1 earlier), it’s time to start partitioning. There are a few GUI partition managers you can use - I used KDE Partition Manager, but there’s also Gparted and a few others.

  Once you’re in whichever program you’ve chosen to set up your partitions, you’ll want to proceed in this basic order:

  • Shrink your Windows partition(s) if they are taking up the entire drive, and you have the space to do so (if not, we’ll get to that)
  • Create new Linux partitions in the filesystem of your choice (again, will explain this shortly)
  • Mount both your Windows and Linux partitions and copy from one to the other
  • Once you’re happy that everything’s copied over, delete the Windows partition(s) (unless you’re planning on dual-booting, in which case keep the partition with your Windows install)
  • Finally, extend your new Linux partition(s) to cover the whole drive

  Step 6: Wait what?
  Well, maybe your Windows drive is full, or there isn’t enough space on the new partition to copy everything over. This is why I mentioned the spare SSD. You can plug that in, if you have one, and use it as a placeholder to copy your files to while you reformat your drive and then copy everything back.

  Also - filesystem of your choice? Well, Linux has a few options for partition types: ext4, btrfs, zfs, and a bunch of others. You’ll have to check them out and see which makes the most sense for you. I personally just reformatted everything as btrfs. It may not have been the most efficient choice, but it’s worked out for me so far. The main issue here is the standard Windows NTFS file system. Now - you CAN keep a lot of your data on an NTFS partition, especially if you want to dual boot Windows for a while and get used to things while still having that familiar lifeline (or, like me, if you have some games that still just don’t play well with Linux yet). Here’s the thing, though: thanks to a driver you can download, you can fairly easily get Windows to mount your btrfs partitions (I did it and even still have my drive letter associations). Plus, if you are a heavy Steam gamer, while you CAN get Steam on Linux to read your NTFS partitions… it’s a huge headache, and it isn’t worth it IMO (and, in my experience, I couldn’t get my NTFS partitions to STAY mounted as read/write). Better to just bite the bullet.

  If you are planning on dual-booting, of course your Windows partition will still need to be NTFS. But if you have the disk storage to copy everything over, you can have everything else converted to whatever combination of Linux partitions you want in a few days (took me about 3, but I also had 10-ish TB to copy over and I had to do half of that twice).

  Final Thoughts
  Depending on whichever flavor of Linux you opted for, you may boot into GRUB, which is a bootloader that gives you some pretty neat configuration options - one of those options is the ability to boot into all your existing OS installs, including your Windows installation. Once you get a bit more familiar with Linux you may wish to make your Linux partition the default, secure in the knowledge that whenever you want, you can just hit down a couple of times, then Enter, and boom - you’re in Windows. Just be careful, because Windows recently pushed an update that may have broken this currently. I think it’s a nice touch, though.

  I have rambled on long enough at this point and I’m sure someone else can point out several hundred things I missed - again, I am still a Linux newbie. But the best way to learn this stuff is just to do it, and depending on your comfort level and familiarity with Windows it shouldn’t take you long to get up to speed. Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only Honk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  HONK if you HONK

  I will HONK HONK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stay informed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FLEENTSTONES?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the bottom of the article, under “Can I opt out?”:

  If you choose to opt out, please note that on March 5th, 2024 you will lose access to Cross Progression, My Rewards, and RED Forums, and all connected data will be permanently deleted.

  Again, it’s not a deal breaker for me, and not nearly as bad as needing an account to even play, but I felt it was at least worth bringing up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s optional for some cosmetic rewards

  And also CrossPlay…

  Don’t get me wrong, it’s better than requiring the account to play the game, but it’s still kind of a disappointing move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the struggle⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica."⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re a good sport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel so old.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s stuck in my head now. Time to go find the Metallica cover, if they haven’t scrubbed it from the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snikt⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t even die there, if you can believe it. Though he is catatonic and carried home by Jean Grey. This is one of the few comic books I actually had.

  Immediately after this, Xavier gets pissed and completely mind-wipes Erik, something he promised he’d never do. This causes a part of his psyche to splinter off, eventually kidnap Franklin Richards, and merge with him to become Onslaught.

  Then an amnesiac, de-aged Magneto shows up to help the X-Men fight Onslaught.

  Comics are wild, man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, Sierra. The game company almost singlehandedly responsible for creating a generation of masochists.

  You’re still right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Akira Toriyama, the Creator of Dragon Ball, Dead at 68⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cramps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehhhh… I’d classify that one as more Steampunk Fallout (1 or 2) or Baldur’s Gate. Not that that makes it bad - it’s great fun! Just maybe not what OP is looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor swift got electrolytes too you know⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what set off the recent wave is when she threatened legal action against the person posting her private jet’s tracking information. She (or her legal team) was alleging that it enabled stalking, but the tracking data is public information so stalkers would already have had access to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And how's there a car in a mall? Life's important questions⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, but it’s not nearly as much an issue in day to day life as we were led to believe. I suppose I could have been clearer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And how's there a car in a mall? Life's important questions⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it wasn’t until much later that I learned that the “buried alive” was metaphorical. See: debt, stress, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went hunting and found OOP’s blog. There isn’t much more to the story, which I will transcribe here:

  until like LAST WEEK
  professor B publishes a paper that casually drops the word “husband”
  and obviously all the students are like “oh i didn’t know u were married!” because we read that shit like how white suburban mothers read People Magazine
  and shes like “yeah, it’s Professor A”
  and we all FLIPPED. THE FUCK. OUT
  we thought the framed picture of the two of them on professor A’s desk was ironic because hes that type of guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨De omnibus dubitandum⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m partial to Nihil Novum Sub Sole.

  Actually a little surprised that nobody beat me to that one. Maybe there IS something new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when Scotty helped Lucy sell Vitameatavegamin?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Scotty, why should all these lovely folks buy a bottle of Vitameatavegamin?”

  “Well, er… … …It’s green.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Vaccine Can Completely Reverse Autoimmune Diseases Like Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, and Crohn’s Disease⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for this. I have T1D and it seems like every other day I’m hearing about a new cure for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. Good to know that this isn’t just more clickbait. Still not getting my hopes up yet but I’ll be interested to see where this goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time I looked into it, it was closer to 4 million to “never work again” if you were in your mid-30s. Nowadays, even that figure is probably not enough. Your point still stands, however.