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Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more
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Other than “at gunpoint,” why are you still using Windows?
I have a 60TB disk pool with DrivePool software and have no place to put my data and create a Linux based pool. I have to wait until I can afford a new 20TB disk as a temp storage.
Unless there is an easy way to convert a DrivePool to mergerfs etc.
How much data do you have, and are the drives identical? Usually I do in-place conversions by taking some drives offline, creating a degraded raid on them, migrating the data, then wiping the remaining drives and bringing them online in the new raid.
Works for zfs pools too, but you can't create a pool with missing drives, you have to create a temporary block device then mark it offline, then replace it with the real drive once it's free.
Heh wow its been awhile since I checked my storage. Lol I forgot I added a bunch last year. Its actually at 116TB now with 13 free.
Wow! I thought my NAS was loaded, but good lord. What are you storing?
Linux ISOs 🏴☠️
I run my family's Streaming Service.
Me too, but my library must not be nearly as impressive.
Some of the more high quality 4k releases (even 1080p ones) just gobbles up storage. I had to settle for the more optimized releases since I just have a 8tb external drive. Wanted to build a nas but man they are expensive, both a good nas and even the basic hard disks. Can't wait for the bubble to pop.
I'm scratching my head here. Are they just being sloppy and inconsiderate?
The biggest video file I have is a fan edit of the hobbit trilogy. It's 4 hours of 720p at 8 gigabytes. Why?
I'm just starting to experiment with Jellyfin, and I'm considering shrinking that down. I'm good with whatever format fit 90 minutes onto a 700MB video file that could be burned to a CD.
Compression will almost always compromises on quality. You can often notice the artifacts on scenes with lot of moving particles and such. So if you can afford the extra storage then that would definitely be the better option. At what stage do you consider them good enough is a very personal choice and the difference in quality often diminishes a lot as you go up. If you are happy with smaller releases then that's perfectly fine too.
Raw bluray rips can easily be over 100GB. I tried for a minute before I decided 1080p was sufficient.
Those are rookie numbers.
If I understood right, it's just software joining together multiple NTFS drives. When you open in another os it's just a normal NTFS drive
You could take two drives and create a raid1 (right? Or yolo without redundancy?) btrfs array. Move stuff from one drive, when it's empty, format it as btrfs and add it to the array. Repeat for every drive.
But....
With this much data I wouldn't risk if you don't have experience with btrfs via cli
Since joining the fediverse, I'm convinced the biggest deterrence for more people joining Linux are its users.
True, People can be obnoxious. But you should still try it at some point, there is something to the hype.
I have tried it, and I had more issues with my previous laptop on Mint than I have currently on Windows. Still I'll look at it again once I need a new one.
Edit: So I guess in my case the users didn't deter me, since I wasn't really interacting with the community at any point. I think it's probably more of a threadiverse user thing than a Linux user thing. And yeah I can be obnoxious myself, I just don't expect it to yield results.
I mean you don't have to wear thigh high socks to use Linux. But they sure do look mighty cozy.
I tried installing Linux but something went wrong and it didn't work.
I know better than to ask for basic computer help in a Linux community.
The Linux community seems to me more open than ever before. Possibly due to the influx of new users who's job is not to administer Linux systems.
I wouldn't be too afraid to ask questions. Linux systems are nowadays quite simple to setup and you shouldn't have much problems with getting a simple question replied to.
All it takes is one asshole during the trial phase to turn someone off from the community entirely. Especially a non-technical person trying to come from something like Windows. And there are a lot of vocal ones across the various Linux communities. Especially in the discussions on GitHub, which is where you end up for support on nearly every piece of software not from a massive corporation, unless it's a simple solution or a very common issue.
The number of times I have posted looking for assistance with an issue, or a small suggestion, and gotten some variant of "fix it (or add it) yourself, it's FOSS" over the last couple years is a bit ridiculous.
Most of the community is great and super helpful. But the assholes are prevalent and very vocal.
don't give up :)
at first i tried to get Bazzite (didn't even install), then Mint (apparently it doesn't work well on dual monitors), and what finally worked was CachyOS, and i've been cruising on it for a few months now
I've always used it as my primary driver, so I know very well how to get the most out of it and customize it to my standards. Some of the software I use has no acceptable replacement on other OS. I don't experience even a fraction of the problems that are reported online.
And you are entirely unbothered by the invasion of privacy?
It's a bother but it can be limited somewhat via toggles and DNS blocking.
Not all of us just use our computers as a hobby, I don't have the time to figure out Linux and make things run in wine or proton, and fixing things that break from updating that software is annoying.
That's funny, not having time to deal with shit (like stopping Windows from spying, serving ads, and otherwise abusing me) is exactly why I use Linux.
Unlike Windows, Linux 'just works.'
That takes a few minutes, it's not like Linux doesn't have stuff I've gotta spend time to fix too.
The majority of the time you just click play in steam, heroic, or whatever. It's no worse than windows.
I don't do any tinkering on my desktop.
Majority yeah but the stuff that doesn't work can be a serious time sink to fix.
This is true on Windows too
It can be, but I never really run into any issues. Part of it is I'm more familiar with windows than linux I'm sure.
My linux desktop experience hasn't been as good, I run it on my laptop since that's more just a web browsing device than anything and it's not critical if it breaks. The last 2 times I've updated Fedora it has broken the bootloader and that took me quite awhile to fix, I can't figure out why it keeps happening as it's a really standard install and doesn't make any sense.
I also still can't get HW acceleration working in any browsers, flatpak or directly installed, which has been extremely frustrating since I've never had to do anything on windows for it to work. There are no clear guides with one fix either, and it's not something I should have to be fixing myself, it should work out of the box.
Yup
Yeah, for me windows just works although with a few annoying nags but not enough to make the effort to switch feel worth it. I was going to buy some new drives to make the switch easy but then prices skyrocketed and I don't want to pay those prices.
Pretty much use it only for the web and games through steam, which is probably the reason for not running into issues.
Heavily modded Skyrim
I use it for work (AD admin, kind of have to unless I want to change careers while I'm halfway to retirement), and at home I use it for a machine that's dedicated to running simulator games (I can get the peripherals to work in Linux for the most part, but a lot of the setup for them is Windows only and since it's only used for that, I'm currently just sucking it up there... Though I'll need to keep something around even if I switch that system since some of them can only be programmed via Windows, like my VKB flight sticks)
I'm hesitant to leave 10 because there are a few games I play that don't support Linux, and I like em too much to quit if 10 still works. However, once support officially ends forreal, I will say goodbye to those games o7 11 will never touch my outers.
At work tho they had to upgrade to 11 in the office, and since it's retail the office isn't really that important but 11 is so poorly designed the computers barely run anymore
Which games, out of curiosity?
I have a surface pro x I bought during the pandemic that I plan on use until it's physically broken (software-wise, you may as well say it already is busted) just to watch YouTube and browse the web on the sofa.
Otherwise, I haven't had to use Windows on my desktop in a year or so ever since switching to Linux. Hooray.
there is an automatic cutting device used to make crafts projects and the only way to run it is with its manufacturer's software which only runs on windows
I tried to get it to work on Linux and had mixed success just getting it to start, but it failed miswrably at trying to communicate over the USB connection to the device no matter what I did
the only thing that worked was running a windows VM with VirtualBox and that got the connection to work but the experience of operating it became poor so until that device dies or the app gets Linux support (neither happening soon) at least one machine must be windows, and right now getting another PC is prohibitively expensive
Dual boot . You can install most distros non destructively side by side in your current partition. Ubuntu even makes it point and click on install.
Just that first thing
Pirated games and modded games
Legacy windows projects development. I switched to Linux and run windows as virtual guest with minimal usage though.