“Ownership” of a computer system is a surprisingly important thing to me.
When I first installed Ubuntu in dual boot a year ago, I immediately ditched Windows because linux felt like something I could understand and control (and break if I screwed up, and if I broke it it would be my own damn fault and I should simply git gud), while windows was an opaque black box of horribleness in comparison. I can count the times I’ve booted back to windows with my fingers, in unary. And I don’t even have polydactyly.
Then I had a taste of Arch and the same kind of feeling came back. I was no longer given a ready setup, but instead a blank slate to build my own system on, and all successes and, most importantly, fuckups would be purely my own. It was intimidating, it was difficult, it was awesome. And now ubuntu feels like windows in comparison.
For example, I can’t get Urxvt to load the colors from my .Xresources no matter how much I xrdb (but the font changes to Terminus as expected; yet I can’t get Terminess Powerline to show up either) and the ubuntu sources I can find don’t seem to expect people to be wanting to do this kind of low-level dotfile aroundscrewing (I mean, seriously, how else is one supposed to adjust stuff; gui tools are opaque and I don’t grok what they exactly do, whereas “so I adjust this dotfile here, it’s loaded by that program to do such thing” is intuitive and insightful) so it looks like I’m installing Arch to change my terminal colors. Might seem like slight overkill, but the Third Virtue of Rationality says that when it looks like I’m going to install Arch inevitably, I might as well do it right away.
So, deep computer side of tumblr, show me the forbidden advice!
On topics such as:
I have 480G and 240G SATA SSDs, and a 400G PCIe SSD; how should I set up the filesystem assuming I’m nuking windows and switching everything over to Arch, and possibly adding a few T of spinningy platters for bulk data storage later?
I’m thinking of using the 240 as a personal data backup drive for all the stuff I definitely don’t want to lose if one fails, putting / on the 480, and then I need some way to have all the I/O intensive stuff on the PCIe as it’s faster (you know you have ADHD when a regular SSD isn’t fast enough so instead you need to grab an enterprise-grade one from a clearance sale); so I should have certain folders located on that one, but I can’t think of anything overarching that would cover the needs.
The computer is going to occasionally be a game server for J so some games from steam need to be on the PCIe but I don’t want to install all of steam on it; and whatever I/O-heavy computing I do myself also needs to be running from it.
If I make it /home/promethea/$pcie_name it would be relatively easy and straightforward but then J can’t access it; if I make it /$pcie_name it feels a bit dirty for some reason; does anyone have any suggestions?
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lisp-case-is-why-it-failed reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:That will work. You could also use bind mounting, which will do basically the same thing. And sorry, I didn’t mean...
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imu-li reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:I recommend looking into ZFS. You can either put arbitrary portions of the file system on arbitrary combinations of...
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The PCIe drive is an Intel 910; got it for something like 1/10 of its list price; it did do an impressive job of making...
reasonableapproximation reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:The standard place to put external filesystems is under /mnt/. (I think Ubuntu ignores this and puts them in /media/,...
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