Hard drive partition got corrupted after and update. Might just be easier to reinstall than to fix it. Even long term… what should we install? Fedora again or something else?
@cjerrington managed by System76 with excellent (personal experience) hardware support ootb compared to the upstream Ubuntu and others. Im running it as a main os on a thinkpad and fingerprint scanner worked with some sluggishness and I was even able to get the supposed-to-be-"supported" WWAN working thanks to a community driver. These were never solid for me on other distros, Mint was the only other ootb just-works hardware experience but pop has been my daily driver for years now ♥️
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I'll give it another shot 😉 Kinda between Pop!_OS and EndeavorOS. Getting my multiboot flash drive updated again, so I can test these out better. VMs are great, but only get you so far, too.
@cjerrington I always recommend Ubuntu when people ask. It has broadest support in internet and via Debian a big selection of different packages. Steam works as well, and you can get wide selection of proprietary software via Snaps if you want (or are forced to use) those.
@Paradox I've used Mint before but always seem to have a problem about two months in that corrupts my home directory and user account... It's happen multiple time over different hardware and years in between using it.
@cjerrington Sorry hard drive? Might be the time to move to an SSD...going back in question, I think Debian with flatpaks would suffice, if you feel adventurous try #arch :archlinux:
@lcruggeri Hard drive, storage media, it's about all the same when discussing partition issues. Even if I had a M2 Micro I'd still call it a hard drive. The SSD is a Liteon SSD that is also about 10 years old now.
Fedora is Arch based, starting to get into the Arch ecosystem.
@cjerrington There are some people I'd recommend Nixos to, others I'd suggest Debian, and even them both to the same person for different tasks. (eg: Me, I'm not doing it currently but will when I get around to it: Desktops on Nixos and servers on Debian.)
@LovesTha I've tried NixOS in a VM before. Might look more into this as well. Ubuntu was there as it is a common option as well, and with the recent release. Fedora 39 also is set to be released in a week as well.
I'm not afraid to work on my OS, but also want it to work as well... I don't want to work on fixing it all the time, either.
@cjerrington I've been on Nixos most of this year, my needs are somewhat simple, but things haven't broken once they are working. Which I think meets your requirements. But most of it's upside is when using the one config on many systems, which I'm only sort of doing.
@LovesTha once they are working 😅 how’s the nix config building for updates and packages? I think I want to play more in a VM before going all out on hardware.
@cjerrington Updates: add system.autoUpgrade = true;, most packages are just add the package name to the appropriate list (user or system, your choice) and update.
I'm sure it gets complex when trying to do things further from the golden path, but I haven't run into anything that has stumped me for long yet.
@cjerrington Don't let me pretend everything is 100% rosy, I've got an issue launching Steam games much after system boot. But I think it's just that I have to restart steam when most/some system updates occur.
@LovesTha I can definitely see how NixOS is great for a build and reuse process for server deployment type of infrastructure. Might be a little more than what I want from a standard OS to use on a regular basis.
What makes it oddly suited to desktop use is that same model means it "should" always update cleanly with your configuration applied. Now there is still interaction with your ~/.config folder that can break things (no distro solves that to my knowledge) but generally updates should be as pain free as imaginable.
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