MentalEdge

Op didn’t install anything on their system yet.

It sounds like maybe the usb drive is a bit crappy.

I’ve had trouble with cheap ones crapping out partway through being used, but be fine once you re-write the files to them. Twice now, yours worked, but then stopped working suddenly for seemingly no reason.

The drive might also be getting too hot. That happens with the Kingston DataTraveler drives I have. If I try to read or write continuously for too long, they shut down for thermal protection, and I have to let them sit for a bit before they work again.

Did you try re-doing that?

The EFI partition is something that exists on the storage device being booted, so if something is wrong with that, then the problem is something on the USB.

Since windows still works, the EFI partition on your computer must be fine.

You can also give Ventoy a go. It replaces the need for Balena Etcher/Rufus.

After you install Ventoy on the usb, it will continue to work like a normal usb drive. Now you just put the .iso file you want on the usb. Or multiple at a time, even. And you can continue using it as a usb drive without removing Ventoy or the isos. It wont care if there are other files on it.

When you go to boot from it, Ventoy will show you a menu of the isos on the usb, and let you pick one to boot. Makes it really easy to try a bunch of different distros if you want.

And it works with windows isos, too.

Did you install anything yet?

It sound like you set up the installer usb, tried it, then went into windows to free up disk space, and now the usb no longer boots?

If I got that right, tell us more about the usb drive you used, and the software you used to make it bootable.

It is also used for system suspend.

Disabling swap will prevent a system from suspending, which might be fine, but I use it.

And swap isn’t some ancient relic. Sure, my 32GB desktop barely uses it, but my home server benefits greatly from having 64GB of swap in addition to 16GB of physical memory. It may not need to use much more than 16GB at any one time, but shit runs a lot better using a giant SSD swap with how many services I run.

System config is case by case, not “current year”.

@Dave@lemmy.nz

Yeah… I’m not gonna be asking the stuff I already found answers to via an internet search.

Yes.

Just do yay timeshift, then install all three packages that show up.

Timeshift itself is one, autosnap is a second, and the third is a systemd timer that handles the scheduled snaps (monthly, weekly, etc).

Oh, for sure. If you wait a month, the bigger update can be a lot more trouble.

But look at it like this. If a rolling distro has a problem once a week, which is fixed within 24 hours, updating daily guarantees you will run into it.

While updating weekly means your chance is only one in seven. Since because by the time you update, the fix is more likely to already be in the repos, so you’ll be jumping over the problematic update.

The functionality is conceptually identical, yes.

And timeshift is by default set up such that only / is rolled back while /home is kept as-is.

So same as atomic distros, rolling back doesn’t mean going back in time in terms of personal files or settings.

So I’m really only missing out on the updates for something like Bazzite being potentially more reliable.

I’ve been on endeavour+plasma over a year now.

I share your desire for a system that always, 100%, every time, is there and ready to be used.

At the same time, I really like arch and the convenience of the AUR.

Hence, I boot-strap reliability onto my system through btrfs snapshots.

The setup is extremely simple, (provided your install is grub+btrfs) just install timeshift + the auto-snap systemd services. Configure it, and forget it.

Next time something breaks, instead of spending time on troubleshooting, you timeshift back to a known good point and then just get on with using your system.

With the auto-snap package installed every update also creates a restore point to go back to before it.

In addition to that, I started updating my system less frequency. The logic being that the more often you update a rolling release install, the more likely you are to catch it at a time when something is wrong, before it is fixed. Still regularly, but instead of every other day, I now have an update notification that goes off once a week.

The result has been zero time spent troubleshooting my system. If it worked yesterday, it’ll work today. If it worked last week, but doesn’t today, I’m a reboot away from a known good snapshot.

Wayland has been fine on nvidia for a while now. Even G-Sync works.

There should be a library type called “Home videos and photos” for that.

Huh? Like just sitting there?

Or is it running a heavy background task like trickplay generation? You can disable trickplay (scrobbling previews) if your system isn’t beefy enough to keep up with them.

I run video game servers on my system, and while stream transcodes used to interfere with them, even that was fixed my assigning JF and the games to run on separate CPU cores.

Not a font, but this.

As someone with sexy art in the wallpaper rotation of all my devices…

It’s just nice to look at?

Sexual beauty can be appreciated in the same way as any other kind of beaty. And doing so doesn’t actually require being turned on, at least not in my case.

Even when it happens, enjoying art and looking at porn are different things. With porn, arousal is the only point. With something artistic, arousal is just one sliver of the full spectrum of human experience a piece might provoke.

People make custom PC builds to look cool for no other reason than that it looks cool. People hike to mountaintops just because the view is incredible. Architechts endeavor to make buildings both pleasant to look at, and be in.

The sexy art isn’t pornographic to me. All I do, really, is enjoy looking at it for a moment as I go about using my devices. There is nothing perfomative about it. I could not care less what someone else thinks looking over my shoulder at my screen.

@cepelinas@sopuli.xyz

Apparently windows doesn’t like it, but it can be done using Rufus or WinToUSB.

Should be. A USB drive is a storage device like any other. Shouldn’t matter that it isn’t connected via SATA or NVME.

Wine can’t properly access USB devices, so even if you got iTunes installed, it wouldn’t work.

I’m sceptical that a VM is out of the question, one should run on almost anything, though not necessarily perform well. I would give it an attempt, if you didn’t already.

Still, it might be simplest to set up a windows install with itunes on a usb, or second partition, and boot into windows only when you need to.

Oh that’s new for me. I’ve been using alternativeto.com

My pleasure!

I’m very happy to have stuck with it. Many communities now have contributors other than me, which has allowed me to discover artists that are new to me in turn.