#liquidlearnslinux — Public Fediverse posts

I didn't quite finish all of my Linux goals last year though. Namely the NAS server I wanted to use to try self hosting.

Every software I tried to use basically kicked my ass.

Proxmox was awful to try and get networking, so then I tried TrueNAS.
TrueNAS went out of their way to remove wireless drivers (and according to their forum, are absolutely insufferable about it), so I removed TrueNAS.
I flipped through CasaOS, UmbrelOS, straight up Debian, no dice.
YunoHost looked really promising, but I got cold feet at opening ports in my router, and they may have a nas setup coming in the future but isn't ready now, so I gave up.
I tried Proxmox again, and had a nightmare of a time trying to get the networking going, again, so that is where it lays, nonfunctional.

I felt utterly defeated.

This year, I'm going to try to just set things up in a container, play with things there, and then hopefully transfer it over to a bare metal Debian.

I didn't quite finish all of my Linux goals last year though. Namely the NAS server I wanted to use to try self hosting.

Every software I tried to use basically kicked my ass.

Proxmox was awful to try and get networking, so then I tried TrueNAS.
TrueNAS went out of their way to remove wireless drivers (and according to their forum, are absolutely insufferable about it), so I removed TrueNAS.
I flipped through CasaOS, UmbrelOS, straight up Debian, no dice.
YunoHost looked really promising, but I got cold feet at opening ports in my router, and they may have a nas setup coming in the future but isn't ready now, so I gave up.
I tried Proxmox again, and had a nightmare of a time trying to get the networking going, again, so that is where it lays, nonfunctional.

I felt utterly defeated.

This year, I'm going to try to just set things up in a container, play with things there, and then hopefully transfer it over to a bare metal Debian.

I think it's been…. roughly a year since I jumped into Linux, specifically Fedora Kinoite.

Overall, I like my experience.

KDE feels like home, and familiar since I got the Steam Deck.

Just about every game I've wanted to play works with little fuss.

Not having to fight against the OS to not update is so refreshing.

OnlyOffice has been a drop in replacement for all needed in an office suite.

There are some snags that I didn't like though.

It's strangely difficult to add storage devices and make them behave properly when added and remount on boot. Removeable storages mostly act fine, but persistent volumes seem to get snatched by root for some reason and require my password to mount. Adding an entry to fstab is more cumbersome than it should be, and also feels antiquated considering the rest of the UX having good GUI tooling.
Speaking of volumes…

KDE Partition Manager. The less said the better.

There's been 2 OS upgrades since I installed, and the packages get updated very quickly, but the tooling to install them (rpm-ostree) is annoying. I like being able to quick swap between OS installs or even environments, but I'm missing a lot of stuff from dnf and have to figure out how exactly the equivalent would work in rpm-os, and having to reboot just to install rpm packages sucks. Also, the recommended way to get software outside of the main repos (rpm free/non-free) doesn't tell you that it will be bound to your current OS version, and you'll have to uninstall it before your OS can upgrade to the next version.

Immutable Fedora and finicky storage also makes Steam very irritating, specifically the Flatpak version. Yes, it's not officially supported, but an auto updating software manager that also installs other software seems like a bad fit for a pinned RPM.

The Wayland session mostly works, but there's still some holes missing that need to be filled in (especially on the KDE side). The most glaring being session restore, or what happens when you reboot your computer and it reopens your windows.
Ideally they would go back to all of their places that they were.
Currently, they do not.

Kwin team, I'm begging you to get this merged for 6.6. I am so exhausted repositioning every window on every time I reboot on my OS that heavily requires rebooting.

Also, developers need to be able to position their windows. Merge ext_zones for the love of all that is good.

Also, this is somewhat unrelated but also tied into Wayland/FreeDesktop: if you're going to rearchitect the *nix desktop into a permissioned, least-priviledge, sandboxable system (good) why do you not have permission prompts at runtime that stick (bad. Very bad)? I should not have to re-confirm if I want KeepassXC to control my input so I can use AutoType every time I restart.
I also should not have to wait for FreeDesktop to fundamentally change how browsers talk to native apps just so my extensions work. Can we please try to get functional UX in this transition as soon as possible before we make such a drastic change?

Even with all that said, I would do it all over again.

I think it's been…. roughly a year since I jumped into Linux, specifically Fedora Kinoite.

Overall, I like my experience.

KDE feels like home, and familiar since I got the Steam Deck.

Just about every game I've wanted to play works with little fuss.

Not having to fight against the OS to not update is so refreshing.

OnlyOffice has been a drop in replacement for all needed in an office suite.

There are some snags that I didn't like though.

It's strangely difficult to add storage devices and make them behave properly when added and remount on boot. Removeable storages mostly act fine, but persistent volumes seem to get snatched by root for some reason and require my password to mount. Adding an entry to fstab is more cumbersome than it should be, and also feels antiquated considering the rest of the UX having good GUI tooling.
Speaking of volumes…

KDE Partition Manager. The less said the better.

There's been 2 OS upgrades since I installed, and the packages get updated very quickly, but the tooling to install them (rpm-ostree) is annoying. I like being able to quick swap between OS installs or even environments, but I'm missing a lot of stuff from dnf and have to figure out how exactly the equivalent would work in rpm-os, and having to reboot just to install rpm packages sucks. Also, the recommended way to get software outside of the main repos (rpm free/non-free) doesn't tell you that it will be bound to your current OS version, and you'll have to uninstall it before your OS can upgrade to the next version.

Immutable Fedora and finicky storage also makes Steam very irritating, specifically the Flatpak version. Yes, it's not officially supported, but an auto updating software manager that also installs other software seems like a bad fit for a pinned RPM.

The Wayland session mostly works, but there's still some holes missing that need to be filled in (especially on the KDE side). The most glaring being session restore, or what happens when you reboot your computer and it reopens your windows.
Ideally they would go back to all of their places that they were.
Currently, they do not.

Kwin team, I'm begging you to get this merged for 6.6. I am so exhausted repositioning every window on every time I reboot on my OS that heavily requires rebooting.

Also, developers need to be able to position their windows. Merge ext_zones for the love of all that is good.

Also, this is somewhat unrelated but also tied into Wayland/FreeDesktop: if you're going to rearchitect the *nix desktop into a permissioned, least-priviledge, sandboxable system (good) why do you not have permission prompts at runtime that stick (bad. Very bad)? I should not have to re-confirm if I want KeepassXC to control my input so I can use AutoType every time I restart.
I also should not have to wait for FreeDesktop to fundamentally change how browsers talk to native apps just so my extensions work. Can we please try to get functional UX in this transition as soon as possible before we make such a drastic change?

Even with all that said, I would do it all over again.

KDE I love you but Partition Manager makes me want to :neocat_floof_explode: 💔

Today I had my first taste of needing to manually install a proprietary driver for my hardware on Linux.

I didn't like it

But at least it works now.

I'm so tired of feeling stupid, of wasting time, of being stuck at the starting line of running a NAS because I can't get this damn thing online

Is it normal for Steam on Linux to suddenly grind to a halt when writing to NTFS drives?

And is it normal for the NTFS driver to completely max out on 1 CPU logical core and not spread out the lid on the other cores?

SteamOS 3.7.x has Plasma 6.....and actually restores windows from the previous session!?

Is it possible to learn this power?

#KDE #KDEPlasma #wayland #Plasma6 #SteamOS #LiquidLearnsLinux

Hmmm. I think I've gotten closer to understanding why my KDE keeps imploding every so often

It used to be that I'd wake up to snowy screens, and then watch the desktop agonizingly try to resurrect 1 lone monitor, but it would always come back ...wrong, and I'd inevitably have to 'put it down'.

But today after that snow, my 2 main monitors are back! ...but not my drawing tablet.
Curiously, the tablet is the only thing connected to the integrated GPU, and I also can't see the internal GPU on System Monitor anymore

#LiquidLearnsLinux

Hmmm. I think I've gotten closer to understanding why my KDE keeps imploding every so often

It used to be that I'd wake up to snowy screens, and then watch the desktop agonizingly try to resurrect 1 lone monitor, but it would always come back ...wrong, and I'd inevitably have to 'put it down'.

But today after that snow, my 2 main monitors are back! ...but not my drawing tablet.
Curiously, the tablet is the only thing connected to the integrated GPU, and I also can't see the internal GPU on System Monitor anymore

#LiquidLearnsLinux

The most frustrating part of DIY-ing a solution out of scraps is that there's no clear right answer

Me: how do I set up a RAID in software with virtual storage allocation on top

Internet: ```mdadm, LVM, LUKS, ZFS, and BTRFS. All at the same time. Or none of those. Just remove mdadm and use LVM. But don't do that, it's tricky. BTRFS can do it all. But mdadm is dead simple.```

:blobfoxupsidedown:

#LiquidLearnsLinux

eheh

Well

I may have an answer to why my top menus were vanishing

Y'see, I completely forgor that I added a Global Menu to my desktop panels, which will tell all applications that respect its presence (likely to be native and AppImages, but less often Flatpaks) to smack its menu bars up there.

The thing is, since I set that panel up on a third monitor and now I just have two, I forgot all about it. ...But KDE didn't. Kinda wish there was an indicator that KDE was doing that.

Something to keep in mind if you're wondering why your menu's are missing!

https://pawb.fun/@LiquidParasyte/113879147725398693

#LiquidLearnsLinux #KDE

On that note, while I wait for Steam flatpak to shutdown (it takes inordinately long for some reason...), what E2EE, private Linux supporting cloud file do y'all use instead of Proton?

#Proton #ProtonAG #ProtonAlternatives #askfedi #askfediverse #cloudstorage #linuxhelp #LiquidLearnsLinux

On that note, while I wait for Steam flatpak to shutdown (it takes inordinately long for some reason...), what E2EE, private Linux supporting cloud file do y'all use instead of Proton?

#Proton #ProtonAG #ProtonAlternatives #askfedi #askfediverse #cloudstorage #linuxhelp #LiquidLearnsLinux

Something to look into later — how exactly does CPU topology in KVM work? I want to crave out 8 of my physical processor's threads to put in the VM, but after booting it up it only sees 4.

If I try to mimic a physical 4 core/8 thread chip with in manual topology, it demands I feed it 32 vCPU cores.

#KVM #virtmanager #virtualmachines #QEMU #LiquidLearnsLinux

I'm collecting my various live debugging, troubleshooting, open questions and Linux learning experiences here. #LiquidLearnsLinux

Fuck I got completely derailed as to what I wanted to ask

Linux experts in the fedi:

I'm struggling with my Steam Deck refusing to make a Steam library on my external hard drive's exFAT partition. It keeps giving me errors about the folder not being executable, but I can do all normal file system tasks in that folder and it is marked as read/write/executable in its properties.

Does anyone have any advice?

#linux #steamdeck #linuxhelp #askfedi #boostswanted #pleaseboost #steamos #LiquidLearnsLinux

Fuck I got completely derailed as to what I wanted to ask

Linux experts in the fedi:

I'm struggling with my Steam Deck refusing to make a Steam library on my external hard drive's exFAT partition. It keeps giving me errors about the folder not being executable, but I can do all normal file system tasks in that folder and it is marked as read/write/executable in its properties.

Does anyone have any advice?

#linux #steamdeck #linuxhelp #askfedi #boostswanted #pleaseboost #steamos #LiquidLearnsLinux