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But I notice that they don’t say they’ll ban everyone from Feddit…?

So, maybe there’s some hope for them yet…

Didn’t even know it was a thing, thanks for sharing

Harsh (to yourself), but fair

Without repeating my other comment. This approach saved my life many times

Until you block ICMP one day and then wonder why the server keeps rebooting…

(Been there. Done it)

This.

Do it. This saved my life on more than one occasion.

You’ll think “nah, it’ll be fine” and then at 11pm when your brain’s fried on vending machine coffee you’ll be glad that you did it… 3 times over…

Check out JetKVM

not RAID10 I hope…

Documentation & comments… the most underated part of any system

Maybe it’s a regional thing… cal defaults to starting on a Monday for me

I think 90% of the comments here are “write your own notes“ - which is possibly over simplistic.

Everyone’s different but IMHO:

The brain is better for imagination than long term storage. So if you’re stuck trying to remember some obscure command(s), it’s just better to use something else to store that on.

But when the brain understands the core concepts well enough, the details come together as habits (where repetition comes in).

So, if you’re unable to recall something, take some time to think / remind yourself about the underlying concepts and why that’s the command - next time it’ll be easier, eventually it’ll be effortless.

I had to learn some strange concepts for work during a deep technical troubleshooting session on a client’s system and the commands were like just facemashing the keyboard… I’ve no idea what those commands are now (written down), but I can recall what / why I was doing them and that was the key… for me.

(Using computers since '80s)

I’ve gotta agree here that passwords - (and encryption) - should be optional.

Xfce4-terminal has the quake style drop down mode?

(rushes off to try it)

Ooh didn’t know that…

(rushes off to try it)

Kinda not really answering your question but Arch’s AUR often needs to compile something from source - so the benefit for me is: just having the absolute latest version running, so if there’s a bug I can report it and help the package become better.

And in 5 years time it might be in Debian stable… /s

Yeah agreed. I know everyone has different issues, but I do think there’s a presumption that because you don’t have to pay anything then that means you just don’t pay…

Please contribute however you can people 👍🏻

Sorry for the confusion there, trying to be too concise in a short reply.

I get the points you’re making; I’ve been there, done the root space recovery thing (the default can be a massive amount of space with modern drives, so I’ve changed it on several systems). I’ve setup lvm across drives, used btrfs (& sunvolumes), etc, so I know where you’re coming from. Never seen quotas actually used out in the wild of (generally) single user domestic settings.

But, moving /home to a separate partition, drive(s), etc. provides flexibility - in this case, the OP’s point of distrohopping.

Yeah, I like /var to be in it’s own partition so I can keep my system(s) under close control, and a separate /boot seems to be necessary these *EFI days

Yeah, don’t get me wrong… many a time I’ve had to boot gparted and resize partitions, but, the system isn’t affected if you download too much and / or you don’t lose data if the system’s full.

I’d go 1 step further and insist on putting home on a separate partition anyway - helps with issues like running out of diskspace.

To answer the original question, boot the distro’s ISO from a USB stick and try that (/those) before you actually install anything. You might find some hardware’s not supported (ie wifi) until you do a full install, but at least you can eliminate the distros you don’t like, quickly.