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Stephen, everything is the same until 6:27 mount /dev/mapper/ and I get "can't find /dev/mapper/ in /etc/fstab/" One difference is I am on bare metal on a 2TB SSD rather than your virtual machine. Can you explain how to create the entry in fstab through busybox? Thanks.
At 3:41 you didn't set passwd for root as you said you don't want to have a root account, just the Stephen then how did you get into root at 11:55 by doing sudo -s 🤷 could you please explain this to be, I'm trying to learn as much as possible about Linux
Thank you once again Stephen. I have followed your adventures with Arch, Fedora WS and Silverblue, but now I am stuck on Tumbleweed Gnome. <sudo reboot> goes to openSUSE Tumbleweed terminal login, but it doesn't respond to input. I have to hard boot. How do I troubleshoot? Thank you.
Thank you once again Stephen. I followed your adventures with Arch, Fedora WS and Silverblue, but now I have Tumbleweed Gnome. In terminal <sudo reboot> goes to openSUSE Tumbleweed terminal login, but it does not respond. I have to hard boot. How do I troubleshoot? Thank you.
Found a gist by imthenachoman reporting how to modify apt.conf.d/80snapper to include the full apt command as the snapshot description. Didn't test yet, but seems ok.
Installing arch on QubesOS as Standalone VM video would be appreciated. ☺️ No template!!!! I did install succesfully Manjaro and Cachy and Endeavour but could not arch vanilla.😢
Just getting ready to try Open Suse-- one other guy on here says it's even MORE stable than Debian..and looks cool, Wanted to know about flatpaks which you have in here-- THANK YOU MUCH!!!
This is the best video I have ever seen about openSUSE Tumbleweed and covered more I wanted to know. I am installing now. Thank you! :) I just used lynis (for the first time) and also got a score of 86.
I was wanting to get some help. Every time I run the command mount /dev/mapper/ I get a message that says mount: can’t find /dev/mapper/ in /etc/fstab. How do I proceed?
If the mount point is not specified in /etc/fstab you would need to specify explicitly where (on which mount point directory) to mount /dev/mapper. Good luck!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 thanks for the tip. I’ve been thinking about the problem. One thing I’m going to try is when I was following your instructions and trying to install Debian 12 that way I was using a ventoy usb because that’s where I keep all of my distro ISO files on. Normally it works just fine. What I was thinking I would try is taking a blank USB and making it a dedicated Debian 12 usb and repeating the process to see if that changes anything.
Could I do this same installation and use TimeShift as an alternative to Snapper? I wanted something simpler because I switched to Linux a few weeks ago and I found the snapper very complicated to use in your video example
Hi. It also works fine with no encryption/no separate boot partition. I use snapper-rollback. No need for intermediate update-grub or default snapshots. Thanks!
LMDE is not the only distribution that has a 32-bit version, but it is the least problematic of the existing ones, and version 6 works at least as well as version 5, bringing a modern system to older laptops and PCs. The only thing that makes sense is to change Cinnamon to XFCE (or LXQT) if RAM is limited. An alternative (for old hardware) I can probably call Simply Linux, but this is an ugly duckling compared to LMDE.
I tried to install Debian 12.5 i386 on an old HP laptop today. I got to 50 seconds of the installation left and the laptop died. Something went badly wrong and now I can't use the laptop. I can't find any helpful information anywhere. The laptop has been fine with other operating systems installed. Windows 7, Linux Mint and openSUSE Tumbleweed. The only reason I never kept Tumbleweed is because the software centre wouldn't work. It would start loading and then just close. Experiences like these are some of the things that discourage people from using Linux.
Why did you even bother to make this video? It's nearly useless. You show us a bunch of menus and say about all of them "There are a lot of choices," but you don't show us what any of the choices actually DO. I had to quit halfway through. I can't waste my life watching videos that don't provide any useful information.
hey man, I know that we're not closer to each other but, is everything alright? it's been 4 months from your last video. I hope that everything is fine with you. The world needs great guys like you, @RoboNuggie and @GaryHTech.
@@stephenstechtalks5377 totally understandable. just remember that we'll be here when you come back man. Take care and we hope that you can come back soon.
Sir, your videos are really the best! I just wanted to thank you and comment on your latest Video, and a like as well. I really enjoy BtrFS now and I've learned a lot studiying your Videos I also love your Subvolume layout and I copy it most of the time and add my own, for example /var/lib/waydroid. So I just obvserved that Snapper simply works the best and most reliable on openSUSE, for other Systems, I prefer Timeshift. My question is: Since many of the Subvolumes are related to /var, do you think it would be good to make @var a subvolume as a whole? It seems simpler to manage, but I don't know about possible draw backs. Hope you can clearify that. Thank you so much!
Great Video, as always! I was hoping for you special treatment for us SSD users, thats what I really like about your Videos, you always show us how to minimize wear. Is noatime activated by default? And do you define that in the config or in /etc/fstab? And enabeling something like zram, seems very easy in nix, thank you!
My understanding is to add the noatime mount option in hardware-configuration.nix file: nixos.wiki/wiki/Filesystems Good luck, and thanks for watching!
Hey Stephen, just wanted to say how much I enjoy your channel! I noticed you haven't been uploading as frequently lately, I hope everything's okay and you're doing well. Take care!
35:25 How to get more detailed than just "apt" comments on the grub-btrfs list ? (other than manually editing each time the snapper-GUI) Anyone found a workaround ? Arch users do have the full CLI that they typed to install/remove a package, before rebooting... Is it thanks to snap-pac package? Is there an equivalent for apt ?
Hello Sir. I have a small issue with booting from grub to r/o snapshots. System just hangs and get bunch of errors like Gdm service failed, account service failed etc.. I have the same layout as yours. My workaround has been to open tty and make BTRFS snapshot ro false and then I can boot into Gdm and my system works. I also had to change the /var/lib/ gdm3 to just /var/lib/gdm. Why would that be? Thank you I didn’t see you run into that issue for some reason.
Thanks for the insights about snapper ! (as I never made it to get a SUSE install working lol, I'll stick to debian anyway as the suse apt equivalent is rumored to be slow). Since the BTRFS quotas feature isn't stable as of 2024, I wonder why nobody on YT made a guide on how to use BTRFS on LVM (e.g at debian install time), for hot-resizing/hot-bay-expanding/hot-bay-removal/insertion in a LVM rig. BTRFS itself seems enough for partitioning/isolating into subvolumes, but without LVM, users have to know beforehands the allocated storage sizes. You have the best partition scheme I've seen, very convenient to isolate the QEMU stuff. I wish you overhauled it with LVM, as I don't know if getting a dedicated home logical volume, instead of keeping it as a a btrfs subvolume, would still allow timeshift/snapper to snapshot...
Thanks for sharing! BTRFS subvolumes are logical too - you can have as many as you want on a single physical partition formatted with BTRFS. :) LVM is CoW already, and BTRFS is considered by most to be CoW, so there may be redundancy here...
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Thanks to YOU for being this reactive! I commented (few days ago too) on this video watch?v=RPO-fS6HQbY . If I recall correctly his explanations, btrfs equilibrates free space among the logical volumes at all time, so one file evergrowing crazy (e.g logfile) is enough to make the system logical volume unusable. BTRFS quotas feature may have been created for this probably, but because it's not stable yet, I think LVM is a safer underlayer. It seems that at least another frenchie thought about such overthinked setup few years ago : watch?v=DFxs3EN4QAk
the trim on encrypted drives is easy to go unnoticed. thanks for the guide. you need to make it --persistent otherwise on reboot the flag will be gone. there are a couple of other performance flags you can add too for ssd storage related to LUKS encryption. p.s. not sure if these flags can be added to crypttab or fstab in a different way
Thank you! Sir, I think you conviced me to use Immutable Distros for my main system! Great tips, you showed us how to jump from Silverblue, to Kinoite, but what if you decide: "Mhm.. I think I like KDE Plasma more, I will stay on Kinoite" What happens with all the GNOME Apps? Because the showed /home backup method only works, if you rollback to Silverblue, right? I also noticed, that you have the whole qemu-kvm virt-manager package layered, is it okay to use CoW VM on a CoW Filesystem like Fedoras?
@@stephenstechtalks5377Thank you for answering on such an old Video! It's also working on my maschine! All it took was to get familiar with the lschattr command :)
openSUSE Tumbleweed is, in my opinion, THE most underrated distribution! I recently started using it and I'm amazed how stable and rock solid it is! So this video was very informative for me and I got everything set up and configured. I even got my network printer working thanks to your video! Your videos are great. Watched a lot of them and enjoyed them very much. I like your calm explanations and learned a lot about Linux in general. Thank you very much and keep up the great work! Greetings from Germany 🙂
I create my boot usb dd. I install it. I restart. I log in in console things. And then !? Nothing. Just console command. This is highly hard for a windows newbee . I was just trying to install linux and playing steam game to try it. This is by far not and out of the box experience and this is why there is still no massive adoption.
Thank you for this video. I am constantly switching between Tumbleweed and Fedora KDE. With a VM I can now have one as host and the other as guest. I do have a question about swap memory. I set it up the way you did it in this video and almost immediately swap was used already. When memory consumption gets less after the moment the system needed swap, when will swap use be 0 again? It seems to me, swap always has some content even though memory use is very little. How does this work? Thanks.
Glad it was helpful! Hard to tell what's going on over the internet :) Your system may require some tuning, but it seems like normal kernel behavior to me: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram It will usually reset to 0 swap usage on reboot. For more swap discussion, some people think this helps: www.linuxatemyram.com/
