Quazatron

I recommend creating 3 partitions. One for UEFI, one for /boot and one for LVM.

Inside the LVM you can assign volumes with complete flexibility. You can expand and shrink volumes. You can leave space unallocated and allocate it when the need presents itself. You can combine multiple disks in a single volume. You can do RAID over LVM or the other way around.

Or you can go with ZFS or BTRFS, they have subvolumes and other nice features built in.

What you don’t have is to be stuck with fixed layout partitions anymore.

It blows my mind that we had multiple modern ways to setup volumes in Linux (LVM, ZFS, BTRFS) for decades, yet people keep using partitions like it’s 1990.

It’s fun to discover new distros, but in the long run it is more important to keep my workstation working.

I keep an old laptop around for trying other distros.

You brought back traumatic memories I had successfully repressed.

Farscape also had a whole made up vocabulary like “frell” and “dren”.

apt remove snapd

Patient gamers unite!

Also, who has time to waste waiting for a 90GB game to load and compile it’s shaders or whatever so you can enjoy the main character’s pimples in full anti aliased resolution when you can just double click some 20 year old game and be right in the thick of it in zero time? I play to have fun, I don’t need all this ultra realistic crap. Give me 5 minutes with some obscure indie game and I’m happy.

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

That’s not a lie, that’s standard operating procedure.

Isn’t this it?

Nowadays I view Windows as a gaming layer that has been bolted on the great Borg mothership that is Linux in the form of Wine or Proton in route to the goal of Total World Domination.

A bit like Embrace, Extend, Extinguish but in reverse, if you will. So it’s fine.

I’m old enough to have clustered some 16 desktop PCs using openMOSIX a long time ago, before the era of multiple cores and threads.

The whole cluster would function like a single Linux system, automatically spreading the work between nodes.

I used it to run SETI@Home for a bit of fun.

It was a neat idea, but never went mainstream. Soon single PCs were powerful enough to run virtual machines and be partitioned instead of clustered.

I don’t hate it, I know that it adds a lot of security to a system, it’s just that it’s not user friendly and it can sometimes leave you scratching your head wondering what the hell happened.

Fistbump

That’s pretty much it.

So you’re implying we can expect Half-Life 3 for Christmas?

I’ve used Gimp for as long as I can remember, it’s one of those tools I always have installed in my workstation. It’s quirky, but I love it anyway.

Glad to see 3.0 released. Valve, are you paying attention? Those is how it’s done.

TIL Airplane! is a parody.

Bravo!

Nah, I live in a country with mandatory vaccination for kids, so you’re on your own on this one.