[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)
  1. GParted is very reliable, but never do any disc operation without a tested backup in hand. Honestly the first and best self hosted thing you can do is a NAS backup.

  2. That Fedora default is a great default for any residential Linux install. You mentioned earlier wiping your NVMe for Linux. That is a sound choice.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    1: for general computing, like storing your photos, documents, etc, just fine. I wouldn't store a database or run programs from it.

    2: always, even if not distro hopping. You can use a volume aware filesystem like Btrfs and have @ mounted on / and @home mounted on /home, so you don't have to pre allocate space for one or another. Many distros will detect this setup and smartly use snapshots to revert upgrades without touching your home dir.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Firmware updates were a brute since I had to crack them open and use an external serial connection, but, still, I was willing to continue recommending them as entry level kits.

    Bruh.

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