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  • deepdive@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlJust moved to Linux: a follow up
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    11 months ago

    Heyha ! Read about dd on makeuseof after reading your post, to see how it works.

    Restoring from an image seems exactly what I was looking for as a full backup restore.

    However this kind of 1 command backup isn’t going to work on databases (mariadb, mysql…). How should I procede with my home directory where all my containers live and most of them having running databases?

    Does it work with logical volumes? Is it possible to copy evrything except /home of the logical volumes?


  • Thank you for your insights and personal experiences :) I love Debian stable as server, never had any issues on a old Asus laptop ! I have only 2 years of “experience” and started with Ubuntu. Good introduction to linux but switched to Debian (<3)

    That’s way I’m asking arround I don’t wan’t to have a too bad experience with Debian as main personal PC !

    Thank you for your personal blog post and the wiki link :) will surely read through before making my final choice !





  • deepdive@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlSwitching to Debian on my gaming pc
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    11 months ago

    Do you consider testing a better choice than sid for desktop/gaming environment?

    I’m really not sure which one I should use. I only have experience with bare bone debian stable as server, I’m trying to find the best choice when switching from windaube to debian :)

    Thanks for your insights and personal experiences !


  • Thank you !!

    I’m currently looking into xfce vs KDE plasma, something I need to pay attention to is a DE with x11 because nvidia hasn’t fully supported wayland ?

    Am I right to consider it that way? Or do both support nvidia drivers?

    I’m sorry, I only use debian as bare bone on my server and currently considering to switch my main desktop from windaube to linux and alot of informations on the web seem contradictory or incomplete :/



  • You probably have your reason to run Debian testing but I read somewhere that testing is somehow a bad idea as desktop environment !

    If somehing is stuck and being updated in sid, and bugs are still happening, you could be stuck for month without the correct update in testing.

    Sorry if it’s not clear, but I read it somewhere in the official debian documentation.




  • Strange enough TLS 1.3 still doesn’t support signed ed25519 certificates :| P‐256, NIST P‐384 or NIST P‐521 curves are known to be “backdoored” or having deliberately chosen mathematical weakness. I’m not an expert and just a noob security/selfhoster enthusiast but I don’t want to depend on curves made by NSA or other spy agencies !

    I also wondering if the EU isn’t going to implement something similar with all their new spying laws currently discussed…



  • Thank you very much for your enlighten answer :D !

    Removing emacs-gtk itself will work as you expect

    Yes that’s what I found out with apt show emacs-gtk, it shows all the dependencies but I found it quiet odd behavior (lack of knowledge).

    I wasn’t aware of metapackages, something new to put into my knowledge database.

    Edit: While writing my replay and searching through the web and my console, even though I wouldn’t have had understood it while reading it… It actually tells me in the description that emacs is a metapackage… Bad reading skills :/ sorry about that !

    Description: GNU Emacs editor (metapackage) GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This is a metapackage that will always depend on the latest recommended Emacs variant (currently emacs-gtk).


    If you don’t mind I have a last question. Imagine I want to remove docker-ce, which depends on iptables among others, if I sudo apt remove --purge --autoremove docker-ce, this isn’t going to remove iptables and break my system right? Because it’s used by other packages, system… I guess, no?

    I think a more general question would be how can I be sure I not going to fuck my system while removing packages? Maybe I’m to paranoïd and today it’s relatively safe to do so, compared to years ago??

    Thank you :)




  • Yeah NC is way too much bloated and heavily unstable after some long term use. As an alternative for cloud storage I use ownCloud. The newer owncloudIS version needs a bit more maturing before it’s fully functional and less unstable for selfhosters, but the php version is fully functional and the native apps are awesome :).

    While AIO is neat on paper, it’s most of the time buggy and not as good as native tools. Having all your tools bind together is a bad idea in my opinion… Having a hammer that’s also a screwdriver, a scissor… Leave them less functional as having them separated !

    Yeah this takes more space and is less convenient, but the right tool for the right job is a principle that always works in the long term !