That is haunting.
I tend to be pretty cavalier with my data, because only recently have I started amassing anything of value (starting to be the adult I needed to be 10 years ago).
Yes... I have some storage shopping to do.
It was waaay past midnight when I made my mistake. I should have been sleeping at least 3 hours before.
Good tip! I... would maybe have realized that would worsen the situation.
Okay, fleek is looking like everything I need to be happy. Learning about devbox made me excited too.
Damn, I am about ready to start doing some actual work, hah. Get back to programming actually start making things.
No, Silverblue + distrobox is enough for me. Fleek will probably help solve some of my package edge cases I have been struggling to resolve.
Computing is fun.
I super appreciate all of the tips! I thought I was good installing Bazzite with a fresh install using an ISO, made sure to pick the NVIDIA option... it just failed to load the drivers, and showed a gray screen switching to open drivers. I know what I am not buying when I uprade in like 5 years.
That usb become necessary.
Anyways, before falling unconsious (finally going to sleep... and waking up early damn) I played with NixOS in a VM. I have sooooo much to learn... so I think I will just install the package manager, and gorge on the cake I get to keep.
Not yet! I was surprised that home directory is shared across containers, but it makes sense when the system is the problem, not the files in home. Still, it is nifty to keep certain environments separated.
I think I am using Wayland since that is the default.
Also, I once made the mistake of running on DX11, which was worse.
Hah. What the hell would upscaling a sedan even get me. My car car play CDs!!
... I think I am good.
Everything you typed out was a painful rediscovery on my part. I basically had to ignore my principles at every moment, but using Windows eventually became too gross, I had to get out.
For the money I spent experimenting with proprietary software, I could have donated to projects making the alternatives.
This is not a lesson I will need to learn again.
I think that is one time download of a library so the app can run. Also, any other app that needs it.
It seems to me that the biggest complaint people have with flatpaks are the space it takes.
I wonder if the blow up in GBs was an early buggy behavior?
That is so strange. I think people are underestimating how important up-to-date packages are for certain kinds of workflows, and short of reinstalling everything onto a rolling distro, the only sane solution is something like Flatpak, or directly installing every new binary as it comes out, which can suck and does not guarantee having all dependencies.
Beautiful! Thank you so much. It is very nostalgic for me too.
Damn. Just a minute going to donate to archive.org. It needs to keep existing.
Something I am learning is that an install of a distro can last as long as you want it to.
Curiosity leads us to mistakes, but more often to things much cooler than what we knew before!
A computer is like a second home the more I think about it.
I am glad you learned a lot from those experiences!