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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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is there a foss project to automatically sort files (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by jackpot@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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do you know that minecraft mod that autosorts your inventory? is there are project that can autosort a messy file system and put all of your files of a similar nature into a well organised, well named order. obviously this would require ai that could do image, language, and audio recognition but is there anything in the works? i can imagine this would speed up distrohopping by 10x. ai powered file management

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[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

i can imagine this would speed up distrohopping by 10x

I am confusion. It seems like this wouldn't help much with distro-hopping at all. At least not the way I learned to reinstall OSes, i.e. keep /home and make sure to back up important config files you edited.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

hi confusion

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Would it be possible just to copy /home to a separate drive and then point a fresh install to that location?

This is actually a great idea but I didn't separate my home when I installed my current distro

[–] halm@leminal.space 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, you absolutely can mount a different path to /home with fstab after installation. How you decide to sort your files in /home (or have them sorted by automation) has zero influence on distro hopping.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 months ago

wait so how do you 'keep home', im confused explain your process