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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).

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What would you change about your favorite Linux distribution? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by tet@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Arch install script could be better. The dedicated /home partition is a pain if you don't know what you're doing (I don't know what I'm doing). The encryption thing also breaks a lot of things.

[–] varnia@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Btrfs and subvolumes are your friends. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/btrfs#Subvolumes

[–] cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's the problem with dedicated home?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

If you don't partition correctly and don't allocate enough storage for /home and your root for usr/share, you might run out of space quickly. I put like most of of my storage in /home and soon enough I ran out of space as I was downloading heavier files from the aur. Completely ran out of space on the usr/share partition.