People who don’t run nixos.

There are several tools. Ansible is an excellent cross platform tool for provisioning systems. I use it to manage packages, users, network and firewall configs, etc. across several systems.

Your perfamatry is quite obliqueto.

Language is fluid.

Yeah, they never are. Scientific conclusions are generally a lot more nuanced and cautious than what this guy’s claiming. He only read headlines.

Kids have no idea what a “boomer” is.

the problem with systemd taking over anything also has to do with it offering options that actually lessens efforts

You systemd haters are practically feral. WTF does this have to do with systemd?

You can dislike systemd, its6okay. But there’s no need to be stupid about it.

Yes - things built to work with systemd… require systemd to work.

But you don’t need to use all the systemd services. You can use other tools. Because systemd is not a monolith.

Systemd is feature-rich but controversial. Its monolithic design bundles service management, logging, networking, device management, and more into a single codebase exceeding 1.4 million lines of code.

That is a gross misrepresentation of systemd…

It’s like saying GNU coreutils is monolithic because all of the individual tools combined are bundled together.

Systemd is comprised of many individual applications.

Newbies will ask stupid questions, that’s not their fault.

The people answering should know better than to answer with their favorite distros.

The correct answer is “pick a popular one and don’t worry about the differences, you’re too inexperienced to notice them anyway.”

To be fair - it has gotten a lot better in the last few years. For a while though it was super frustrating.

Holy hell kdenlive has been one of the buggiest apps I have ever used. I’ve wanted to like it so much but just about every time I’ve tried to use it for simple editing, combining clips, etc. it has just crashed at some point.

Now it has gotten more stable lately, but boy did you pick the worst example for stability…

I also wondered why this is a big news

You think this is “big” news? An Ubuntu focused blog reporting on what Ubuntu is doing is not exactly the big time.

I invite you to peruse the man page for cp.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cp.1.html

This seems suspicious

Found 1 remapped NVMe devices.
Switch your BIOS from RAID to AHCI mode to use them.

Have you setup a RAID?

Yes, but some do things better than others.

Ehhhhhh, kinda. “better” is highly subjective. Distros are “bundles of software” and a philosophy about how things are installed / when they are installed / what their default settings are / etc.

A lot of people, especially newbs and less technical folks, grossly misunderstand what those differences are and what they mean.

CachyOS is btrfs by default, and does btrfs better than most.

Bullshit. Not that it’s btrfs by default but that it does it “better” than anyone else is ridiculous. It uses the same kernel driver and user-land tools as my Pop_OS install which is based on Ubuntu 24.04 and which, believe it or not, is running btrfs just fine.

Btrfs is a bit more complex than your vanilla ext4

Kid - I remember when ext4 was released. Very exciting to have a journaling filesystem at the time…

Bazzite excels at gaming related things. Alpine at lightweight stuff, Nix at inmutability, etc…

“excels” at meaning “has steam installed by default” and “makes nvidia drivers easier to install” you mean.

My Pop_OS laptop runs game just fine.

All these distros with their various design goals and bundled packages are variations on a theme. Like different Lego sets that include parts from a common box. But when you use the “btrfs” block you use the same one everyone else does.

And none of them will deal gracefully with a failing disk that the OS has been told not to ignore errors on.

I agree that immutable distro proponents are obnoxious.

Immutable distros wouldn’t have helped in this case.

I hate when people here complain of “bloat” since often it just means “there’s this one thing I don’t use and it irrationally offends me by its existence”.

You can uninstall just about anything you don’t want. So very much not like Windows in that regard.

Are you running out of space? Out of memory? Or simply offended that some functionality you don’t like exists?

When you boot a recovery image does it have any dmesg logs though? You should see something there when you try to mount it

Does “fdisk -l” show all your partitions on that drive?

All distros are. 🙄

It just doesn’t seem logical to me to lock me out of the whole system because a non-essential part is not working/present.

It’s a fair criticism - but the system doesn’t know they are non-critical. You’ve, effectively, told it they are critical in fact.

You can add a nofail option to the drives that aren’t needed to boot in /etc/fstab.

e.g.

UUID=9d1f7f1b-2a78-4b92-a8d5-0b05e7273920 /mnt/backup  btrfs   defaults,nofail,subvol=@backups 0 0

I use this for a disk that’s external and sometimes not connected.