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girlwarlock · 2 months ago

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okay so i was able to make a linux filesystem partition on my non-boot hdd which is meaningful bc it allows me to tell timeshift to save its backups there which i think means my backups will be safe if I ever need to wipe my boot ssd? like i think the point of timeshift is to allow a backup that makes you less likely to need to wipe your boot drive if you ever fuck things up too badly, but i still want to lose the minimum amt of stuff if i ever do need to wipe ssd

in that vein... based on how the "welcome to mint!" dealio described timeshift... it looks like if I remove the /home/girlwarlock/ exclusion from the timeshift settings, it should copy my steam games as part of the backup.

Is that correct? the partition i made is over twice the size of my entire boot SSD (bc i'm also using it for other purposes), so there's definitely room--if I ended up needing to wipe the SSD, would that setup (where timeshift snapshots are set to include /home/girlwarlock/ and saved to HDD) allow me to, for instance, restore BG3 from timeshift (at ~100MB/s [~800mbps], which is about how fast my computer copies between the SSD and the HDD), rather than redownloading it from steam (at ~5MB/s [~40mbps] and also burning through my generous but finite monthly data allowance for my internet)?

#linux mint #linux gaming #linux help #linux noobie #new to linux #linux fuckery #the other thing i'm trying to do is have the “music” and “video” folders on the left pane in my graphical file manager #go directly to a file on the SSD so that I'm not saving all my dumb internet videos on the SSD which has a premium on space #it's only 500gb and it's where programs live so I want to maximize the amount of free space available there #i found instructions on the linuxmint forums for how to do this kind of thing but they're over ten years old #and the descriptions i find when i run $ mount --help ***look like*** the 2011 instructions will still work?#except for this one method described there which the forum post explicitly describes as not working since mint fucking 12 #but fucking with the drives is how i bought myself into using mint full-time (rather than dual-booting like i intended)#so i'm very hesitant to do something that feels so much like fucking with the drives unless i'm certain it won't bork anything #i backed up my entire hdd to an external drive before i even attempted the 50% partition that i did bc i was scared of fucking things up

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adrian-sheppy · 1 year ago

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UR ART IS SO EPIC AWESOME INSANE **AND** U LIKE LINUX?????????????????????? HELLO? UR JUST LIKE ME FR? ?? do u think freemind would be an “i use arch. btw” kind of guy

YAY THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! im pretty noobie at linux rn tbh but its so much fun to learn about YAY. some day , I hope all my pcs will be linux based ... sighs whimsically

anyways. canonically (unfortunately) freemind doesnt really like computers (because they "blow up" when he uses them). BUT. after complaining about how computers sucks for yhe millionth time , felix and/or barney put arch on his pc and now he is so elitist about it. he is an arch guy in his heart and he would be so annoying about it too

he uses arch btw. just in case you couldnt tell.

#you should totally share any linux resources you have with me if you have any #(no pressure . i just like 2 learn . smiles )#mindverse #half life #gordon freemind #freeman's mind #freemind #barney's mind #barmey calhoun #asks #comically large arch mug

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kirito-1011 · 5 years ago

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Using Linux Mint Mate

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I am a noobie at using Linux. I’ve never done it before and I’ve only heard of using virtual machines and usbs to boot Linux. I know that a disadvantage of USB is that everything that I’ve done will go away after I stop running. Is there any other way of using Linux that makes it local to my computer, just like the current windows OS?

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