Subj : Re: Partitions setup; good?
To   : paulie420
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Mon Aug 17 2020 19:10:23

On 17 Aug 2020, paulie420 said the following...
 
 pa> Yea, thats what I was talking about up there. Ok, so I guess I should
 pa> also invest more time in learning the exact file structure of linux. I
 pa> thought /bin was where my apps were.. 
 pa> 
 pa>  Me> At work we have separate partitions for / /home /var /usr /usr/local 
 pa>  Me> /root /boot for most projects.
 pa> 
 pa> Ok... that helps too, knowing how you tackle this is a production
 pa> setting... As a home user, I don't think I need to go overboard... but
 pa> this is nice to know. :P 

Always good to know what your partitions are used for =) There are prolly
hundreds of decent videos on YT about this stuff. 

Also, in case you venture down this particular path... those partitions I
mentioned above are slightly different for BSD variants =) But then you
probably wouldn't even want to consider hopping from Linux to BSD and keeping
anything except your home files haha.

 pa>  Me> Not sure if any of this helps, or at least confirms what you already
 pa>  Me> know =)
 pa> 
 pa> VERY much so. The other replies were great and helpful... yours
 pa> delivered the answers that I needed. Thanks a ton - I think I'll use
 pa> more of what you described on another laptop I have laying around and
 pa> then actually switching some distros after a month. :P THANKS.

Sounds good, it's always fun to try new distros etc, I am quite fond of my
Ubuntu setup right now, I think the only distro I might consider ever
changing to would be one called Pop_OS! by System76. It's Ubuntu/Debian
based, but it has been heavily customised to work best for gamers and the
latest version even has a tiling window manager in it as standard, although
it's not any comparison to the likes of i3-gaps (which I use) or dwm.

 pa> :P I hopped around a lot... and ARCH system was customizable, but almost
 pa> to much... KDE Neon was cool, but finicky and had many bugs- even if
 pa> they were user-creations.. :P I ended up on Kubuntu, I like the ease of
 pa> Ubuntu and being able to change anything I WANT to w/ KDE... 

Ah yeah Arch is nice, considered by many as a hardcore Linux distro, Mandrake
Linux is Arch based but I believe it has a slightly easier more user
friendly way to install and look after lol. I have considered Arch before
myself, but I might do that on my TP sometime in the future rather than my
desktop.

I gave up on Desktop Environments a few years back when I found i3 (tiling
window manager). It's so much better for me, I prefer keyboard shortcuts over
mouse movement, and find I can do all my day to day stuff pretty much solely
on the keyboard. Gaming is different, but that still works in the twm, it's
just I prefer keyboard shortcuts over using a mouse.


If you're interested in these tiling window managers, I would recommend
looking up Luke Smith on YT and his Arch/i3 installation or LARBS
installation I think he calls it. He is a smart cookie, and I think you'll
enjoy what he has to offer.

Best of luck, anytime you want advice or help and if I can offer anything
useful I'll be glad to help.

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