Post AxKPhnd8fnlsx0mPZ2 by kastope@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxK5IXN9z3kWCnyyci by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-19T09:10:14Z
       
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       My wife just set up her first #Linux on a computer via the #Debian 13 #Trixie netinstall: https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ via USB thumb drive I provided for her.I was sitting nearby but she accomplished the task all by herself. I just explained what "LVM" means as this was not explained properly by the Debian installer.You can do it as well!If still unsure, visit https://endof10.org/ and join one of the meetings listed by your local community.Today, there is a #LinuxCafé in #Graz: https://events.graz.social/@linux_cafe I'll be there as well.#Debian13 #EndOf10
       
 (DIR) Post #AxKPhnd8fnlsx0mPZ2 by kastope@mastodon.social
       2025-08-19T12:58:53Z
       
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       @publicvoit I did too!
       
 (DIR) Post #AxKR8EmGSlyQd6DcWG by otte_homan@theblower.au
       2025-08-19T13:14:48Z
       
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       @publicvoit ... nice! Well done!. I upgraded from 12/Bookworm to 13/Trixie yesterday. The only problem I had was that my 12/Bookworm install (relatively young) only had reserved 10GB for the (separate, in LVM) /var partition and thus did not have sufficient free space to download all the apt/deb packages into /var/cache/apt ... I had to trick it a bit into thinking that cache was obviously stored in /home/cache/apt and then it was fine. Restored settings back to the usual /var/cache/apt and now I'm running 13/Trixie with around 884MB free space on /var ... that should do until 14 comes out 🙂
       
 (DIR) Post #AxKYHVkPRBPJXxihiy by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-19T14:34:58Z
       
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       @otte_homan Well, I still have to do the migration for my main host which runs on Debian 12. I'll do that when all my notebooks are up and running with their final configuration in place.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxKfd4f1WemfaXQjDc by zymurgic@mastodon.online
       2025-08-19T15:57:19Z
       
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       @publicvoit LVM is quite a technicality to throw in front of a novice user. That's an issue for a lot of linux distributions - it often assumes you already know about stuff like disk partitioning, and even Linux-specific stuff like logical volumes spread across multiple disks.Many computer users these days don't even know where their data is stored, let alone care about whether you're overlaying a logical volume over disk partitions or what partition table scheme you want.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxL0OeSUFKLRJ5WvrM by jnuyttens@mastodon.social
       2025-08-19T19:50:00Z
       
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       @publicvoit Wow, you are so next-level. I was thrilled that my wife is (happy to) use Linux Mint on her laptop my 17-year old boy installed.Linux works for regular users, the time it was just for techies like us is long past. Cheers!
       
 (DIR) Post #AxL4RHRMgPRubRVwxs by steltenpower@social.edu.nl
       2025-08-19T20:35:17Z
       
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       @publicvoit Very nice! Filed a bug report on the "L V what?" ?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxL5fQiz3rg7PD4BMm by publicvoit@graz.social
       2025-08-19T20:49:04Z
       
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       @steltenpower Hm. Need to think about that.