Linux

48375 readers

1785 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

184

What are some things you wish you had known when switching to Linux? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

135 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it's the package manager.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SneakyThunder 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That mounting drives with their uuid as the mount location is insane

Why tho? Kernel sometimes can index drives in different order (if you have multiple drives), screwing your mount locations. But UUID is always the same

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can give your partitions labels and mount by label. Labels are persistent, like UUIDs, but are also easier to remember and copy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But why would I even try to remember them? Just look them up. Nowadays I don't even see them since I use Gnome Disk Utility or KDE partition manager to automount them (they both just write to your /etc/fstab)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But why would I even try to remember them? Just look them up.

For me, I used labels when setting up those volumes manually. Creating a LUKS container, setting up LVM groups and volumes, configuring my bootloader to decrypt the correct encrypted disk, etc. It was just easier to remember which device label was my encrypted container, which was the group, and what the different volumes were. And once the labels were made, well, I just used them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's just really long is all. I wish I had given it something shorter but descriptive.