What tweaks or programs do you wish you had known with fresh install?

What things do you know that would be really good to do with freshly installed system? Or things that you wish had done earlier?

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illusionist@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 326d (3 replies)

on my server? Cockpit

happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 326d (1 reply)

Cockpit is great! I learned about it recently and immediately tried it out on a lab machine, and shortly after deployed it across my systems.

brap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d

I just learned about it now!

WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 326d

Link to the project for others who are interested

Montagge@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 326d (3 replies)

Install Bottles and HeoricGamesLauncher.

Put home on a different drive from the get go.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d (2 replies)

Put home on a different drive from the get go.

Explain why?

Montagge@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 326d (1 reply)

Originally I had the OS and home on a 256GB SSD. Now the OS is on a 256GB SSD and home is on a 1TB SSD.

I can also completely wipe away the drive with the OS on it. Reinstall the same distro or install a different distro, point fstab to that drive, and bam all my home files are right there.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 309d

Is this possible after the fact ?

melfie@lemy.lol · 7 pts · 326d (2 replies)
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CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 326d

Looks like someone on github even created a script to automatically install and configure grub-btrfs and snapper on Fedora.

fedora_grub-btrfs_snapper_sh

melfie@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 326d
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sga@piefed.social · 4 pts · 326d
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bishoponarope@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d

Setup zram if your OS doesn't already

warmaster@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 326d
  • rollback from grub
  • rpm-ostree reset

I'm on Bazzite, first time doing wacky stuff like a year and half or so ago... ended up in an unnecessary reinstall.