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Simplest put, a fedora immutable usually keeps two images, the one you’ll boot into next reboot, and the one you’re running. If a rpm-ostree update hasn’t been run it’ll be the one you’re running and the last one. My bazzite (heavier than silverblue I guess) images are ~ 14Gb, you need room for three (the two you’re using and room for downloading the next) plus 3% of your hard drive because fedora says so, so 3*14 = 42 + .03 * 240 = 42 + 7.2 = 49.2 =~ 50Gb.

Wait a sec, when I actually do a

sudo du -sh /sysroot/ostree/deploy/fedora/deploy/*

I get 14Gb for my previous one and 2.1Gb for my current one, so there’s some diff black magic fuckery (ostree chunking) going on, which makes sense because it’s not taking that long to download. So 50Gb would be super safe, you might get away with 25 depending on how different the two images are (i.e. how much has been updated), but updating to the next major fedora version (e.g. 42->43) would be iffy.

Upshot is, it shouldn’t have filled to 90-something in the first place (maybe before ostree chunking, but even then), but if you end up with a lot of entries in your GRUB they’re all taking a notable chunk of space and you’ll need to purge some.

Valid. In fact the (thunderbolt) power port will self-destruct over a year or two without a firmware update (overheats), Lenovo used to replace 'em for free, not sure what the situation is now. I was lucky and got mine new in box (but at the second hand price) after the bios update was available, but it’s something you should look out for when buying second hand. FWIW there’s also a power port in the dock connector.

Fair enough.

T480 still has dual batteries and is plenty repairable / mod-able, thick / tough enough.

Pretty sure that’s all of them.

Other options include indie gamedev, various forms of consulting (can be high pay but likely high pressure and at least corporate adjacent), find a big enough niche or a bunch of small ones (hard part) and fill it with software for patreon or similar, phone apps, socially conscious coding (e.g. network alternatives ala meshtastic, here’s an idea I had, meat on those bones), it’ll take a while, but if you fill a need people will support. Good luck.

I…. am not actually sure if you’re joking or not.

Bit of Column A, bit of column B…

Maybe it should have been ‘Take how long you think it will take at first blush’. Scotty’s method is good with a bit more experience.

Take how long you think it will take, double the number and increase the units (at least until you’re senior). e.g. 2 days -> 4 weeks

Easy enough to put a repo on a usb drive if that’s what you want, or indeed if you build the folder structure you can just copy. Fine for the occasional install, if you’re doing it wholesale, Ansible.

TLDR: It’s been revised to 3.58% from 3.19%

Also, what’s up with those dips in March ?

First up… backups…

You’ve got all your data on a single 8TB external drive?

This. RAID IS NOT A BACKUP !!! Sorry for shouting, but it’s that important. It’s a main storage tolerant of disk failure, you still need backups or you’re one bad ‘rm -rf’ away from losing data.

First get that second 8Tb, or better yet a 16+Tb (see serverpartdeals.com or your local equivalent for good prices on manufacturer recertified drives) so you have room to grow. Now copy that 8Tb onto it and disconnect it from your computer. Congratulations, you have a cold backup and are pretty well protected from data loss, much better than a RAID.

You can now think about a NAS with confidence, but preferably before that get another drive copy your data again and take it to a friend / relative / safety deposit box (even bury it in the back yard in something waterproof). Now you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy and you’re pretty damn well insulated against data loss.

TLDR: Backup first, NAS later.

Eh, I did 4 or 5 years on Arch, broke a lot, learned a lot, got tired of that and retired to Fedora, now Bazzite. I would recommend Arch or Cachy to someone with technical chops, which is a surprising amount of PC gamers, who wants to get up to speed fast on linux. I’ll recommend ArchWiki regardless. Then there are the others who just want to game with minimal friction, for them, Bazzite. Horses for courses… Hard agree on Ubuntu.

Old thinkpad with linux?

Duh, but it shines in immutable. Enjoy your debian, I like it too, for servers.

It’s AMD to start (7800XT), so if the screens off it uses like 6-8W anyway, then undervolt with LACT.

I think you as yet don’t quite understand the full beauty of immutable distros. Running things in distroboxes, yeah even other distros, is not a bug, it’s a feature (really) because you cannot break your main OS with a distrobox. As a developer it’s a godsend, finnicky AI project that needs a specific version of python and CUDA drivers and only has instructions for Arch ? That’s a distrobox, spin it up, play with it, archive it for later, put it away.

There’s tiers in Bazzite, for GUI apps, flatpak, if what you want isn’t there, it’s in a distrobox Arch in AUR and you can integrate it as an application into the main OS. Stuff that truly needs system level access, like zsh and intel-undervolt gets layered into the main OS with rpm-ostree. There’s security benefits as well like SELinux, but this post has gone on long enough.

It is so not an iPhone.

My second screen is a laptop (T580), also bazzite, often running moonlight to the big monitor so the main box goes to low power mode when not in use (it’s also the NAS, so no sleep, but mostly lives @ ~50W, got the GPU down to 4W idle :)

This. If you must have rooted containers docker-compose is only a

rpm-ostree install docker-compose

away, but that’s a big ass layer, you’ll feel it every update, and insecure to boot (yes I know docker finally got userspace, but how many times have you seen it used? Everywhere it’s root.). Run your docker-compose file through podlet, and there you go, userspace quadlets (95+% of the time, every time…). They’re easy to love once you get your head around them.

Agreed, when SteamOS gets more general hardware supporty things will get interesting, but Bazzite is a desktop with superlative Steam support, while SteamOS is more a steam console with desktop support. When people, especially newbs, want to do desktop things with their general purpose machines, on SteamOS they’re using Arch (bleeding edge, lower stability), while Bazzites get Fedora (sharp edge, higher stability and security) which should be a less painful and frustrating experience. Of course if there’s a flatpak (possibly the third step) it’ll be painless on either, and hey, everybody wins (except winblows) in either case.