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Tips for a new Linux user (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello!

I've bought new parts and I am awaiting their arrival so I can build my brand new computer. I've decided to go for Arch Linux with KDE plasma or perhaps Gnome as my desktop environment but that's as far as I've come.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Xw4sRv

I figured I would ask the community if they have any tips or suggestions, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Once you've picked your flavour I'd say choose how you want to partition and manage backups / snapshots. I see you have 2 ssds, so are you planning on raiding them with something like btrfs? Do you want to encrypt your drives?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, I am not going to use RAID. The only reason I have two SSDs is just for the extra space for games and all my projects I work on. Drive encryption is not something I have thought about, not sure if it's beneficial for me.

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

Cool. So what I've found useful is to spend a little bit of time upfront to decide how you want to do your partitions, and what file systems. So, for example, I don't care about backing up projects (yay git) and their build artifacts, don't care about .cache, but do want backups of .config and my steam library. I use btrfs for snapshots, and btrfs send that to my NAS, but obviously a lot of stuff can be restored easily so that's bind mounts.

Or use LVM (with or without LUKs) and at least give yourself some wiggle room for later.