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hello sir are you enjoying being a linux user so far?
William Perry
how do you manage configs and stuff?
Owen Ramirez
my computer would be on either way i have been a linux user for, well around 20 years i suppose. i don't really enjoy it anymore but there is nothing better for me that i have time to learn.
Ryan Miller
>your posst isn't worth the elecricity it needs >posst You just wasted ram and disk space therefore electricity by adding an extra s there.
Josiah Ross
edit them as needed to configure my system to my liking back up my system including configs so if i need i can restore them after a catastrophe
Anthony Lewis
Nothing special, just editing them when needed mainly.
Jace Hill
i mean portability between different machines, do you use specific tools or just git the whole system
Evan Hughes
Ansible
Adrian James
i have one main desktop and my laptop is set up pretty similar but i dont share configs much if i want to know config from my desktop to copy over i ssh/sftp to it and copy/paste it.
but for work we use ansible which can do that. it's pretty heavy i guess we have a whole VM just to deal with deployments like that. maybe worth looking into or something similar but more light.
Camden Taylor
Help me please! My acer laptop does not suspend at all on Fedora Workstation 36 (I think the distro does not matter). Please tell me what should I do to make my acer laptop suspend properply?
William Mitchell
I change my computer once every few years. I just copy the home dir then.
Cooper Campbell
is it encrypted ?? that will affect the ability to hibernate. i think you need a separate partition for it. if not then im thinking, what happens when you type sudo pm-suspend
Cameron Robinson
GNU Stow is probably the simplest solution if you just want to manage your dotfiles all in one place like a git repo
Kayden Bennett
etckeeper
Hudson Campbell
too much work
Henry Jones
I already fixed it. Didn't know that my laptop has a page on archwiki.
Jace Rodriguez
"dotfiles" as in user configs? What is there to manage about them? just copy over your $HOME lol
Asher Jackson
how?
Caleb Ortiz
link to fix for future viewers!!!
Lincoln Evans
have to set it up, remember to add configs, remember to commit backups are just automatic. more work to restore old versions from but how often you really need an old version of a config file? for me its like maybe 3 times a year I want to see something I deleted.
Eli James
Manage them by separating the user-edited configs from the auto-generated configs, and version controlling them so you can rollback, store them online, etc. Yeah it seems like over-managing, but that's how some people operate.
