Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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    11 hours ago

    I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic, observant, or something else. There have been many a meal where I was asked what I wanted to eat and it’s rare that I go beyond the words “surprise me”, knowing full well that the person asking would eat the same as I was offered, making the “surprise”, less of a risk and more of an adventure.

    In this case, OP asked a completely unanswerable question to which there was absolutely no reasonable answer, since we know nothing about the person, their interests, their experience, the hardware they have access to, or anything remotely resembling a needs analysis.

    So, even my answer, generic and random as it might appear, was based on how I use a computer, namely, to be productive. I’ve been using them for over 40 years, mostly like that, with some sojourns into art and personal expression, not nearly worthy of public scrutiny, but not specifically “productive” as such.

    So … what were you attempting to say?



  • Thank you. Glad I’m not alone in this quest with that kind of history.

    My current desktop is Wheezy inside a VM - also across several platforms, but VMware, by design , doing the heavy lifting.

    Anything of note, essentially everything except Audacity, is running on a Bookworm Docker host with X11 forwarding and reverse mount sshfs, so all the container “sees” is the directory I give it.

    I’ve made several attempts to move away from Wheezy, but there’s too many scripts in my ~/bin directory to make that simple.

    The “fresh paint smell” experience for me comes from a docker pull or docker build, but it does require hardware capabilities that died eight months or so ago, when my 64 GB RAM iMac died. No data loss, just endless frustration.

    At the moment I’m exploring EC2 on demand. I suspect that for the $10k I previously spent on hardware, I can always have the latest on tap, but I’m still trying to get real-time audio editing to not be a weekly disaster. Getting closer, but not quite there yet.

    I’ll have a squiz at NixOS, seems like an interesting approach.

    Much obliged for sharing your experience!













  • I’ve been using Linux for over a quarter of a century. Initially I spent hours attempting to come up with the best partitioning scheme but these days I pick LVM and use the defaults.

    If I run out of space, I add a drive (or grow the virtual one) and gow the filesystem into the extra space.

    Sometimes I need temporary space and use sshfs to mount a directory from another machine.

    In other words, today you have infinite options to adjust according to need, partition schemes are not nearly as important.

    Even swap space can live as a file on a normal partition if required.

    That said. If you have specific use cases, check what’s required. Specifically because different uses need different attributes, it pays to check.