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Just don't ask how long it took to get my dGPU working properly :D But thankfully, there were a bunch of helpful folks with tips!

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago (16 children)

Following the ancient traditions, I'm here to tell you that you picked the wrong distro. 😉

But welcome aboard.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (15 children)

Oh undoubtedly!

Hopefully my partitioning was decent though, so distro-hopping shouldn't be too hard if I feel like switching (or even running different distros side-by-side?)

I was personally drawn to it because: it's not Ubuntu; ButterFS seems like a nice safety net; KDE Plasma is sexy AF; noone seems to have anything particularly horrible to say about it.

Why is your chosen distro (obviously) the superior choice?

[–] aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, those are the same reasons I chose tumbleweed. Plus the rolling release.

I hope you made your system partition large enough. I had about 20G for / (excluding /home), which used to be enough for kubuntu, but quickly ran out of space on tumbleweed. I assume because of the Btrfs snapshots.

I reinstalled tumbleweed on a larger partition. Then couldn't install the proprietary codecs, because of an error I couldn't resolve.

Installed it a third time recently, now it runs smoothly.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It suggested 200GiBs for root, which seemed a bit excessive but I didn't argue

[–] InstantWeasel@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

If you intent to run virtual machines with virt-manager (especially if you keep the default path), that 200 Gb will seems short a bit :-)

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

With most PC things (RAM, disk space, CPU, etc etc), too much is better than too little, provided you have the resources.

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