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[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The typical distro's installer will just take care of setting up GRUB for you, don't worry about that. I'm doing something similar with my home partition, except I made a home partition with all the expected user folders ~/Videos ~/Documents ~/Music ~/Games etc and then used overlayFS which keeps ~/.config/ and the like separate for each OS partition while letting me share everything else.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Can I partition /home directory in a different drive and still function?

Yes, easily done.
Open KDE partition manager
Create your new partition in whatever filesystem you like. NTFS can be problematic.
Now copy the contents of /home to the new partition.
Once it's transferred you can delete the contents of /home, or it will interfere with mounting from the new partition.
Now open KDE partition manager again to set the mountpoint of that partition to /home and check "automatically mount on boot"

You can easily repeat this process to move everything to your new new drive later.

In future if you install linux again, you can do this in the installer by simply telling it to mount X partition as Y mountpoint, even saving all your user files across installs!

[–] raven@hexbear.net 87 points 10 months ago

I hope this sentiment never stops someone from uploading a textbook without OCR. Once it's scanned it can always be OCRed at a later time.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently I'm wrong and Pop_Os uses systemD-boot not GRUB, which is surprising to me because unless things have changed I've always thought of systemD-boot as being underpowered for a lot of use cases.

If I'm reading the wiki correctly here, I think it's saying systemd-boot cannot launch windows because it's on another drive? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-boot#Boot_from_another_disk

But on the other hand it's interesting that it's able to "see" the windows partition so I might be completely wrong.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago (6 children)
[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Well it's there at least. Hmm. I don't know a whole lot about windows but you can certainly get back to those boot options you saw before by pressing shift while booting, which will open the GRUB options. I'd give the windows boot manager another shot from there.

If that ends up working you can change the grub settings to wait for input instead of automatically booting pop. If that doesn't work then something is probably wrong with windows and I would just try reinstalling since it sounds like you don't have anything on there yet.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (14 children)

From Pop_OS, if you launch the "disks" program, can you see the other drive there, and the NTFS windows partition on it?

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This reminds me of one of the best bits from the Xanth novels, where the male unicorns peacock for the female unicorns by leaping in the air and landing horn-first in the ground, then see who can balance like that the longest.

Which is second only to the part in the same book where the main character is taking a shit in the woods when a harpy shows up and he has to try to run away with his pants down, unwiped, while the harpy is shouting abuse after him data-laughing

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the warning, didn't know that was a thing!

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh really? I didn't know they made it without. I just checked mine and it says it has >100% of all the b complex vitamins in a serving (2 tbsp). I do live in the US but I got mine online.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Once you discover nutritional yeast it's hard not to get enough B12.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

When people complain about vegan diets lacking in x, y, or z I always point out that our diets are culturally balanced, as well as being balanced by the addition of vitamins to staple foods. If we all became deficient in say, iron, we would start fortifying iron in our water, flour, salt, rice etc, while at the same time we would culturally move towards eating more black beans and spinach than we currently do. When an individual removes a food group from their diet, it's only reasonable that you will have to intentionally rebalance your diet in other places. This isn't a deficiency inherent in a vegan diet.

If you have to supplement a vitamin or mineral that's just part of your diet, so don't @ me with your natural=good nonsense.

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