I've recovered some systems I b0rked by dding from a healthy system or a livedisk to a machine I updated incorrectly, I could have tried just copying from the disk fine and figured it out I'm sure, but I didn't want to open another rabbit hole with the SteamOS update and config. SteamOS has duplicate /, /var, and /boot partitions, and I assume there's some part of the install configuration that sets the active and inactive sets.
Really I was just after testing/listing included bt drivers on some specific hardware for some wonky controllers I have, installation was a secondary thought.
Becoming a "Linux power user" is a harder task than one might suspect, though. More so nowadays, where distros like Ubuntu just work, and you can use it as a daily driver without debugging issues.
It's not anymore. Any issues you run into you just paste into your LLM of choice and it will give you the fix in a couple of back and forths 99% of the time.
A couple of days ago I told Claude to just go ahead and install the android development stack on my arch Linux laptop, and it went though and installed all the packages needed through pacman, download a few packages from Google and extracted them the right spots and added all aliases to my configs files as needed. Took about 10 minutes total and I had a basic android app going in about an hour with its help.
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It really is not hard to install a Linux operating system manually. "Linux power users" should easily be able to handle bespoke installations.
I've recovered some systems I b0rked by dding from a healthy system or a livedisk to a machine I updated incorrectly, I could have tried just copying from the disk fine and figured it out I'm sure, but I didn't want to open another rabbit hole with the SteamOS update and config. SteamOS has duplicate /, /var, and /boot partitions, and I assume there's some part of the install configuration that sets the active and inactive sets.
Really I was just after testing/listing included bt drivers on some specific hardware for some wonky controllers I have, installation was a secondary thought.
Becoming a "Linux power user" is a harder task than one might suspect, though. More so nowadays, where distros like Ubuntu just work, and you can use it as a daily driver without debugging issues.
It's not anymore. Any issues you run into you just paste into your LLM of choice and it will give you the fix in a couple of back and forths 99% of the time.
A couple of days ago I told Claude to just go ahead and install the android development stack on my arch Linux laptop, and it went though and installed all the packages needed through pacman, download a few packages from Google and extracted them the right spots and added all aliases to my configs files as needed. Took about 10 minutes total and I had a basic android app going in about an hour with its help.