Me exactly. I’m totally definitely for sure going to try out all the more complicated DEs and widget tools (eww, maybe AwesomeWM if I’m willing to learn Lua or Hyprland if I’m willing to try Wayland)… Someday
In the meantime, my BSPWM + Polybar setup is there and works while I procrastinate on trying anything else.
Way, way, way overkill even if it could work. Try doing a search for ‘roaming profiles linux’ and you should find some solutions that are a better fit.
Okay after looking around a little bit it seems LDAP and NFS is the way people usually do it but that’s online only. This guy recommends against it. Then This thread mentions LDAP with NFS again but I’m not sure if NFS will work. We have laptops and might not be connected to the internet. I might say f it and go way, way, way overkill cause why not. Worse thing that can happen is I learn something. I hope it does work
Pretty much the only way around this is to keep the computers in sync at all times using something like Syncthing. Otherwise you will be bound to some sort of network drive thing, be it cephfs, NFS, Samba.
A lot of enterprise grade stuff will also not exactly appreciate extended periods of being offline or powered off without triggering the need for a full resync.
Honestly your best bet might just be some USB drive you keep around.
When you start talking about offline then you’re going to run into consistency issues and conflicts. How will a system automatically determine which edit to a file is correct if they were both edited offline?
I’m fairly certain Ceph is also going to be online only. You won’t be accessing your CephFS filesystems when you take your laptop offline since they’re part of the object store.
Something like Syncthing (as @Max_P suggested) or some other ‘Dropbox-like’ self-hosted solution might be the way to go for what you’re doing. Even then you’ll probably only want to replicate a subset of your home directory - for example I’d skip temp and cache files that a lot of programs create.
If you want to play with Ceph just for the sake of doing so then don’t let me stop you though :)
You can basically create a mini Linux environment of any distro that you can access through the terminal. You can set it to share your home folder, our create a new home folder just for that mini environment.
Behind the scenes Distrobox is creating and managing containers through Podman or Docker. You could technically achieve the same thing by manually setting up Podman containers, Distrobox just makes it very easy to create and maintain those containers with the correct permissions. It also has useful tools where you could install an app in a Distrobox container, but then add that app to your host OS app list.
This makes it especially useful for immutable OSs. Instead of adding packages to your base OS, which should be kept as minimal as possible, you can just install them in a Distrobox, so your host’s root filesystem is unaffected.
In a way, but chroot only isolates file systems (process only has access to an isolated “root” which isn’t the actual host’s root). Rootless Podman/Docker goes a few steps beyond and utilizes cgroups, and user namespaces to isolate not only file systems, but also processes and networking.
Nvidia doesn’t make CPUs, which is what this headline is referring to. The headline is still a bit surprising because Intel’s Linux support is first-class, but yeah, there’s more than a million Steam Decks out there in the wild now, I imagine that accounts for a large chunk of this stat
For me, choosing AMD in my newest laptop over Intel boiled down to iGPU. In previous years I had an Intel with their iGPU, which was underwhelming. For the next one, I chose Intel with a discrete Nvidia card, which was a mistake due to a power drain, proprietary drivers, and all-around hustle. For the first time in decades, I chose AMD CPU, finally lifting away the resentment of anything ATI-related from decades ago. I must say that I am immensely happy with the choice, speed, reliability, power consumption, thermal control, and the iGPU (Rembrandt).
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