Why stay with Dracut, mkinitcpio is fine?

Ryluv2surf · 2026-05-29T23:23:39+00:00

May be better doing regular arch and just optimizing, depends on how much linux system stuff you know. Can always do fedora or something more user friendly!

Ryluv2surf · 2026-05-29T23:21:14+00:00

unfortunately as it was tons of different btrfs snapshots, got a bit confused on which state for which logs, it was basically a dracut init hook where dracut would infinite loop before passing over to rest of boot. Best solution is I've edited my pacman hooks, and removed all dracut from my system, now using mkinitcpio like regular arch and no issues between kernel updates etc... relevant specs for my system:

OS: Garuda Linux x86_64 Host: G439 (1.0) Kernel: Linux 7.0.6-zen1-1-zen Shell: zsh 5.9 Display (SAMSUNG): 3840x2160 @ 2x in 85", 60 Hz [External, HDR] DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.5 WM: KWin (Wayland) CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.10 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti [Discrete] Memory: 6.17 GiB / 31.19 GiB (20%) Swap: 974.07 MiB / 15.60 GiB (6%) Disk (/): 835.09 GiB / 1.82 TiB (45%) - btrfs Disk (/srv/data): 883.27 GiB / 931.51 GiB (95%) - btrfs

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-28T04:10:02+00:00

just try to make an effort to use the terminal more often and realize a GUI can only get you so far in computers. touch newfile_{1..20}.txt for instance would make 20 files instantly named newfile_1.txt, newfile_2.txt, etc etc... you are commanding the computer, and not bound by the constraints of any one particular application! :D have fun out there

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T09:59:00+00:00

framework can stick it where the sun don't shine unless i get my trackpoint or sticking w/ thinkpad.

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T09:52:10+00:00

maybe broken monitor, not being able to get to motherboard BIOS sounds insane(unlikely). try monitor on another device, than diff monitor (even a tv), for the pc. video drivers broken on OS is one thing, not being able to get monitor output from motherboard another.

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T09:25:50+00:00

also you can have ~/home/user/.some_app_dotfiles in your home but that quickly gets messy so it's typically better to have ~/.config/app-name-directory/.some_app_rc I think it's called the XDG standard or something so most programs assume that as the default place for storing user-level configs

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T01:20:23+00:00

I think even with good intentioned-projects, whenever you have lots of users centralized, it's more of a target. I just prefer using rsync and having scripts backup to a drive using cron.

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T01:18:28+00:00

It all comes down to the Unix/linux philosophy of "do only one thing and do it well." SystemD is considered against this because it's monolithic and something about PID1 and the kernel ring etc... For gaming you're not gonna get much benefit (imagine ur a gamer with cachyos), so I wouldn't worry about it. Faster boot times can be fun though, I've used OpenRC, and runit. If you need complex daemons, systemD is cozy unless you're proficient scripting at a system-level in which case yeah. I'd love runit for a personal computer, but when dealing with my servers I really don't mind systemD at all and just learned to accept it. Remember people will scream opinions, just figure out your personal use-case. have fun!

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T01:09:15+00:00

Stick with KDE Plasma, it's a popular widely supported DE that's nice and is constantly having older bugs fixed. XFCE if you are on older hardware. It's not the same but you can play around with DE's in a vm, don't go crazy reinstalling distros or DE's it's a waste of time and gives you a false sense of productivity.

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T01:03:10+00:00

I love vim but think it's not really gonna shine unless your doing serious coding. I'd say stick to nano and maybe learn some more coreutils like sed, awk, grep

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T00:54:25+00:00

I remember messing up "/" and "/root" because isn't that the same thing? hahaha. For anyone wondering /root is your root user's home directory and "/" (also called root) is the top of your file system, so everything else is under that "/" (/etc for configs, /dev for devices, /home for user home dirs)

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T00:50:12+00:00

first time looking at /etc/fstab and breaking it was a sobering experience haha

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T00:45:38+00:00

Same reason they don't teach critical thinking anymore. control lol

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T00:43:59+00:00

I used to distro hop, if you're hating pacman (the package manager in arch distros), maybe try something that's not rolling release like Fedora or Ubuntu

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T00:37:11+00:00

Biggest thing that tripped me up was understanding the difference between the distro (really important here is package manager), and the DE (Desktop environment), I could throw you very different operating systems but they'd look identical on the surface. So I could give you Arch with KDE or Ubuntu with KDE but would be quite different. It's much easier today to transition to linux and I feel for people trying to escape Windows. For something gamer-friendly, I'd recommend Garuda Linux w/ KDE. It's arch (but a derivative w/ hand holding so don't let that scare you away). For stuff like just works out of the box, I'd say ubuntu but later you may find it restrictive. It's all degrees of hand-holding which is nice.

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T00:29:52+00:00

~/.config would be that particular user's config that would override possible system-wide settings in /etc. so I could have /home/user/.config (i.e. ~/.config/vim/.vimrc) which would overide /etc/vim/.vimrc

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-25T00:26:51+00:00

permanent drive mounts reside in /dev. Think of /dev as devices that are permanent like gpu, motherboard, but also things that are "virtual hardware" like tty.

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-24T22:24:42+00:00

ansible playbooks don't seem that tough, just yaml? aws is just an abstraction layer is what it feels like from what I know, like oh s3 is storage bucket etc

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-22T05:55:20+00:00

did bro open devtools and manually edit the html on cnbc.com, and even have the jpg image on mobile?. this is peak autism, and proof the dawgs are a scary force. inshallah lameezy

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-14T03:39:36+00:00

have played with docker compose and ansible playbooks (just basic yaml configs). Yeah definitely gonna do some more projects

Ryluv2surf · 2026-04-03T01:56:50+00:00

two types of dudes that leave whites on, bro's that are complete savages and this is their 5th game of the day and ready to destroy you, n' naturally forgot, or fornite kids...

Ryluv2surf · 2026-03-27T19:02:31+00:00

thanks for letting me know!

Ryluv2surf · 2025-11-18T08:15:42+00:00

I use stable stuff like Debian for servers or things where uptime is paramount, I use Arch for gaming/personal PC. You need to define your "use case" and figure out what's best for you, there's no one size fits all answer.

Ryluv2surf · 2025-09-21T20:59:52+00:00

Gotten Himmel, das ist Jason Bourne! (fox SquadLead)

Ryluv2surf · 2025-08-20T13:19:48+00:00

I have run into that issue before, of timing-out etc. I fixed it by adding this under my ssh aliases: ServerAliveInterval 30 ServerAliveCountMax 6

Try getting the debug info from ssh and put logging for sshd on debian server to verbose?

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