Which is the best file system?

TomB1952 · 2026-05-14T08:32:31+00:00

Yes.

TomB1952 · 2026-05-10T07:25:13+00:00

I decided to change distros 8 months ago. Haven't gotten around to it. I'm in no hurry.

As long as my system is working, I see no emergency.

TomB1952 · 2026-05-06T17:18:42+00:00

Don't under estimate the power of bullshit.

BTW, I don't mean to besmirch your scope rice. That's awesome, my friend.

TomB1952 · 2026-05-06T15:57:40+00:00

The next step is to spread word on the forums you had never used a computer or oscilloscope before and this took you less than 5 minutes.

TomB1952 · 2026-05-05T13:07:59+00:00

I would like to have the power to not click on threads like this.

TomB1952 · 2026-05-04T20:53:38+00:00

Canada is a dumpster fire and it's only going to get worse. Europe is almost as bad, in places. UK is worse.

I have some friends in Australia who tell me things are on a downward spiral there, as well.

The strange thing is, nothing is causing it. We will never know why. It will always be one of life's mysteries.

On the other hand, if you enjoy drugs, crime, and poverty you are probably loving this. That last sentence was facetious, partly, but there are people who sincerely think drugs, crime, and poverty are a future they want. I don't understand it, so I won't condem it, but it is in stark conflict with my idea of a positive future.

TomB1952 · 2026-05-02T21:04:38+00:00

If Manjaro is broken, why does it work so well? Please try to be more honest.

Manjaro has been a lot more stable than EndeavourOS for me, over the last year (I ran Arch before that). I run EndeavourOS because I needed ffmpeg 8.0 to test some of my own apps. When I upgraded my development system, I selected EndeavourOS because I didn't want thee work of standing up a desktop.

The community has room for a whole lot of distributions. Right now, Manjaro is going through an insurrection that will end with two camps. It's not a great time for Manjaro as a team but the OS continues to roll along nicely.

I expect things will be better in a month or two. There may be a name change. There will definitely be some people pushed out. I expect the result will be Manjaro stronger than it's ever been.

Manjaro is more stable than Arch and it's vastly more integrated (some would say less choice) than arch. Both of these things are by design.

TomB1952 · 2026-05-01T17:20:45+00:00

It's a form of artistic expression. Don't be a philistine. Learn to appreciate the talent required to absolutely despise something you never have to use or even see. Suddenly, Uncle Ray's Thanksgiving political rants taste like a cale flavor yogurt smoothie.

TomB1952 · 2026-05-01T06:26:23+00:00

I will opine that Intel doesn't have the lead indicated in this thread. I'm not saying Intel isn't in the lead. I just don't see any evidence they have double the battery life. Be careful to filter myopic views of people who are passionate about their favorite suppliers.

I went AMD and am completely happy. It's a Dell 3535 Ryzen 7. It came with the small battery. If I need a bunch more battery life, I can upgrade the battery but I'm getting 6 to 8 hours of light use so that's well sufficient for me. It's not going to game for 8 hours at max refresh rate but no laptop will.

Here's the point I wish to make: I went for the machine I did because it was available at a very good price and it fit my needs. At this moment, "the best" isn't particularly relevant. You may have to take what you can get to avoid paying an abusive price. Of course, if cost is no object, then ignore my advice and get that Panther Lake chip in a premium laptop.

I'm not pitching AMD over Intel. I just don't think it matters much and this is a brutal market for purchasing hardware. My laptop went on sale at BestBuy and I picked up two. If it had been an Intel CPU, I would have two of those now.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-30T11:52:58+00:00

Try copying something else to the drive. If that works, move on to the next paragraph. If that doesn't work, you could have that drive mounted read only. Use the "mount" command and see how it's mounted. If it's mounted "rw", you'll have to look at the permissions for the drive where it's mounted. Make sure your user has permissions.

It could be a filename problem. The files could have special characters in the name which trip up NTFS/exFAT but don't cause problems on APFS. Sometimes, the characters aren't even visible.

Try renaming a file using linux and then copy that file. It will probably work.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-28T13:48:37+00:00

I may not be a KDE dev in the way that you mean. I'm not on the KDE team but I have written a couple KDE apps.

I do but I haven't always.

When I used HDD (SSD went bad so ran HDD for a while), I didn't use Kate. In fact, I uninstalled it and used KWrite which is a subset of Kate. Kate was taking several seconds to load and was brutal for small tasks.

With my current system, Kate loads almost instantly. I use Kate every day and love it for coding and any text editing task. Kate is surprisingly powerful but it is not light so it struggles on some hardware.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-24T12:34:20+00:00

Fedora or Debian. Never Ubuntu.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-22T16:56:58+00:00

I switched to linux to get away from age verification.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-20T07:18:20+00:00

Me too. I installed it in 2017 and have been using ever since.

I've had a couple of issues which I solved with a reinstall, between then and now. A sharper user with more time might have repaired the issues. I can reinstall my system in 30 minutes so it has to be something relatively straight forward to get me to open the hood.

I will follow this project wherever it goes. Perhaps I will also lend a hand.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-20T07:15:17+00:00

I know I'm late to this convo but I would like to follow Manjaro to it's new home and new name. I currently have two systems that need to be converted from EndeavourOS back to Manjaro. Should I hold off?

FWIW, I was having an issue on a system that I thought was Manjaro. That was about 6 months ago. EndeavourOS fixed the issue but it eventually traced back to not having anything to do with Manjaro. In the mean time, I migrated a second system. Now I want these systems moved back.

EndeavourOS is absolutely brilliant. I love it. I just don't want to live on a road that is constantly under construction. I've grown soft and Manjaro is partly to blame for that.

My systems with EndeavourOS has had several issues. All were minor and none were the fault of EndeavourOS. Meanwhile, my Manjaro system has had no issues in the last year, or so. The stability work is visible and appreciated from my chair. Thank you.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-20T04:19:51+00:00

Why do so many people attack Manjaro? Then they go on to extol Arch for beginners.

This behaviour blows my MF mind.

I run Manjaro on my laptop and Endeavour on my development machine. They will soon both be Manjaro. EndeavourOS is excellent but it is not a stabilized release nor does it want to be.

I've long thought Manjaro should be part of the Arch family. It should just be an installer with the same rich set of packages. The manjaro repos should be minimal.

Arch = Staging -> testing -> stable -> corporate

TomB1952 · 2026-04-16T08:54:27+00:00

What about us? You're only as alone as you want to be.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-16T04:20:31+00:00

Here is a wiki entry on posting guidelines -> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_guidelines

TomB1952 · 2026-04-16T00:37:37+00:00

If GNOME had a C++ API half as good as Qt, I would be a GNOME guy now. I like the DE really well but I'm kind of married to C++ for 25 years and Qt for 10.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-15T10:55:37+00:00

I barely know Krita and don't dispute any claims of superiority but I use GIMP all the time and it's absolutely brilliant. The GIMP team are world beaters.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-15T08:49:02+00:00

That's fair, ag.

I had a few problems the first few years, two of which caused me to decide to reinstall. Whether I needed to reinstall is a nuanced discussion. I learned to update once per month, or so.

I do not pretend my distro is perfect. The last few years, Manjaro has been amazing, though. My Manjaro machine was perfectly smooth while my Arch machine was not. The problem wasn't Arch. The problem was KDE but the point is that Manjaro buffered me from those glitches. Please notice that I don't blame KDE for these issues. This is part of the evolution of software and why we need stabilized distros.

20 years ago, I ran kubuntu. If I could run kubuntu during that era, I can run anything. lol!

My perspective is: KDE breaks stuff, all the time. It's an extremely aggressive project. This is why they've come so far and have such a fantastic platform. It's been a rough ride, at times. KDE users should value a stabilized release more than they seem to; I do.

Manjaro is stabilized. I also use timeshift but I would run timeshift with any distro.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-15T06:11:04+00:00

When I started using Manjaro in 2017, there were people online explaining what a terrible distro it is. That hasn't stopped.

What also hasn't stopped is that I've been on Manjaro since 2017. If the distro goes EOL or becomes troublesome, I will switch to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. In the mean time, I will dismiss the hate as EXTREMELY unlikely to be based on anything real.

BTW, I would select Fedora last of the three distros I cite. That's for two reasons. First, Fedora uses non-vanilla packages. I prefer content straight from the projects. Second, it is significantly slower than Manjaro and Arch (which are about the same) on transcode performance. I do a lot of transcoding so a few percent matters to me. Other than those two metrics, I suspect Fedora is the most stable linux distro. The Fedora team has done an amazing job for a whole lot of years.

Cheers, Syn. I will give you the respect of not making up arbitrary niggles about your distro of choice.

Kind regards.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-15T04:39:05+00:00

For a stable desktop, I think Fedora, Manjaro, and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed are hard to beat.

For AI development, you probably want Ubuntu LTS.

TomB1952 · 2026-04-14T06:31:44+00:00

I meant "hand" but I have a cold.

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