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Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 17:00

ok, I'll stop trying to explain myself, thanks anyway for letting me know that I should just do whatever

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:56

it doesn't really encourage the use of linux when you approach the engineer to ask how to set up anything (and awesome opportunity to learn how to do it the right way) and the engineer is like "whatever, I don't care, do what you want"

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:50

pretty complex stuff to fill my free time with, free time I need to work on different things too

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:50

this whole linux thing is pretty confusing as help concerning the setup is always opinion based and therefore sometimes opposite things are recommended resulting in me not having any idea how to do anything at all. even a plain non dual bios installation is a mystery to me right now as debian just gives you 3 different iso images. Am I supposed to run one after another?

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:42

also the use case of debian and windows 10 here is completely different, I might need hundreds of gb for windows as I have games on it, I won't use debian for games however

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:41

that may be true, right now I think that I might be making a big fuss about nothing as I don't ever use it in the end, I atleast hope to use it a bit. however that makes it hard to spend much time experimenting

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:39

@sebasth the point is that I want to know how much space I'm supposed to reserve when I set up windows first. Therefore I'm completely fine with using the fedault partitioning, but I need to know where I should place each partition and how big it is

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:36

so system means root partition?

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:35

after setting up the system itself

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:34

And @FaheemMitha, regarding the question you pointed out in the comment: the first question basically is where the programs I install afterwards are stored, as I don't want them to block the ssd space. So I wanted to know if programs are stored in root or home

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:32

I'm sorry I don't get any of this. I'm trying to set up a debian system, not Arch, I'm new to this and have no idea what rootfs or grubs are. Why would my drive be encrypted in the first place? Should it be encrypted? Is there way to do this in a dual setup like I proposed? Wouldn't that be overdoing it regarding my little expirience?

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 16:23

@Videonauth @sebasth @FaheemMitha thanks, I appreciate the discussion about boot size and the included feedback. about the feedback: I know that it's a lot of questions combined, but they're somewhat really closely related, for example the first comment already answered like 4 questions. If I put all questions in differend "threads", it'd kinda be spam.
About boot size: so to conclude it's something between 300 mb and 2 gb depending on how much trash piles up? So I might just go with 2gb to be safe, right?

Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 15:34

hey any recommendations on setting up debian partitions or how to improve the question? superuser.com/questions/1271722/…

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Kartoffel

Nov 26, 2017 13:18

hey any recommendations on setting up debian partitions or how to improve the question? superuser.com/questions/1271722/…

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Kartoffel

Jul 9, 2017 23:04

Q: Get comfy in gaming chair

I got myself a chair like this. I never had an ergonomic chair before and spend alot of time infront of my computer desk. I chose this one as it supports people taller than 180cm in height too. However I can't get comfortable yet. I notice that I'm switching position depending on my activity lik...