Well when I was testing out distros last year, I wanted updated KDE, Wayland, BTRFS, Snapper, full LUKS (including the boot partition) and I wanted it all somewhat complete and configured with a GUI installer. I had spent way too much time mucking around in the CLI with Fedora trying to get all of that and I was over it. Garuda just delivered. I didn't know much about Arch at that time but man, it just works so well. All the issues I had with Debian and Mint and Ubuntu and Fedora, they just aren't a problem with Arch. And Garuda has it all configured out of the box. I'm sure there's some bloat in it - stuff that's included that I don't need. But I'm just happy everything I want is in there and I don't need to figure it out
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May be an unpopular opinion but I'm loving Garuda. I'm not a wizard and I needed something to just work with all the goodies. Garuda does it for me.
Yup. My pixel arrived 2 weeks ago. Just loaded Graphene last week. Haven't even put the sim card in it yet. FFS
I had ghost touches on my old Motorola. I never could figure out any pattern or cause for the problem. But a restart seemed to resolve it
I think it's also pushing subscription based cloud services. To me, the SD card slot is a convenient backup target when away from home. It fits my 3-2-1 backup strategy. Without it, more people will consider backing up to paid cloud services, like how Apple does it.
For the record, I hate this trend. Hands off my sd slot and my 3.5mm jack. But I also want GrapheneOS or something similar. Can't have it all...
Bump for an update. What did you ultimately do?
I'm looking for a similar solution
Brilliant and feasible!
I remember reading a lot this past year about Mozilla fretting about their market share and trying to figure out how to grow their user base. Did I hallucinate that? Cuz their actions lately appear to be driving users away. Are they taking notes from Google or is there some other MBA making these brilliant changes?
I had bad experiences with Seagate between 2002 and 2009. Multiple, sudden, premature drive failures under ideal operating conditions. I haven't bought a Seagate drive in over 10 years.
WD enterprise grade hardware is still good for me, as of 2 years ago. Their customer service sucks but the hardware is still good
In general I tend to go for Toshiba or Hitachi (rebranded to a different name if I recall...) if I have a preference. I have some really old drives like 15+ years old still chugging along.
Give me an open source solution that can import notebooks from OneNote and I'm sold!
If the OP has a Timeshift backup, is it also possible to restore one of those backups to the new 1 TB drive?
I feel that. Windows gives me the creeps since 8.1. Recently I setup a new Win11 machine and it took all day to get everything configured including figuring out how to turn off all the telemetry and spyware. I'll use it for work but I don't even like it on my network.
Arch from scratch sounds like an adventure. But there are many good arch spins like Garuda that make it easy, no drama.