What a cool thing you guys have going here!
I am on my second day of using this operating system and while I still feel kind of like I’m a toddler walking around with a loaded gun, in that I am as ignorant as I am dangerous (to myself at least), I’m starting to look into some of the neat things you can do and I’m quite impressed!
I just wanted to make a positive post of appreciation as a newcomer to the OS!
Welcome to the club! Make sure to set up automatic Timeshift snapshots, just in case you break something badly, you’ll be glad you have a recent daily or weekly backup instead of a manual one from months ago.
Also, a friendly reminder, Timeshift is not a backup of your data. It snapshots your systems settings, especially critical functions which allows you to restore functionality, but you still should have your actual user data backed up somewhere else.
Another tip: familiarize yourself with Timeshift in the terminal. The GUI works great, but if you break your system badly enough, your desktop environment won’t load. (Don’t ask me how I know.) In that case, Timeshift is awesome because it will still run fine if you only can access it from the terminal. The commands are easy, and you don’t have to memorize. Just type timeshift --help and it will list out all the commands you’ll need to know.
Today I learned it’s accessible via the terminal.
My personal advice about fear get a second computer/virtual machine install Linux Mint on it, and there run any scripts you want and any commands you want. You will learn much faster this way without fearing you’ll break your main computer.
You are breathtaking! Just giving some positive energy back.
Just make sure your data is backed up. If it comes to the worst, a reinstall just takes a few minutes.
Fixing can be more fun, constructive, and even fast. That’s also worth a try.
But absolutely have backups, test those backups(!) and be ready to burn down any system when the time comes.
As long as your important data is safe, go mess things up. Break things, read the docs, reinstall if necessary. This is how we all learn.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to reinstall because I attempted a fix that made things worse. It’s not the end of the world… In fact each time you do you’ll be better at it.
When your data is safe (backed up or stored on a NAS) the reinstall stakes are a lot lower so there’s not as much pressure to keep things perfect. Figure out how to automate your computer’s config (I use ansibe) and it’s even lower. When that is setup you could reinstall and be ready to go in under an hour.
Yes, I made a time shift backup the moment installation completed and could boot consistently. I have yet to move a whole bunch of data over yet either as I am still feeling things out.
From what I can see it’s difficult to break things completely past the point of nor return (say, by disabling some failsafe and causing hardware damage or doing the equivalent of throwing the kernel into a wood chipper) so I am starting to poke about a little more.
Presently I am wrestling with my wifi driver but I want to see if I can figure it out on my own first. Evidently the MSI B650 Gaming plus Wi-Fi motherboard runs a notoriously fidgety MT7922 (?) chipset.
Always a new challenge!
I don’t think mediatek provide any firmware for this wifi chip ,so better switch it to Intel WiFi adapter
Man, at first I was really bummed because I thought this meant I would have to replace the entire motherboard, but I looked a little deeper and you can just swap out the Wi-Fi card! Miraculous!
Obviously my budget is absolutely wrecked from buying the parts for the computer, but I will probably get the new card in a paycheck or two!
Based on what I have seen the Intel AX6E (or maybe NGW?) would be the target replacement, no?
Yes ax6e will work fine :)
Thank you!
Nice!
I’ve been using Linux as my main machine for a few months, but I’ve also worked as a software nerd for years so I was familiar with a lot of concepts.
Most of my daily usage is just the browser and steam, but there’s a lot of options!
