There might be some installation logs that show what you manually installed.

Move the content of your home folder to a new subfolder, pick the bits you need and delete the subfolder?

Regarding GNOME: I’m using it to on all my devices, low end to high end. I would suggest just trying it and see if you like it.

Didnt boot it in the last 12 months, maybe one day again for some games

OpenSUSE too

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Lol first blog post describes how the the blog is build https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-08-initial-setup.html

A classic

2. and 3. sound like sensible options. Though none of the options is inherently wrong. But the first one doesn’t sound easily reproduceable.

For 2: see the other comment https://feddit.org/post/25212909/11301373

For 3: i think you can also create a “host” terminal in vscode? (Maybe i’m remembering wrong). Then you can simply cd to your project and use git etc as usual

It sounds like verifying the integrity of servers to me and used by the administrator

apparently btrfs can get corrupted if it unexpectedly loses power?

What do you mean by that?

Corruption on power loss is something that journaling should prevent and modern filesystems do that. So btrfs should be as safe as other modern filesystems.

Edit: Btrfs does no journaling, it implements resilience with another mechanism, namely Copy on write.

You said you tried Apps from F-Droid, still FossWallet in F-Droid works good for me.

If you have autologin on boot enabled you could try disabling it and then login manually on boot

That helped for me

I wonder isn’t there a step missing where the flatpak extension org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.openjdk21 is added to the specific vscodium flatpak? Or does it add all installed sdk files automatically to the apps environment?

GNOME because it works out of the box like GNOME

Weird, but good that you found out!

Are you sure the right partitions have enough space? On my tumbleweed the installer made several subvolumes i think

Alternatively you can configure a hotkey in the GNOME Settings, or the equivalent for other DEs, to execute a bash script or anything.

No issues except that if you want to source files to set env vars you might have to use a plugin (foreignenv in my case)

I still write scripts in bash. But fish’s command completion is incredible. Idk, maybe other shells can be that good as well, but fish does out of the box.

Edit: Also some people used to bash wondered what that nice shell is on a server we administrate together. They had no problems using it coming from bash.

And sticking with POSIX is good if you want to stay portable, but my shell mustn’t be portable. It should be friendly and reduce mental load.

I’ve never used another init system, but i see no problem with systemd. The declaritive approach makes things very robust. Surely some things can be improved, but it’s a good tool.

Edit: Also managing user services the same way is nice.