Been playing with Solus Linux recently. I like that things like installing Blender also pulls in AMD rocm clr and friends and gets Cycles support working without any real futzing around.

The Solus installer doesn't give a lot of filesystem options, err, perhaps more fairly, options that I like. No zfs and simple btrfs. I converted the root disk into a btrfs raid1 mirror after the fact but it would be cool if that was possible in the installer. Maybe I missed it. I can live with btrfs, I guess. Ha.

Running the Plasma spin (for now?). Will take a hard look at Qt based Budgie 11 when it comes out.

Very nice, polished distro. Thinking about putting it on my main box since I've got btrfs retroactive mirroring figured out. First time using (i.e. trusting) btrfs so maybe I should let some more water go under Solus' keel before going 'all in'.

Too bad Alpine doesn't have the same level of rocm support. I get it. It is what it is.

#Linux #Solus #btrfs #RAID #KDEPlasma #Budgie #Budgie11 #AMD #ROCM

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Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-11-beta-arrives-to-bring-enhanced-gaming-compatibility-to-linux-steamos/

Gaming on Linux with an older GPU levels up with DXVK-Sarek v1.12 bringing major new features:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/gaming-on-linux-with-an-older-gpu-levels-up-with-dxvk-sarek-v1-12-bringing-major-new-features/

D7VK version 1.7 brings even more retro Direct3D gaming to Linux:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/d7vk-version-1-7-brings-even-more-retro-direct3d-gaming-to-linux/

Wine 11.7 Brings VBScript Fixes, DirectSound 7.1 Channel Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.7-Released

Linux kernel 7.0 is out now:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-kernel-7-0-is-out-now/

GNU Linux-Libre 7.0 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers:
https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-7-0-kernel-is-now-available-for-software-freedom-lovers

XOrg Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 Released with Multiple Security Fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/xorg-server-21-1-22-and-xwayland-24-1-10-released-with-multiple-security-fixes

Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-RadeonSI-Rusticl-APUs

exFAT For Linux 7.1 Helps Reduce File Fragmentation, Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-exFAT

Btrfs Brings Performance Improvements, Shutdown ioctl Stable With Linux 7.1:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Linux-7.1

FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FTRFS-Linux-File-System

Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Rust

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#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Proton #DXVK #D7VK #Wine #LinuxKernel #LinuxLibre #XOrg #XWayland #Mesa #exFAT #Btrfs #FTRFS #Rust #FosseryTech

Bon, j'ai passé un peu de temps à chipoter aujourd'hui.

Finalement, j'ai une VM avec #Debian13, Gnome et #btrfs ! Je pense avoir une vue plus claire de toute la partie partitionnement, ça fait longtemps que je ne m'étais plus plongé dans tout ça.

J'ai suivi ce tutoriel : https://medium.com/@inatagan/installing-debian-with-btrfs-snapper-backups-and-grub-btrfs-27212644175f

C'est quand même assez loin d'une installation classique. Il faut passer en mode expert, passer par le terminal pour créer les subvolumes, ... Pas évident!

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Capture d'écran d'une installation de Debian 13 dans une VM qui montre que btrfs est installé.

Cette semaine, je reçois normalement un nouvel ordinateur (« nouveau » pour moi mais c’est un Lenovo P53 reconditionné).

Du coup, je farfouille dans les distributions Linux, les gestionnaires de bureau et les gestionnaires de fenêtres.

Je suis un grand fan de #Debian depuis longtemps mais j’ai lu tellement bien de #btrfs que j’irais bien vers une distribution qui le supporte.. #fedora? J’hésitais à partir vers une fedora atomic #sway, quitte à changer.. Puis j’ai vu #hyprland et #niri 🤩. Help.

@green ok, no, I was just asking to suggest to update the original toot. Let me boost that thing.

Maybe also add #btrfs and #linux.

Je viens de réaliser que #timeshift, sur mon pc sous #linux, en #btrfs, ne backup pas /boot qui est sur une partition à part que / en btrfs.

C’est grave ? J’imagine que ça peut poser des problèmes si je restaure sur une version qui utilisais un noyau différent ?

C’est mon partitionnement qui est mauvais ? 🤔

Noch schnell einen Scrub durchführen. Dank KI traue ich mich heute an Themen, die früher viel zu kompliziert für mich als Laien waren.

#btrfs #raid #linux

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Statusmeldung eines fehlerfreien BTRFS-RAID1-Systems „Daten2025“ mit Details zu Laufwerken und Speicherbelegung. Von 3,64 TiB verfügbarem RAID-Speicher sind aktuell 2,73 TiB belegt.

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Statusmeldung eines fehlerfreien BTRFS-Scrubs vom 4. Januar 2026 über 5,46 TiB Daten in 26 Stunden. Ein Text fragt den Nutzer, ob ein neuer Scrub-Vorgang gestartet werden soll.

Mal ne Frage an die #Linux - Bubble hier:

Wie sichert ihr eure #Btrfs Partition zusätzlich auf ne externe Platte?

Today my work machine graduated from Windows 11 to Ubuntu 24.04. The hardware hasn’t changed. I would have preferred Kubuntu. They gave me ext4 instead of btrfs. But my wishes there are nice-to-haves. What they gave me is a huge step!

#Linux #Windows #Ubuntu #Ext4 #Btrfs #Upgrade

I will see if i can set a snapshotable filesystem too, i know friends are doing this with #zfs, #btrfs should achieve smae purpose.

And yes it should work else it could not be called snapshot. What bother me is memory footprint of such solution i doubt it is free lunch ...

for #selfhosting, it will be enough,i'm confident that my service can endure a powercut, so snapshot will be fine.

i haven't figured out how i will manage off-site backup, maybe export a tar from borg ? or rsync the repo even if it's not advised.