• marcos@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    Are those ex-Windows users slowing you down in any way?

    And anyway, if you are talking about desktops, I’ve been using only / and /home for about 20 years since I noticed that /boot and /var didn’t bring me any value for a really long time. I’m currently wondering if I shouldn’t ditch /home.

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        11·
        10 months ago

        Wow, I can’t believe I’m reading that first point from a 2018 comment. I’d mock it if it was in 2006.

        You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

        The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

        The third one is a complete non-problem.

        • scratchandgame@lemmy.mlTiếng Việt
          2·
          10 months ago

          You should have backups. Not hedge against 1 in 10 million error conditions.

          if a partition isn’t actively written to, it’s less likely to suffer damage

          The second one is a huge bother in desktops. I never not regretted trying it.

          ok

          The third one is a complete non-problem.

          This is only a problem with OpenBSD. They never encourage using a huge single root partition, and never test it.

          It have an asterisk, not a -