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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 05:51:28 UTC Bernie

   Setting up an alternate root partition to test the upcoming #Fedora 37 beta while keeping a stable Fedora 36 system around just in case....
   https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-37-Beta-Next-Week

   No, I do not need a slow and buggy filesystem with O(1) snapshots, thank you. #xfs > #btrfs

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 06:07:01 UTC Bernie

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     Ok, let's do it!

     #Fedora #Linux 37 beta 🤞

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 06:15:46 UTC Bernie

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     Hmm... Actually, before proceeding perhaps I should first investigate some these BROKEN DEPENDENCIES 😰

     python3-dnf is particularly concerning, and it would be hard to install any more updates without the updater 😅

     #fedora 37 feeling more beta than expected...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 06:20:33 UTC Bernie

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     Ok, I got much better results with --enablerepo=updates-testing.

     I guess it's because I already had newer versions of some of those packages installed in F37, and dnf hates downgrading things when it's supposed to be upgrading.

     #Fedora 37 coming soon

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 06:36:58 UTC Bernie

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     It's ironic that Fedora 37 Beta on track... with the main package of #GNOME 3 having broken deps!

     UPDATE: turns out that was caused by the gnome-screensaver package, which hasn't been updated nor rebuilt since Fedora 32.

     Was the screensaver deprecated due to some #Wayland idiosyncrasy? Is the screensaver hard-coded into gnome-shell now?

     I don't care, I use #KDE :kde:

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 06:41:40 UTC Bernie

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     All right, dnf --best --allowerasing fixes all the issues!

     Downloading 3.1GB of #Fedora 37 goodness :fedora:

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 07:43:23 UTC Bernie

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     All rpms finished downloading and my chroot is getting upgraded to the #Fedora 37 branch (while I'm comfortably continuing to use the current release).

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 07:47:22 UTC Bernie

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     I wouldn't be so comfortable right now if #systemd hadn't handled chroots correctly:

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 08:09:37 UTC Bernie

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     And after a quick reboot, ladies and gentlemen... 🥁

     #Fedora #Linux 37 #KDE #Plasma Prerelease

     ta-da! 🎉

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 08:10:24 UTC Bernie

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     So far, looks and feels exactly the same as Fedora 36 (a good sign).

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 17:40:13 UTC Bernie

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     • Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈

     @naufraghi My last and final misfortune with #btrfs was 4 years ago, on #ArchLinux:
     https://mstdn.io/@codewiz/100195861259922125

     I'm sure btrfs has matured since then (especially since it's been the default filesystem for #Fedora for over 1 year now), but I'm still holding a grudge on it 💢

   • Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈 (naufraghi@mastodon.uno)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 17:40:14 UTC Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈

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     @codewiz `>` in the sense of direction or comparison? I'm using #btrfs since ages now, and I migrated from Ubuntu to Arch and than back to Debian switching the root partition. I love the snapshots but I hate btrfs false full disk and rebalance. Should I evaluate again #xfs?

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 17:41:49 UTC Bernie

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     • Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈

     #XFS has been a flawless experience my laptop, my desktop and a few servers.

     It also performs better than other Linux filesystems on fast NVMe:
     https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-58-filesystems
     @naufraghi

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-2022 17:47:58 UTC Bernie

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     • Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈

     Crucially, #xfs supports reflinks, which are simpler than snapshots and almost as powerful.
     @naufraghi