restic -> Wasabi, automated with shell script and cron. Uses an include list to tell it what paths to back up.

Script has Pushover credentials to send me backup alerts. Parses restic log to tell me how much was backed up, removed, success/failure of backup, and current repo size.

To be added: a periodic restore of a random file to have its hash compared to the current version of the file (will happen right after backup, unlikely to have changed in my workload), which will be subsequently deleted, and alert sent letting me know how the restore test went.

Nice

They really are tho

Women are the most vulnerable in the world.

At least getting a snapshot of the Windows VM should be simple. And since it doesn’t connect to the internet and doesn’t update, restore should be quick and relatively easy.

Run

ujust update

Check out Bazzite until then.

That inconsistency is why I find Bazzite (and other immutables) so compelling. What works on my machine is very likely to work on yours.

My latest build is all AMD to help with compatibility/driver issues and I’m off to the races.

I can’t seem to play things like PUBG and others who’s anti-cheat doesn’t work (I guess) but oh well. I’m considering adding a drive for Windows to play the ones that just won’t work.

Nah let admins admin. It would piss me off to have chosen a product just to have Microsoft effectively veto my decision as the machine owner.

If companies are going to buy stuff that crashes, let em. Don’t ask Microsoft to hand hold.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the orb this morning.

But, my superiority!

Yeah I don’t want to just see content from people I agree with. Guess I’m crazy.

Ok I don’t actually know if you’re just joking or neurodivergent so as not to not pick up on the sarcasm.

OP can do whatever the fuck they want on their device. The worst thing that can happen if they don’t like the suggestion is to close the single extra tab they opened on their browser to read about it.

But thank Christ you were here to save him from that catastrophe.

I hate how OP is gonna have to do whatever we say :(

That really sucks. I super wish they could just go on using whatever they want :(

Buddy, I did read it. Allow me to quote in case the OP is too long for you:

I missing any key steps or tips to make the experience even better on a Surface? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Dude is distro hopping and wants general input. Please fuck off.

It was on topic and made perfect sense. What’s funny is that it was in response to you saying”AXSHHALLY you guys shouldn’t suggest immutable distros” because those don’t count as Windows alternatives for reasons?

If you’re gonna be a prick, at least be correct.

Ahh. You’re just a prick. I get it now.

Hm… immutable distros are alternatives tho?

And did you just downvote me for politely disagreeing?

I think I disagree.

After using Bazzite, if I had to set something up for my mom, it’d be Aurora.

Updates are dead simple and most of what she would use would be flatpaks anyway.

They seem like a rock solid way to get into Linux with a low chance of breaking something.

I really wanted to like it. I’ve used ansible and puppet for work and there, declarative configuration made sense because I need to duplicate the same thing 1000’s of times.

For desktop, it was incredibly annoying to me to have to change my config file every time I wanted to install a new application. I still found myself messing with drivers which I hate on any OS.

My distro choices after Nix were meant to reduce the need to mess with drivers. Zorin and Mint have first-run installers for whatever card it detects (Nvidia for me at the time) which worked well enough.

By that point I had read about immutable distros but wasn’t sure about them just yet. Since I was on a hopping spree I decided I’d try it out.

When the Bazzite install went well and 99% of the applications I wanted to install were flatpaks anyway, it was a perfect fit. I’ve been running docker containers on my Ubuntu server for years so BoxBuddy was a natural fit for things that aren’t flatpaks (minecraft runs great in one). What’s more, KDE has a lot of keyboard combinations the same as Windows by default which made the switch even better for me. One that I had been fighting to add to gnome, which is admittedly small but annoying, the ability to use Meta+period to bring up an emoji selector, was built right into KDE by default?! I couldn’t believe it.

Then, I started looking for an equivalent to FancyZones found in Windows PowerToys and… What do you know, that’s also built into KDE by default?

Then a friend of mine gave me an AMD graphics card he was getting rid of which was an upgrade to my GTX 1060 I’ve been using since 2018. Since I had already moved to Bazzite, it was a simple re-base to move to the AMD version and it went off without a hitch.

It’s all over, Bazzite and KDE are home for me now.