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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Which file system do you recommend for Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a simple question : Which file system do you recommend for Linux? Ext4...?

EDIT : Thanks to everyone who commented, I think I will try btrfs on my root partition and keep ext4 for my home directory 😃

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I suppose by being more efficient, "using modern technology" (everything saving Google, Meta, Amazon etc. money and is thus extremely well funded, all server related stuff), is good for the environment.

If something runs faster on the same hardware, it may use less energy. It may also just be restricted in hardware usage, like not using multithreading.

Linux Distros shipping x86_64-v2 packages is a whole other problem...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have an x86_64-v2 CPU so I highly disagree with your statements.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like, all of them... or would you be a bit more specific?

Old CPUs are an okay use case, but targeting will literally remove all benefits in efficiency that were made in the last 14 or so years.

My Thinkpad T430 has v3, and it is a 3rd gen intel. People honestly running hardware older than that are rare.

For sure the hardware should be supported, but it is not the target audience and pulls the others down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So what solution do you recommend? Only making v3 packages and leaving older hardware support for AUR geeks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

No, and this is for sure an issue. Having different repos would increase fragmentation a lot.