The fstab file is used to define how disk partitions or remote file systems are mounted into your computer. Removable drives such as USB drives or SD cards are not shown there, because if they were, your system would complain at boot that it can’t find the requested USB drive.

About F2FS having double the storage space of btrfs. In all honesty, it doesn’t make sense to me. Do you mean it shows you potentially being able to store 80 megabytes if you can get compression working or does it just show 80 megabytes instead of 40, after formatting the file system?

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Then replace “defaults” with “compress=zstd” on your desired partitions.

IMO stick with btrfs. Also, the storage space between file systems is exactly the same, given the same hardware.

Ubuntu has a history together with amazon, sending search queries in the application starter for example. There are better distros out there, like Mint.

Btop, beautiful and functional.

With use case IMO, you’ll lose absolutely nothing. Literally any game ever now runs on Proton and Wine.

That use-case IMO, you’ll loose absolutely nothing. Literally any game ever runs on Proton by now, unless the developer deliberately disables that, see Bungie and “anti-cheat” rootkits.

Yeah, but in Joplin you can hit export and then it exports your note hierarchy as folders and markdown files.

Writing your mlt script in nano. Doesn’t get lighter than this. ;)

Yeah, I’ve tried photogimp, but it just changes the layout to be more comfortable for Photoshop users, which I’m not. GMIC is a collection of different VFX.

Two of my favourite ones are median and montage. One I use for mood boards, the other one is to get rid of either noise or people in images.

GIMP, but you definitely should install also the GMIC and resynthesiser plugins. With GMIC especially, you’re getting so many things that not even Photoshop can do, making GIMP objectively superior.

Edit: If you mean you’re looking for a raw editor, meaning you change the colors and how the image themselves look, then you need Darktable. This is a raw editor. GIMP is mainly for VFX.

Can’t wait to install GNU/Linux on a new 5000 € laptop, which has the hardware of a 500 € laptop. 🥰

Yes.

That means people need to have another excuse for not using GNU/Linux even though they complain 24/7/365 about Windows.

Same here, I installed Debian on the laptop of my nan and I got zero support requests ever since from her. Debian is so good ans stable!

Please understand me correctly: Machine learning does have its use as an image editing. but not in raw development. Sure, VFX are fine, but the goal of raw development is to make the files that the camera has put out look as good as possible. And for that, machine learning is inadequate, because again, hallucinations and other defects. Once you have processed your image with the raw development software, sure. Machine learning, denoising, expansion and other VFX will certainly work. But my recommendation is to keep it out of raw development, not for purist reasons, but because there’s genuinely no reason to use it, as we need to get precise results from raw first, and then we can add our VFX on top of that.

About the raw pipeline of Darktable, this is one of its greatest features. You can freely reconfigure it to suit your needs. By default, it uses a scene-referred workflow and you should really stick with that. But if you’re an advanced user, you can freely shuffle the modules around as you like, just like you can do in DaVinci Resolve.

Edit: For beginners, really stick with the modules that you’ll find in the different headers. Also, manipulate your modules starting from bottom to top, as this is the processing order for the modules.

Yes, it does not have ML denoise, but there are very good reasons why you don’t want to have that in your raw pipeline. Sure, after raw development is fine, but denoise in a raw pipeline needs to maximise the signal-to-noise ratio. Machine learning denoising would introduce hallucinations, which are not real signal, and that’s why it’s best kept out of raw files.

Well, yes, some specific camera support features are missing, such as Fujifilm look-up tables, it still is the best raw editor I have used in my entire life and I can highly recommend it.

I think using a VM is a good choice. You get all the compatibility benefits while isolating it from your hardware.

There is one special program for some special hardware that I need for work, and I just run said program in a Windows VM. Even better, I can run the program without internet. So it’s completely safe!

Grayjay, available from F-droid and on desktop.

If you hate FUTO, you don’t have to give them money.

I’m the Pop_OS hype guy, so that’s what I’ll recommend. Other great options are ZorinOs and Mint, if you dislike using a new interface.