I started out by having only Windows, and what I did was simply shrink the windows partitions and add some ext4 at the end for Arch.

Now I want to get rid of all Windows and go Linux-only, and was wondering what would be the best setup for my use-case, which is mostly gaming, some programming.

I have these disks:

  • one very fast m.2 1TB SSD that I want my current most-played games on
  • one slower SATA 1TB SSD that I would be fine with games I play less or whose loading times I don’t care that much about
  • one newer 4TB HDD for all my music, photos, documents, torrents and shit
  • one old 1TB HDD for idk whatever

The root volume is on the m.2 SSD and is LUKS encrypted. Would love for everything to be encrypted.

The rest are all just separate mount points, and I either manually or use Steam’s storage features to move games around.

Since I’m still mostly a Linux noob, I was just wondering what more experienced Lemmy people would think to be best.

I was thinking about some LVM setup (though I haven’t looked at yet how that works) that via lvmcache automatically uses the faster drives for the most used data, but I’m not sure how well that works compared to just moving the games I care about to the fast SSD, because as far as I see it works by caching the most-used stuff, but I want a new game I install to be immediately fast, not some time later after it was determined that it’s “most-used”.

  • hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    That’s part of the beauty of Linux; power of option. Don’t like the way something is done; do it another way. Don’t like the tool, find a new tool.

    While I think NixOS is quite cool, absolutely no hate here, I find it isn’t the right tool for me.

    For my NAS, I only have it mounted to devices that are on network. For my laptop, I have other ways of accessing it. Mainly from my laptop, I have no need for the NAS as the NAS is primarily used by other services hosted on network, and from there I can access the web front end for much of it. So with a simple VPN connection I can access everything.

      • hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        19 hours ago

        That all sounds pretty cooll! Some of that is outside the scope of what I would need; but would still say quite a cool setup.

        For anything custom on my setup I have repos on my git server that is easily pulled down when I decide to nuke my systems and start fresh. Which doesn’t happen for years at a time.

        And even then on my main rig, I have all of my data separated to other disks. And backed up to my NAS if I deem it critical.