Self-introduction: TheEvilSkeleton

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Hello everyone!

My alias is TheEvilSkeleton, but you can also call me Tesk, 
TheEvilSkely, Skelly, Proprietary Chrome-chan or anything close to it.


I'm really excited to be part of QA! I first tried GNU/Linux 3 years 
ago, from Ubuntu to Manjaro, Arch, Gentoo, Pop!_OS, etc. and finally 
Fedora Silverblue, and I started using it as my daily OS since then.


Personally, I don't think I have much experience with Linux, since I 
have been using it for around three years. I do think that I have more 
knowledge in such topic than an average Linux user, but not as much as 
say, a system administrator. I try my best to learn as much as I can so 
I can contribute back what I've learned. I mostly contribute to 
documentation, since it's one of the places where free and open source 
software (FOSS) falls behind, but also because it's where I am very 
good at. I also experiment; I play around a lot with distributions, 
containers, VMs and more, hence me trying out many Linux distributions 
in the past. I often break stuff because, well, I play around things a 
lot and I'm very experimental.


I also have some knowledge with Flatpak. I maintain 6 Flatpak packages 
currently. I am currently writing an introduction to Flatpak for those 
that have little knowledge in Flatpak and want to learn its technical 
side. I've been working for around a month, and I've spent plenty of 
days for research, so I hope I'm going to give a very accurate and 
user-friendly introduction to beginners. With that knowledge, I'm going 
to take advantage of it to contribute to Flatpak's documentation.


On a more personal note, I'm a 19 year old "student". I'm quoting 
"student", since I stopped attending to classes because I couldn't 
concentrate anymore due to stress and heavy pressure from college 
because of COVID. Instead of doing nothing during the time, I decided 
to join QA to contribute more to FOSS and collaborating with people 
around the world, and be part of the Year of the Linux Desktop™. I'm 
a male, but you are free to use the pronoun you desire.


Thank you so much for accepting me in the project! I'm really excited 
for this. Fedora is very open for contributions and is transparent, 
which is the type of project I love.


If you want to contact me:
My nick is TheEvilSkeleton at irc.freenode.chat ;My Matrix user is 
theevilskeleton:matrix.org .

Have a nice day everyone, and thank you again for accepting me!

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Re: Self-introduction: TheEvilSkeleton

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Hi,


Leaving aside the question of using a real name...
It is much easier to take people seriously if they have a more 
sensible,

even if boring, name.  The names you suggested might be fine in your
existing situation, but imply (probably incorrectly) a lack of 
maturity,
and some people would also find them offensive (though I'm sure that 
is

not your intention).


Sorry for those that find my username offensive, and sorry that the 
names are a bit immature; no one pointed it out to me me before so I 
didn't notice, so I appreciate the feedback. May I ask which name 
specifically is the one that would be considered as offensive?


As for my real name, I prefer not to share it online currently. I don't 
feel "strong" enough to do so. However, I am planning to upload my CV 
on my website someday, and until then, I will use my real name. I hope 
it's okay, but if it's required to provide the name, then I will do so.


Hi and welcome! You may also want to take a look at the Fedora Docs 
team,

and perhaps Fedora Magazine.

Will do. Thank you.


This is so true.  I think for programmers, it isn't as much fun to
write documentation.  And there are always more bugs to fix, and code 
to

write, than programmer hours, so it is human nature to let the
documentation slide. And, open source changes so rapidly that
documentation goes out of date quickly.
May your successes be legion.  :-)

Agreed, and thank you.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 08:13, Gavin Flower 
 wrote:

On 29/03/2021 02:24, Michael Schwendt wrote:

On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 12:15:13 -0400, TheEvilSkeleton wrote:


My alias is TheEvilSkeleton, but you can also call me Tesk,
TheEvilSkely, Skelly, Proprietary Chrome-chan or anything close to 
it.

May I ask for your real name?

Where does this come from that people introduce themselves with
pseudonyms, aliases, usernames but no real name?
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Hi,

Leaving aside the question of using a real name...

It is much easier to take people seriously if they have a more 
sensible,

even if boring, name.  The names you suggested might be fine in your
existing situation, but imply (probably incorrectly) a lack of 
maturity,
and some people would also find them offensive (though I'm sure that 
is

not your intention).


Cheers,
Gavin
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Fedora Silverblue 34: GNOME 40 usable but laggy in some occurences

[TheEvilSkeleton]

GNOME for the most part has been stable for me, but in terms of performance, I 
can feel the degradation. When many windows are in the overview or have many 
icons in the app menu, the frames drop.

This happens on both my laptop and desktop, both are using Ryzen CPUs and have 
decent graphics.

I'm not sure if this should be reported to GNOME or in Fedora, so I just wanted 
to point it out here first.
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Re: /boot on btrfs

[TheEvilSkeleton]

A couple of days ago I tried to manually install Fedora 34 Silverblue on UEFI 
system and it kept failing when I was using /boot on btrfs. When I switched to 
ext4, it installed flawlessly. I will try it soon on the ISO you linked and 
will report back if this issue persists or not.

On April 1, 2021 7:44:06 PM EDT, FUNG Chi Chuen Sampson  
wrote:
>Anaconda do not complain about /boot partition using btrfs, as tested with 
>https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/Fedora-34-20210401.n.0/compose/Everything/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-34-20210401.n.0.iso
>
>Testing steps:
>
>1.  Boot the USB
>2.  Choose Custom Storager
>3.  Remove All existing partitions
>4.  By using the default btrfs scheme, choose to create the default layout
>5.  Edit /boot, change type to btrfs
>6.  Result:
>- /dev/sda1 - 1GB, btrfs
>- /dev/sda2 - 180GB, btrfs
>* subvol /
>* subvol /home
>(It is on a legacy BIOS system, so no EFI partition created.)
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Re: /boot on btrfs

[TheEvilSkeleton]

I tried using /boot on btrfs a couple of times some days ago, and it kept 
failing each time until I used ext4.

This is bad UX. If I need to "fiddle with enough" on a problem that wasn't 
supposed to be a problem, it should be addressed.

By default, when using the automatic install process, /boot uses ext4 when it 
should be using btrfs instead, and when using the custom partitioning tool, it 
should allow me to use btrfs without it being a reason to failure.

On April 2, 2021 1:32:05 AM EDT, Chris Murphy  wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 10:18 AM Proprietary Chrome-chan
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> `/boot` can be used on btrfs. However, Anaconda forces me to use ext4 in 
>> that specific, when it shouldn't if you use btrfs.
>>
>> I'd like to request allowing `/boot` to be used on btrfs.
>
>You can do this in Custom partitioning, if you fiddle with it enough.
>However... I recommend you create a 1-2G Btrfs boot outside of the
>installer. The installer will let you assign it to the /boot mount
>point without reformatting it.
>
>The reason is it's better to use the 'mkfs.btrfs --mixed' option for
>file systems of this size.
>
>-- 
>Chris Murphy
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[Suggestion] Add `noatime` mount option

[TheEvilSkeleton]

I'd like to suggest to use *noatime* mount option for btrfs.

I've come across two posts about combining atime with btrfs. 
Unfortunately those two should not be combined, as explained here: 
; and here: Why I experience poor 
performance during file access on filesystem? 



TL;DR: btrfs and atime should not be combined because it causes more 
problems than it fixes due to the nature of CoW. CoW already does what 
atime should do, so we are essentially losing a lot more performance 
than we should, just because we have atime. Another thing, reading 
files after a snapshot can cause files to grow considerably.


I would suggest to use *noatime* mount option by default for increased 
performance and to prevent high space consumption.


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