XFCE

Installation In my last post about my ThinkPad T40s I mentioned that I added a 256GB mSATA drive and installed Debian 13 + XFCE. Guided Partitioning doesn’t work when you install to 2 drives, it will just pick the first drive and create the necessary partitions. Manual partitioning is necessary. I previously mentioned I set up the drives as follows: Device Partition Mount Point Size Drive /dev/sdb1 /boot/EFI 1024 MB mSATA /dev/sdb2 / 226 GB mSATA /dev/sda1 /home 466 GB 2.5" SSD One of the cool things about having a large /home partition is that the root / partition can be backed up to /home using timeshift. Because I’m planning on adding and removing lots of software timeshift backups will become critically important. If I mess up the system adding/removing packages, running sudo timeshift will let me go back to the last backup. It’s worth noting that timeshift isn’t a /home backup, it’s an OS backup. Other software exists for simple data backups (thinking deja dup). ...

My Linux Mint XFCE 22.1 desktop At home Xubuntu 24.04 is the main Linux distribution I use. And while I have a Xubuntu 24.04 workstation at work, the main Linux desktop I’ve been using lately runs Linux Mint XFCE version 22.1. With the Computer Recycling Project’s switch to Linux Mint XFCE late last year I set up a workstation so I could fully experience all the handy features, and issues people might run into using Linux Mint XFCE on the desktop. ...