Thank you

I will check it out again if and when I need to do a clean out.

I do create a lot of duplicates as I move and transfer files between 3 laptops.

Hey Dessalines

I never got on with rmlint. It never felt safe to me.

I found fclones to be much better and safer.

Plus there is a GUI version for those not using the terminal

Gui Version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones-gui

CLI version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

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Usage

fclones offers separate commands for finding and removing files. This way, you can inspect the list of found files before applying any modifications to the file system.

group – identifies groups of identical files and prints them to the standard output

remove – removes redundant files earlier identified by group

link – replaces redundant files with links (default: hard links)

dedupe – does not remove any files, but deduplicates file data by using native copy-on-write capabilities of the file system (reflink)

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I did actually test this by creating a directory with duplicates.

test_dupes 186 files

scanned directory for duplicates and created dupes.txt

fclones group . >>dupes.txt

dupes.txt

remove duplicates to another directory

/home/user/Desktop/dupes

fclones move target_dir <dupes.txt

fclones move /home/user/Desktop/dupes <dupes.txt

test_dupes now has 173 files

I completely forgot about endeavourOS.

I used to have it on my gaming rig. Pretty desktop.

just remembered arco-linux too, but I think thats been discontinued.

Ho sfanculato Mozilla e Firefox 4 anni fa. Prima muoiono entrambi, meglio è.

transalation for you inglish:

I ditched Mozilla and Firefox four years ago. The sooner they both die, the better.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-adding-copilot-chatbot-features

Try Librewolf, doesnt have ai

As you are a noob, avoid arch.

It maybe great for your self esteem telling people you are an arch user, but vanilla arch is not a simple distro. it takes a lot of work.

So, unless you have a lot of linux and terminal experience try something else.

If you want to play with an arch based distro there is manjaro.

I have manjaro installed on my old Lenovo T450 for years and it works great.

Alternatively give linux mint XFCE a try. I usually install this for people who are new users of linux.

or I have MX-linux installed on the Mrs laptop. she has the lenovo T470.

install guides:

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

https://itsfoss.com/install-manjaro-linux/

https://www.debugpoint.com/install-mx-linux/

if you want to try vanilla arch

https://itsfoss.com/install-arch-linux/

for me

locate --version

returns:

plocate 1.1.23

sudo apt-get install plocate

not locate

Hey Droechai

How about trying Sparklinux

They have stable, oldstable and oldoldstable images.

based on debian.

I use sparky on both my raspberry pi 3B’s.

Sparky 7 still supports i686 architecture (32 bit).

ISO MinimalGUI i686 (32 bit)

https://sparkylinux.org/iso-minimalgui-i686/

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sparky

Im an old therapist and I always recommend the power of silence.

I’m not nice to my co-workers. I am courteous, professional and set boundaries.

If someone asks me a private question about my life, family, children or anything I consider personal. I just remain silent.

Silence is simple. It take no brain power, whereas trying to think of ways to deflect questions will be stressful.

It is not written in stone that I have to answer questions. Silence is a powerful tool.

I never get into justifying to anyone why I do not want to share my personal stuff. Its personal for a reason.

The question: How do I live the rest of my life?

You must ask yourself, how did I manage to get to where I am today.

Reading your post, you say you have not been diagnosed.

The spectrum today, in comparson to 20 years ago has expanded exponentially from the original.

Personally, I think an introvert could get a diagnosis.

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You are a human being, you are not a Label or a position on a spectrum.

There is no perfect human being, we are all different, not one of us is a diagnoses. That is why we are given names at birth.

I dont know anyone called, adhd, autistic, psychotic or depressed.

Diagnoses are what the medical profession likes to use to label us and put us in little boxes.

The rest of the world see each one of us as some random human walking down the street.

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During my psychotherapy undergraduate years at University, my peers and I did an experiment.

The experiment was to challenge the status quo, and assess how easy it was to get a diagnoses and get a prescription.

So being your typical, annoying under grads, a few of us. including me, went to our respective doctors and complained about; feeling down, unable to sleep, not eating very well, and extremely stressed because of the work load at university.

My GP referred me to see a psychiatrist at my local hospital. I was diagnosed with clinical depression and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) with a likelihood of a personality disorder.

He prescribed me the anti-depressant Mirtazapine and pregabalin for the anxiety.

Obviously, I was healthy 30 year old and didn’t go the the chemist to get my prescription. I also told my doctor so he could remove any referrences to mental ill health added to my medical history.

We knew it was a stupid thing to do, but it did give us lots to think about, regarding the state of attaining a medical diagnoses, being prescribed unnecessary drugs and being given labels.

By the way, psychotherapists dont label people.

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Thank you cravl

Much appreciated

He probbaly didn’t realise the committment involved.

Sitting in someones front garden, on the edge of a pond with a red pointy hat, with a fishing rod, for days on end, can be very tiring.

Then you got the cats pissing on you and the birds landing on your head.

Its no fun, I can tell you.

Its tough being a gnome

I got used typing “sudo service --status-all”

then got used to typing “sudo systemctl list-unit-files --type=service”

now a new one to learn “sudo nitroctl list”

looks simpler

That can only be a good thing for my gnarly arthritis fingers.

Hey SteveTech

I dont use internal or external SSD’s.

It maybe because I am an old greybeard, but I prefer to suffer the slight loss in speed of a HDD, so I can dd/erase/wipe them and reuse them again and again.

Though I have been using “disktest” to erase SSD’s and HDD’s recently and it has been working great. Much faster than zeroing with dd /dev/zero, shred or wipe.

https://crates.io/crates/disktest

https://github.com/mbuesch/disktest

However, I digress, I had not heard of f2fs before.

Ive been having an intersting read online.

It appears that it is a default for android phones.

I do have a few SSD’s laying around from when I replace them with HDD’s. So I will test f2fs on one of those.

Thank you

Hey pitiable_sandwich540

Thank you

I dont know why I have been so focussed and stuck on exFAT for all these years.

It must have been something I read somewhere that led me to it.

from all the decent feedback i have gotten on here, ext4 seems the best way to go.

I should have known this being a linux user for over 20 years.

Hey IanTwenty

Thank you

ext4 seems the way to go for me

Thank you Eideen

I have never used any back up programs, Maybe I should consider it.

Both Borg and Pike-backup are in the offical repos (extra).

I shall check them out

Thank you nyan

I will look into the dmask and fmask mount options.

Definitely a no! in regards to attaching my drives to any windows machine.

The last windows machine I turned on was a Windows 95 machine when they first came out.

I thank god, That I wouldnt even know how to turn on a windows 10 or 11 surveillance machine.

Thank you Hack3900

Thank you SavvyWolf

This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.

Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.

I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives.