The like to dislike ratio on your comment ironically proves your case

You should do some research into using lvm - essentially one partition (pv) and named groups (vg), virtual partitions (lv's) that you can grow or shrink on demand as long as there's some free disk space still available

I like to name them by os + drive type, e.g. volume group names for you could be "mintnvme" and "nobusb"

The handbook is fantastic and Gentoo is a great learning experience - my tips are:

• setup binrepos (saves a lot of compile time)
• if using as a desktop, install a browser that has a binary package option like opera or vivaldi (or even Edge). Do not use chrom(ium) or firefox - they each take hours and/or massive ram to compile

I'm not using flakes yet but the intent-to-add git option is new to me and seems very useful, thanks!

Forwarded to my nieces and sister in laws with the message they can all expect steam machines for Christmas

Nice, I'll post mine as a reply since it's very similar :)

Work: when I started we were Centos/RHEL with some Debian, then pivoted to primarily Debian, now we have pivoted to Ubuntu.

Work Desktop: Besides obligatory Windows I have been on Gentoo +KDE for the last 10 years, but the Chromium portage build times as well as some weird performance degradation finally became too much and I just recently switched to NixOS (with newer hardware).

Home Server: Slackware/Gentoo for a while starting in the mid 2000's, then stuck with FreeBSD for over a decade. Since then I've just happy with Raspian on an rpi, but looking at switching it to NixOS

Home Desktop: Wasn't much of a category for me and usually just a Windows junkie at home, but recently been very pleased with SteamOS

LVM is in your favorites? It's essential command(s) for sure but every time I use it it's trial and error because I didn't use the correct flag case and/or argument order

that whole movie was gold

Indeed, I miss the James Cameron golden era when he was pushing cinema boundaries and not pumping out the nth iteration of Avatar

My password is Huntarr2

American here - Yeah , I loved black licorice in my adolescence but I picked up some salty black licorice from IKEA this week and holy hell I do not like it.