Fedora vs. Snapper: The Btrfs Snapshot Guide
Fedora ships with Btrfs, but it doesn't ship with automatic snapshots. Here is how I set up Snapper to bulletproof my workstation.
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OpenRC Isn't systemd (And That's the Whole Point)
KDE Plasma crashed hard enough to require a reboot. The culprit: services that systemd would have auto-started but OpenRC very deliberately did not. Also, /run/ is empty after every reboot and nobody warned me.
81.2GB Hiding in Plain Sight: Storage Forensics on Gentoo
I spent 4 hours trying to migrate a VM between hypervisors. Kernel panics, graphics corruption, UEFI nightmares. Then I ran fdisk and found 812GB of unallocated space on my main drive.
Hyprland on Gentoo: Wayland Done Right
Setting up Hyprland on Gentoo with OpenRC taught me that sometimes the hardest bugs are the dumbest. A gaming keyboard lock nearly cost me hours of debugging.
When the System Breaks: A Btrfs Snapshot Recovery Story
I broke my Gentoo system by reinstalling 815 packages. Sound died. Google Drive vanished. Here's how Btrfs snapshots saved me from a multi-hour debugging session.
The One-Click Reboot: Switching OSes with Efibootmgr
Why browse the GRUB menu? Creating desktop shortcuts to reboot directly into Windows or Linux using 'grub2-reboot'.
Argo OS Development Sprint: Btrfs Snapshots and Binary Packages
A deep dive into fixing critical boot issues, implementing openSUSE-style Btrfs snapshots, and setting up binary package infrastructure for my custom Gentoo distro.
Fixing Galaxy Buds on Linux (The Battle of ERTM)
How one kernel parameter stood between me and working audio. Also: Making the Argo OS installer fully automated.
Building Argo OS: 100 Days of Creating a Custom Linux Distribution
The complete story of building a custom Gentoo-based distribution with automatic rollback, distributed compilation, and hybrid package management. Part disaster log, part technical guide, part therapy session.
The Argo OS Journey - Part 2: The Qt6 Crisis & The 2-Minute Rollback
Everything was perfect. Then I ran a system update. How a simple elogind mismatch broke KDE Plasma, and how Btrfs saved me from a 6-hour debugging session.
The Argo OS Journey - Part 3: The Cloud & The Code
Local snapshots are great until your house burns down. How I built encrypted cloud backups with Rclone, accidentally wrote a 2,146-line package manager, and learned that udisks2 is not optional.
The Argo OS Journey - Part 4: The Hybrid Vision
Why I decided to mix Gentoo and Nix. Creating a system that is perfectly optimized at the core and perfectly reproducible at the edge. And yes, I know this is over-engineered.