Going back and looking at this from a different angle of relearning fundamental concepts and not just saying "gimme desktop" is instantly demistifying this

Also a huge thank you to the frankly frightening amount of people I follow on this website that use Linux for their day-to-day, haha

"mastodon isn't one website" i know shut up

@ShugoWah so if you, say, make that ssd your root partition, and the HDD your home directory, in effect, you'd have a comparable setup

@SwooshyCueb aaah neat, but then like most read/write would be happening on my slow drive, not just the programs I decide aren't speed-critical, right?

@ShugoWah there are other solutions, but yes

@ShugoWah when you start making tangible preparations to make the jump, give me a holler and we can sort it out

@SwooshyCueb I'm basically there right now, haha

@ShugoWah oh shit! I'm pretty much all out of energy for the day, but when I wrap up what I'm doing right now I'll give you a poke on discord

@ShugoWah because Steam puts everything in your home directory anyway, and it's likely where any VMs and wine prefixes would also live

@ShugoWah everything I know about Linux I taught myself on a tiny partition on my personal computer I used primarily to hide the furry porn I transferred one image at a time via the floppy drive in high school.

@ShugoWah a lot of linux concepts are in the misc sections of the manpages

so if you type "man 7" and hit tab a couple of times, a lot of fundamental topics will pop up!

of course, not all of these are important, but it's nice to know they're there if you get confused about a convention you see

the one describing the filesystem hierarchy you're looking at is "man 7 hier"

@ShugoWah its funny to say "on this websites"

@daylight ah hey btw I sent you a follow request from this account whenever you get around to it ;v;

@ShugoWah uhhh says you follow me?

@daylight oh, weird

@daylight pfft well I just unfollowed/followed again and this time it went through correctly, haha

@ShugoWah @daylight i had this happen once for some reason! Idk why it happens

@poss_bot @daylight Might have something to do with importing a follower file, haha

@ShugoWah posssss ible

@ShugoWah my account isnt locked?

@ShugoWah furry has its origins in using weird OSes

@sugar I later learned that most big things (mostly linux steam games) install in big localized packages, so I can just make steam libraries on a bigger slower drive just like I do now

@ShugoWah if you haven't learned about symbolic links (usually called symlinks) they're like the best thing linux has

@sugar Is this sorta like the concept of windows shortcut files?

@ShugoWah but better because it acts like the linked file/directory is actually in the place you put the shortcut

@sugar yes! cool okay I that's what I thought but I was having a hard time communicating it, haha