Windows can't do this

>windows can't do this
>takes 30 seconds of commands on linux plus just waiting for the actual copy

>b-but linux is for autists!
>b-but windows just werk!

I have two hard drives, 500GB and 4TB. I need to, in a single step:

copy bit by bit the first hard drive into the second one
resize the partition to 4TB
swap the letter names of the two hard drives so that running applications keep working as if nothing happened

>b-but this is a weird edge case!
everything is an edge case if you use your computer just for porn and league of legends :^)

Find a drive cloning tool. WD and Seagate both offer good ones for free.
If you have to do this regularly, write a script.
The OS is fucking irrelevant.

windows offers no way of swapping the drive letters only upon reboot so that the actual change happens in a single step.

Pretty sure you could hack that shit into the registry.
No one would do it though.

More like no one would really need to except Autist faggots [read 80% of /g]

-Click install linux
-None of my drivers are supported from printer to the graphic card

Nice try linux.

>None of my drivers are supported from printer to the graphic card

what kind of shit do you have in your computer? you have to try hard to have devices not supported by linux. I have *never* had a single device lack good drivers, and I have a pretty niche printer.

>using the smiley with a carat nose

>I need to, in a single step
No you don't

>>No you don't
why is that, and how do you know what I need or don't?

>EaseUS partition manager
wow, that was hard

I need my linux to teleport pizza to me

You can not prove me wrong,but you still know that i will survive without said pizza.

mine is a reasonable use case that linux handles fine, yours is nonsense. Barely more than
>waaaa I don't have anything useful to add so I'll just throw around some shit
still doesn't have the "in one step" requirement. Also, not windows but a third party software. All that's needed on linux is included in the distro from installation even in the most minimal of distros (dd and ed/nano/vi) and is supported by the mantainers of the distro.

>"in one step"
There is no atomic operation for the shit you want, it's not gonna be in one step the way you do it either.

> (You)
>still doesn't have the "in one step" requirement. Also, not windows but a third party software. All that's needed on linux is included in the distro from installation even in the most minimal of distros (dd and ed/nano/vi) and is supported by the mantainers of the distro.

>But hurr durr it doesn't give me a lollipop to go with my ice cream
Cry about it.

in linux this is accomplished by simply changing 2 (two) letters in /etc/fstab

>in a single step
You are a fucking faggot, do us a favor and never post here again, in fact just go back to plebbit.

I'm not the one having to use windows for more than 2 hours a week :^)
I'll make sure to post here twice as much as I usually do, transforming the volume of programming and technical advice into shitposting. Just for you, user

changing shit in fstab doesn't do shit until you reboot, which is, surprise, an additional step. (Or actually a lot of steps)
And that doesn't include any copying of data, which are yet again aditional steps.

If the side effects are the same, does it matter? Every application will believe to be operating on the same files as before the reboot, the /dev/sdXY id that used to contain nothing now is filled with stuff but it doesn't matter since "nothingness" wasn't referenced by any application anyway. Compare this to windows, where I have to do three changes of drive letters (tmp = a; a = b; b = tmp) that will break my shit on the live system.

>transforming the volume of programming and technical advice into shitposting
>m'lady
Nevermind what I said, just fucking end yourself.

...

>implying greentext is just for quoting
You're even more retarded than I thought, have fun talking to yourself.

>linux can't do this
>takes 5 seconds on windows

>b-but windows is for normies!
>b-but linux just werk!

I have an actual, non-shit computer. I need to, in a single step:

open software actually used by professionals

>b-but this is a weird edge case!
everything is an edge case if you use your computer just for ricing and anime :~)

2 ≠ 1

>using the smiley with a carat nose
>uding the smiley with a squiggly nose

>uding

you mean like photoshop, which works on linux? or like reaper + wineasio + jack + kontakt (industry standard in orchestral sampling for movie soundtracks) which works on linux with less latency than on windows? Or maya, industry standard for animation, that has a native linux binary? Or most thefoundry software, industry standard in just about every area of CGI, including Nuke, which shits over every alternative? Or latex, used by pretty much the whole scientific community? What about most computer development tools? With the exception of Visual Studio for C# and maybe C++ with external plugins, every dev tool on linux shits over its windows counterpart, unless it gets ported to windows, but even then, clang based tooling is catching up at a very fast pace.

Unless by "software actually used by professionals" you mean malware installed by incompetent users. Yes, windows is very good at supporting malware authors via bad security practices and weak security models. I agree completely with your sentiment.

windowsfags BTFOd, they are stuck in the 90s
(｡>﹏

>"""""content creator"""""" shit
>code monkey shit

How about tools for people with real life jobs?

>Linux: The never ending game of "catching up"

(｡>﹏

>>"""""content creator"""""" shit
100 billion dollars industry
>>code monkey shit
do you realize that you're posting on a website likely developed on linux, served from many linux servers, passed through a linux reverse proxy, to arrive to your router, which runs, you guessed it, linux?
>How about tools for people with real life jobs?
how about deep learning researchers, solving unsolved problems in computing at a pretty crazy pace? deep learning software is practically usable on linux only.

linux is steadily getting every single good thing windows has, while windows stays there and ignores all technical advances made by linux

>running applications keep working as if nothing happened
There's no need for a Windows desktop system to be able to do this.

Let's play the other end now.

>linux can't do this
>windows does it flawlessly

Resume from sleep without kernel panicking.

Sure, but it's still not caught up yet. I can't wait for that to happen so I can finally go full Linux, but as it is, Windows is just way too comfy to leave for an all the time linux which will probably fall prey to all the same problems of windows eventually.

>Resume from sleep without kernel panicking.
I have used linux daily since 2010, and used sleep almost daily. Never had a crash or a problem. Many times, doing the exact same on windows, it decided to either randomly spin up again, or shutdown completely.

lord, why do people even reply to these autists? As if anyone would want to do all that with "a single command" instead of doing each step independently to prevent failure of the whole processes because one step failed.

>works on MY machine :^)
Why do lincucks always do this?

are you serious? look up what an atomic operation is, especially why it's useful.

Actually it's more like
>Works on tens of thousands of machines
Which, yes, includes my machine

Why bother looking anything up? Its just common sense, any procedure can be made more likely to succeed by compartmentalizing the process. Its pointless to do it with one command when it saves no time and you wont be repeating the process more than once.

just because you put it in your skiddie bash script doesn't make the operation atomic, friend.

>using the smiley with a carat nose

Who are you quoting?

T. Faggot false flagging in order to get an actual reply because people keep ignoring his question on the stupid questions thread

Report and hide.

False, windows stole a lot of shit from GNU/Linux because their billion worth company couldn't come with anything better than what something some virgins made.

How about install the 4TB HDD, install the OS, then copypasta your shit from the old one and stop being a dumb faggot.
Takes like, an hour, tops.
And if someone tells you it takes too long, tell them to either yell at the PC to move faster or fuck off because either is just as much of a waste of time while you're trying to do your fucking job.

>It's quite simple
Why do so many achoonux guides start out that way? If it was actually simple, there wouldn't be a need for a guide at all, hence why design even exists. Instead, why not just state the obvious "it's just some commands u pussies"?

what the fuck kind of question is that supposed to be

...

thats real edgy

So all of this shit is in plain-text configuration files that could easily be parsed by a wrapper GUI, but you still have to do it in a command line an do guess work and use stupid hacks to make it work.

Why are Linux developers up their own asses?

Because it's fake, most modern Linux distributions have a disable webcam button somewhere hidden in the options. Why would you trust anything written here?

It shouldn't be a "disable webcam button", it should be a fucking device manager. Stop patching Linux, fucking fix it.

Also Redhat-based distributions probably do not, because, you know, SERVERS AND BUSINESS AND IT AND GIVE US SHEKELS FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT etc.

Would you prefer only having a breaker panel that controls every switch in your house, or just having normal switches? You can only have one or the other.

What? The terminal is the breaker panel and the wrapper GUI is the switches.

That metaphor works on every level, too.

Ruby on rails is really popular, its not bad at all

So you've never had a dedicated GPU, right?

I agree with you. If there's one thing that Linux (or any *nux for that matter) is fantastic at, it's ghosting and resizing drives.

But this too. Linux really does need some sort of common device manager, even a CLI one would be fine as long as someone could theoretically write a GUI wrapper for it.

SystemD provides most of the tools needed for this, but no one seems to be taking advantage of it.

So you've never installed linux, right?