every single interaction I have with Linux requires me to learn some arcane bullshit about partitioning tables or mebibyte-alignment or some shitty command-line tool from the 1980’s that is probably going to brick my hard drive. this kind of stuff right here is why I stick with Windows. fuck this

@kasdeya

I think Gparted can do this (it's a GUI application) it's what I've always used for disk stuff on linux

@pharmafemboy ooh thank you! I’m definitely giving this a try because parted and fdisk are both terrifying to me lol

@kasdeya I highly recommend using a GUI like gparted. I am fairly familiar with gdisk and LVM, but I have to use those at work and I'd still use gparted if I could for those servers.

That said, gdisk/gdisk is not the worst CLI program I've ever used. IMHO the disk slicing utilities for BSD are horrendous.

@kasdeya what do you use to need that kind of manual partitioning?

@shijikori I made the mistake of installing Arch :/ but! others pointed out that I can use gparted instead, which seems way nicer and easier. so when I need to do the partition resizing (which I managed to put off thanks to some help from others on Fedi) I’m going to see if I can make a bootable USB that has gparted on it, since gparted refused to resize the partitions while they were mounted

@kasdeya yeah, Arch is part of your usability issues. Ubuntu doesn't require nearly as much use of terminals. Fedora is also pretty good.
I like the kde partition manager but gparted pretty good as well. If not better by some metrics.