It’s not a million miles away, but it’s still got some problems. The ‘extract archive’ functionality seems to do it for me; think it must be wanting to pop up a (nested?) file chooser, but causes a session crash.

Cinnamon legacy for getting work done, and KDE wayland for playing games, for me. Nice to go 100% cinnamon though, for sure.

It’s a lot compared to a year ago, no? And yeah, agencies tend to be very risk-averse, don’t want to move to an unproven platform. A few success stories will help the rest follow.

Aww, man alive. Most perfect desktop environment I’ve seen in years, and then it’s a full OS rather than just a DE. Had been looking in the ArchWiki for how to install it and everything.

SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!

Isn’t the default installation of Ubuntu to BTRFS? In which case, you should have an @ subvolume with Ubuntu that’s mounted to /, and an @home subvolume that’s mounted to /home.

Make a new subvolume, install a new operating system into it, and choose that subvolume in the bootloader, should be able to have Ubuntu and ‘your favourite OS’ (I use Arch btw) living side-by-side with the same home directory.

They split up :-(

I had one of the Macintosh iBook G4s with the notoriously shitty graphics card soldering. Early days of lead-free soldering. Mine started to fail just outside of warranty. The ‘fix’ was to put a lot of pressure on the chip so that all the connections were held in place, but that was quite difficult to do while it was still a laptop.

Dismantled the damn thing, yeeted the plastic shell, and screwed the remains onto a sheet of plywood. Looked a lot like pizza-box PC in the corner there. Got another couple of years out of it. Made it a lot more convenient for watching videos, since you could just prop the whole thing against a wall or whatever. Couple of USB extension leads meant that you could still use a mouse and keyboard in comfort.

While it’s awesome that I’ll finally be able to get all my porn onto one disk, I do hope that they manage to improve the data rates on these disks. If they’re the typical 100 MB/s, then that’ll be 12 days to fully read or write one of these. We’d be looking at basically an entire month to resilver one of these in a RAID, which probably justifies a special risk assessment for their usage.

Building Vim from source is pretty damn easy. cd vim && make && sudo make install. Just need to be careful not to run it by accident, or you’ll be restarting Linux From Scratch from scratch.

To be fair, their installation page is excellent, but it does require close reading. Where I’d messed up was the “install essential packages” section, where it just says to “consider installing” stuff which is essential really - firmware, network stack, a text editor. If you’re able to access the internet and adjust configuration files, then you can install everything else you need.

Their suggested disk partitioning has a gigabyte for efi, which is twice what I’d recommend, and includes a swap partition, which I would not create. A swap file is just as good, and more flexible. Otherwise yeah, if you can install Arch, you can probably do all the Linux maintenance you’ll ever need to do, and it’s not that difficult - practise in a VM if you want - and will make you much more skilled and confident.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

I actually find that starting a ‘raw disk partition’ virtual machine for Windows is one of the best ways to run it. Stops it from fucking up your BIOS and EFI when it does an update. You can restart into it when you want the ‘native GPU’ for games.

Of course, the even better way to stop Windows from fucking up your hardware is to not allow it anywhere near your hardware in the first place…

Ah yes, the ‘Arch Linux’ experience. To be fair, your machine boots really really fast when you don’t read the install guide carefully enough and fail to put a network stack on. Valuable learning opportunity.

I’m still trying to make ‘sloppers’ happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.

You can turn off “delete”, but modification is a danger, it’s true.

Turning off delete makes it excellent for eg. backing up photographs on your phone. I’ve got it doing this from my Android to my raspberry pi, which puts them on my NAS for me. Saves losing all my pictures if I lose my phone.

Yep. Got an Intel AX210 Typhoon Peak in my (AMD) laptop. Never had a single issue. Their CPUs might be crap, but their wifi is the business.

Must be wholesome, if you love someone for their brains. Rotty isn’t looking as stitched-together as usual, tho.

Happy Mullvad user here. In an ideal world we’d have both - GUI is great for my phone, laptop and desktop, but my home server needs CLI.

And Mullvad lets you have five ‘things’ on each account, which since their naming convention is a bit crazy, allows me to recreate the connection for one thing before I have to go through them all and note down which is which.

Not if you get an error from the initramfs saying that it can’t mount the root partition, no. Start from the install media, mount the drives, chroot in, mkinitcpio -P && pacman -Syu and everything was fine again. I wouldn’t like that to be the first introduction to Linux for a newstart, tho - better that they install Mint or something with a few more guard rails.

If you can’t install Arch from scratch, you probably won’t be able to fix it when it breaks. Protip: don’t run a big update in a different workspace, forget about it, and then hibernate your laptop. That would be bad.

GPS location of your home and work, plus a map of isolated locations where you can regularly be found? Yeah, I can’t see any reason why they’d be interested in that.