#61 2024-12-25 18:38:34

Döbbie03

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

I hear you. I'd like to give Alpine a nice, long look, but brain overload getting it set up.

Year end backups -

https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/a1/7b/dU03TBEH_t.png

I had Alpine up and running, it was missing some applications I needed (can't remember which ones) so I didn't look much further than a bare bones dwm install.

I'd get Alpine set up, but then half-way through customizing I'd realize I was turning it into Void but with OpenRC. Defeat the purpose of running Alpine.

Exactly how I felt about using Artix, Void etc. I felt I might as well stick with Arch, I knew what to do if anything hit the fan.

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Döbbie03

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Gentoo install complete, I finally managed to work out why Picom wasn't functioning last night. Recompiled the whole system to suit my CPU yesterday.

Very happy.

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Döbbie03

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Okay, last one for 2024. Just posting to say that I cannot believe how snappy and quick my computer is.

All applications just seem to open instantly, even Firefox/LibreWolf. Hardware usage is super minimal. I fully intend to move to Gentoo fulltime.

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PackRat

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Okay, last one for 2024. Just posting to say that I cannot believe how snappy and quick my computer is.

https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/7c/31/qzb3hluT_t.png

All applications just seem to open instantly, even Firefox/LibreWolf. Hardware usage is super minimal. I fully intend to move to Gentoo fulltime.

How much optimization did you do for compiling?

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Döbbie03

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

I'm still working my way through understanding it all, but a few things I have done to make things more snappy are:

Adding more cores when building/compiling:

MAKEOPTS="--jobs 8 --load-average 9"

I'm using 8 of the 16 available cores, I could probably lift that but I'm fine with it for now.

Configuring the CPU flags:

CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt rdrand sha sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3"

Configuring the compile options for my CPU:

COMMON_FLAGS="-march=znver2 -O2 -pipe"

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PackRat

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

@dobbie03 -
Nice. You been to the Gentoo forum? They have some threads for optimizing compiling and optimizing custom kernels. That's going to be a lean & mean rig once you're done.

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Döbbie03

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

@dobbie03 -
Nice. You been to the Gentoo forum? They have some threads for optimizing compiling and optimizing custom kernels. That's going to be a lean & mean rig once you're done.

I haven't yet, from what research I have done, I don't need to do much more tweaking but it's worth my time to check it out.

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Very nice PackRat!  Could I get that wallpaper to use?  Thanks!

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PackRat

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Very nice PackRat!  Could I get that wallpaper to use?  Thanks!

https://wallhaven.cc/w/o5vmg9

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Gentoo install complete, I finally managed to work out why Picom wasn't functioning last night. Recompiled the whole system to suit my CPU yesterday.

Very happy.

https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/cd/1a/ZCYt8TmK_t.png

Dude, this and your next post... awesome!

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altman

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Nice shots fellas.

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Döbbie03

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Gentoo install complete, I finally managed to work out why Picom wasn't functioning last night. Recompiled the whole system to suit my CPU yesterday.

Very happy.

https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/cd/1a/ZCYt8TmK_t.png

Dude, this and your next post... awesome!

Cheers man!

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                                       - Theodore "Ted" Logan
"Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees."
                                       - Wayne Campbell

Döbbie03

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Thought it was time to bring back conky.

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                                       - Wayne Campbell

micko01

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Last for 2024

Slackware current Xfce 4.20 (wayland) - uses labwc as the window manager.

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MarkW

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

I made changes to the menu.  Sacrilege?

johnraff

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

I made changes to the menu.  Sacrilege?

No! You're supposed to tweak the system to suit your needs.
And the system is supposed to be easily tweakable, so please say if you hit a problem there.

That said, I can't see any difference in your screenshot menu from the default BL. What did you change?

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MarkW

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

Mine has icons.  And I enabled transparency, and rounded corners

Last edited by MarkW (2024-12-30 09:37:18)

johnraff

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

^The BL menu has icons and rounded corners by default. Or did you install the 'lite' or 'base' version?

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MarkW

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Re: December 2024 Screenshot Thread

I must have installed one of those.  Not sure which.  I just downloaded the first iso I found.