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unklar · 2024-05-19 17:25:16

Sector11 wrote:

unklar wrote:
BTW, I don't have nvidia.
I still want to test this on a laptop with nvidia.
Now that's asking for OOPS!

No.
If you deny nvidia with N in the questionnaire, then no driver from Nvidia is loaded and installed. You keep nouveau.

I also equipped this laptop with hyprland today. It has an SSD and, since I already knew my way around, it only took 65 minutes. There was no OOPS. Let's see how long.

Sector11 · 2024-05-20 03:14:58

OK we have a misunderstanding.

I mean testing with nvidia would be an oops!

I don't ever want another nvidia experience again.

shortarcflyer · 2024-05-20 18:46:19

Playing around with Linuxhub Lite and Linuxhub Openbox on my testing labtop. Lite is first pic and openbox is second pic. Both are very light on resources and interesting to mess around with.

altman · 2024-05-21 14:44:38

shortarcflyer wrote:

Playing around with Linuxhub Lite and Linuxhub Openbox on my testing labtop. Lite is first pic and openbox is second pic. Both are very light on resources and interesting to mess around with.
https://i.postimg.cc/cvdwytPh/2024-05-20-140024-1280x800-scrot.png
https://i.postimg.cc/XBwGtn8t/2024-05-20-141805-1280x800-scrot.png

Nicee @shortarcflyer, I wasn t aware of this distro.

unklar · 2024-05-22 15:52:26

Now I know what 103 wallpapers are for...
They change automatically when you log in or during operation. Apart from the setting for the weather, I haven't had to do anything yet.

If this is the future, I'd like to be 60 years younger...

Sector11 · 2024-05-23 17:07:54

unklar wrote:

If this is the future, I'd like to be 60 years younger...

Less the age I am now - 9 another months.

And I'd refuse to come out!

EDITED

Last edited by Sector11 (2024-06-22 15:53:44)

unklar · 2024-05-23 17:47:43

Sector11 wrote:

unklar wrote:
If this is the future, I'd like to be 60 years younger...
That age I am now, -10 months.
And I'd refuse to come out!

^lol ...and, I laughed heartily again (and spat all over the screen).

unklar · 2024-05-26 15:21:29

The day yesterday with Debian-Hyprland was a bit chaotic.

First, I had installed unison on the HP laptop to 'pull over' DATA from the desktop. For this I use the unstable repo of npreining, because it ensures that the unison application is more up-to-date than debian.
The source computer in the home network is BL-Beryllium (TP x40).
After setting it up, however, it failed to work with the info: "bash unknown command in line 1".
.Since I had no time for troubleshooting (probably due to the version numbers, Beryllium(Debian11)--->Debian-Hyprland(unstable), I finally copied with the command.

scp -r -p -v /DATA/match unklarer@192.168.178.46:/media/DATEN

~21 GB of data in ~41 minutes.
r=recursive
p=the original timestamp is retained
v=verbose

Unison does this in about half the time.
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I continued with the desktop. I had set Hyprland to the suspended state at lunchtime, but waking it up again did not work. No input mask for the password appears. This works on the HP laptop.
Since nothing worked, I shut down the computer with Alt+Print+b.

The restart greeted me with the initramfs and the message of a damaged superblock.
To repair this, was from BL-Boron a

sudo fsck /dev/sda7

was necessary.

On Githup I had seen updated files for Debian-Hyperland.
First I updated siduction-unstable and then ran the install script from Githup again. Again the known questions have to be answered before the script starts.

After the restart I am greeted by the new look.

I hadn't considered that the new waybar configuration files would be used and my own settings would be lost for the time being. Fortunately, there is a backup for ALL of them and restoring them is easy (the backup is created by the script).

Yes, and, the error with suspend has remained on the desktop...

So, I've written this down here to perhaps encourage some of you to give Hyprland a try. It's worth it!

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shortarcflyer · 2024-05-26 18:40:35

Installed Garuda yesterday. Xfce distro but added openbox window manager. Logged into openbox in the screenshot. Since it is Arch based I am really liking it among my other installed Arch distros.

Sector11 · 2024-05-29 02:40:50

unklar wrote:

^lol ...and, I laughed heartily again (and spat all over the screen). https://i.imgur.com/xjTgQyk.png

Been there, done that type thing.

Sorry for the delay. Real Life

Colonel Panic · 2024-06-09 12:59:40

I recently installed the latest version of Manjaro (XFce). It works well enough on the whole except that internet access appears to be patchy.

I've also installed SolydX, which has a light peach-coloured theme and being heavily based on Debian stable also works well.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-06-10 08:42:32)

Colonel Panic · 2024-06-22 13:58:20

I've just installed Gecko Rolling (Bare Bones), which is based on OpenSUSE
Tumbleweed though admittedly not the latest version of it.

Tumbleweed has received a lot of praise online but in my experience its
handling of dependencies isn't as good as Debian's, especially if you want
to do anything off the beaten track. (Or OpenSUSE Leap's for that
matter).

For example, when I wanted to install opi it wouldn't let me do it unless
I first uninstalled a package called linsnmp. Opi also failed later on when
I tried to use it to install Qalculate and Strawberry, with Python errors both
times, so I gave up.

Next stop; Ultramarine 40 and (maybe also) a Ubuntu 24.04 based distro such as
Lite.

[Edit: I managed to install Ultramarine but the internet connection with it is intermittent at best. I can't honestly recommend it to others until I know why this is happening.]

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-06-23 23:34:49)

altman · 2024-06-23 12:49:55

SolidX s pretty nice distro as well @Colonel Panic.

Been toyin with ArchCraft & ArcoLinux lately.

Colonel Panic · 2024-06-23 23:38:05

altman wrote:

SolidX s pretty nice distro as well @Colonel Panic.
Been toyin with ArchCraft & ArcoLinux lately.

Hi Altman,

Yes it (SolydX) is; it's also got a nice summery theme to it which is why I tend to install it at this time of year (I'm in the northern hemisphere). I'm not this board's biggest Arch fan unfortunately although I sometimes use Manjaro or Mabox (a Manjaro spinoff made in Poland).

altman · 2024-06-24 11:28:36

Cool !

I ll use Arch-Derived distros that are easily installed ! lol I don t have the patience to install Arch by itselve & all of those.& have not enough knowledge to make a fresh Arch install also.

I m fooling around with those lately on my desktop;

ArchCraft/CachyOS/PopOS &/orMXLinux.They re presently doing the trick for me.

Last edited by altman (2024-06-24 20:53:11)

Colonel Panic · 2024-06-24 20:04:37

Excellent! I've tried Pop! and like the tiling extensions to Gnome but Grub in Pop! doesn't probe the hard drive for other partitions when it installs, so I usually have to install another distro which does probe the hard drive for other partitions when I install it (or use MX's boot repair - see below).

MX I agree about too, and I keep an old copy (MX 21) on my hard drive. It doesn't take up much space, not even the KDE version (which I have). I've not tried Cachy and I think I had problems installing Archcraft (though I can't remember what).

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hhh · 2024-06-24 20:34:16

Colonel Panic wrote:

Grub in Pop! doesn't probe the hard drive for other partitions when it installs...

Boot into Pop!, open /etc/default/grub as root and uncomment or add or switch from =true the line...

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

Then...

sudo update-grub

altman · 2024-06-24 20:48:46

hhh wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Grub in Pop! doesn't probe the hard drive for other partitions when it installs...
Boot into Pop!, open /etc/default/grub as root and uncomment or add or switch from =true the line...
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
Then...
sudo update-grub

Good tip @hhh.

altman · 2024-06-24 20:56:17

Colonel Panic wrote:

Excellent! I've tried Pop! and like the tiling extensions to Gnome but Grub in Pop! doesn't probe the hard drive for other partitions when it installs, so I usually have to install another distro which does probe the hard drive for other partitions when I install it (or use MX's boot repair - see below).
MX I agree about too, and I keep an old copy (MX 21) on my hard drive. It doesn't take up much space, not even the KDE version (which I have). I've not tried Cachy and I think I had problems installing Archcraft (though I can't remember what).

On MX s side, I still have to try out their Fluxbox Edition, as I tried MX-Linux 23.3 XFCE
_x64 “ahs”, that work just fine with my install. (Important to note that they all installed with my NVidia GPU which can be a pain with some distros, & I don t want to mess with thoise issues as my lowewr back hurts since wednesday again( some recurrent thing on my end as well as shoulder pain, but it s getting better)

On Cachy OS s side, better try out with their latest iso , guess that they fixed some issues that they had beforehand.Also, I m on XFCE version as I didn t like its OpenBox version that I tried beforehand .

Pop! OS & ArchCraft have been good with some tweaks here & there, as I do to any install that I do.

Edit; loads of typos .

Last edited by altman (2024-06-24 21:09:24)

Colonel Panic · 2024-06-25 14:07:23

Thanks for replying altman (and hhh, for the tip). Altman hope you feel better soon.

One thing I like about Debian, and distros based on it, is that you can update it from even quite a long way back and it will still work without a hitch (I recently updated a version of Spiral which was based on Debian Oldstable and it's still working fine). As I found out recently, you can't do this with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and you can't with Arch or several other distros.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-06-25 14:08:23)

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