I have had it installed for a while and I check it after every update. I can’t use it yet as my daily driver because of scaling issues. The desktop scales properly but windows do not. Fonts are too small and the cursor is tiny. I figured out how to scale the cursor manually but I couldnt scale the windows.
If you want just boot your system and not have to worry about setting up keybindings, my best suggest is ArcoLinuxB i3 Edition and Garuda Linux i3 flavor, you really don’t have to worry at all for that, and you can use the i3 reference card to learn the most common keybindigs.
Does this “obviously” have to use AI? I can see a tool that sorts files into folders based on file extensions, modification dates and/or metadata could get the work done.
And if organising files by content (e.g. “my zoo trip”, “meetings with Xenia”) is that important, doing it manually seems like a better idea because accuracy is presumably important.
I don’t really see the distro hopping argument either. Even if you don’t share your home directory between installs, presumably you copy over your files as directories rather than individually pouring them into one super folder?
I think a lot of folks with very limited IT knowledge think AI will solve things that have been solved for decades.
The issue is availability and elitism. A noob user doesnt know how to find this stuff, google is so rotten that its not help anymore and pros often just shit on them instead of making a comprehensive wiki.
Lately I’ve been using chatGPT to create a bunch of small custom python programs to do stuff like this (if I can’t easily find an existing program to do what I want).
For example I would tell it something like:
<span style="color:#323232;">Create a python program that does the following:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-asks the user for a directory to process
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-sorts the files in that folder according to file type, placing them into appropriately named sub-folders, eg all image files into a folder named "images", all music files into "music" and so on.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-creates any new sub folders before moving the files
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-moves the files verbosely
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">-gives the user a notification upon finishing
</span>
You can customize it to do exactly what you want, and it takes only seconds for it to give you the code.
I can’t even begin to tell you how much time it’s saved me over the last few weeks, automating simple stuff that would normally take ages.
I think that’s a good start, but the baseline of what AI can do. These scripts are around since filesystems have been invented. And you can do this with one (lengthy) shell command. Or one of the already existing file sorting utils. (something like this [Edit: see next comment] or Hazel or DropIt) With those you can even configure if it should recusively visit subdirectories and do individual subdirectories for the filetypes or mangle everything together for example in one big unsorted mp3 directory.
What I’m waiting for (I’m not OP) is something that looks at the content of the files. Do a directory for all the manuals I downloaded for the household appliances, find out on which event I took a photo and make a correctly named album for that, find the project files for my diverse electronics projects and file them into seperate directories together with related info. And find the mp3 files and TV recordings with a mismatch of metadata and folder structure.
I think what you’re describing is definitely the way things are heading. I would love a teachable, automated AI personal assistant. But I think I’ll wait for an open source, hardware agnostic version that I can self-host.
The COPR package didn’t work for me on Nobara, so I had to build from source, but it works great. There are a couple of things I don’t like, but overall seems pretty neat.
If I can get Xwayland to work nicely for steam with high refresh rates, then it seems like this might be the WM for me until COSMIC-DE comes out.
I think the point is the number of times someone is having such an issue, and those people show up to proclaim they’ve never had such problems as if it’s helpful. So, at least you can recognize it’s not.
figured it out, solution in one of the comments I replied to… basically my laptop was non-discoverable by default and there is no setting in the system to make it discoverable
I solved it somewhat. There’s only two entries in fstab now but for some reason the efi partition still gets automatically mounted and the grub theme dosen’t work
You’re using refind, you need to specify the quiet splash parameters in refind config. You can do this every time you boot by manually editing the entry, for example if you want to test that editing this would work, or you can edit the config file with the boot parameters.
I don’t know how you have your refind configured, mine has a /boot/refind_linux.conf file where I can put the boot parameters, e.g. mine looks like this:
<span style="color:#323232;">"Boot with standard options" "rw root=/dev/nvme1n1p2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"Boot to single-user mode" "rw root=/dev/nvme1n1p2 single"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"Boot with minimal options" "ro root=/dev/nvme1n1p2"
</span>
Here is my /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf file. I’ve only ever added the theme line at the very end. As a new linux user editing this scares me so any help from anyone editing this so that plymouth will work would be appreciated.
Sorry about that, I edited the comment to a pastebin link. Okay here is my /boot/refind_linux.conf file:
“Boot with standard options” “ro root=UUID=96e2ea68-742d-4309-ae9f-4d12ba668b21” “Boot to single-user mode” “ro root=UUID=96e2ea68-742d-4309-ae9f-4d12ba668b21 single” “Boot with minimal options” “ro root=/dev/nvme0n1p4”
Should I just edit the boot standard to “rw root=/dev/nvme0n1p4”
No, you should edit it to be something like “Boot with standard options” “ro root=UUID=96e2ea68-742d-4309-ae9f-4d12ba668b21 quiet splash” mine says /dev/nvme0n1p4 because that means device (/dev/) first nvme SSD controller (nvme0) disk number 1 (n1) partition 4 (p4). If yours worked with that line you copied from mine it’s only because coincidentally your / partition is the fourth partition on the first nvme SSD on your computer. (Or maybe because that config is not being used).
A question though, why do you want to use refind if you don’t know the basic about partitions and boot drives? I think you’d had a better experience using the default one which is GRUB.
Thank you! Changing the line to “rw root=/dev/nvme0n1p4 quiet splash” did the trick. Your actually said /dev/nvme1n1p2 so I know enough about partitions that I changed mine to dev/nvme0n1p4 to fit my case. I only know that much about it because I’m running a duel booted system and had to deal with partitioning when I set it up. Your right to point out that I’m a bit over my head when using refind, but I changed it instead of using grub because I like the customization with themes and I read somewhere that it could help with windows updates messing up duel booted systems.
edit: I’m now having a new problem where it’s not using the boot splash screen that I specified in the settings. It just the oem logo with a kubuntu logo under it. At least I’ve made some progress 😂
Cool, didn’t noticed you changed it to your actual partition, although I should have because there’s no reason for me to have 4 partitions on my disk. That being said using UUIDs for booting is better than device names, if you add or remove a drive the device name can change. In my case it’s a laptop and only has one name slot so I’m fairly sure it won’t change, plus I had to write that file manually when I first installed my system so I was lazy and used the device name, but you already seemed to have the proper UUID there, so changing it to the device seems a bit backwards.
GRUB is also customisable, although I agree that refind looks a lot nicer. I don’t think refind is any better than GRUB in dealing with Windows updates, the problem is that Windows has this annoying habit of formatting the MBR so it essentially wipes all other boot managers from the drive, which is why people recommend having windows in a different drive so it can’t fuck up your boot manager, but I know that’s not always a possibility.
As for the splash screen being wrong I can’t help you there, I actually like the checks scroll that’s the default without a splash screen so I’ve been using that for a while now.
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