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MyNameIsRichard, in Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

Have you tried running themald?

LunchEnjoyer,
@LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

No have not heard of this before, will try it asap

nossaquesapao,

Thermald is the way. I have a fanless pc that used to hit critical temperatures and restart quite often, but after using thermald and simple rules, it works fine now.

Gork, in on arch btw.

I remember being endlessly entertained by the rotating cube animation between workspaces in the old Beryl implementation.

I told my wife, “but does your Windows do this?” Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, “I don’t care.” And that was that.

I shall tell this story to my grandkids.

JoeBidet,
@JoeBidet@lemmy.ml avatar

check wayfire :)

github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire

crackdroid,

Oh yeah! That’s ticking a few boxes for when I eventually switch from X(11).

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar
PoisonedPrisonPanda,

I wonder if thats based on a real story…

SayJess,
@SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

There was a jailbreak tweak for iOS that mimicked Beryl, it was so cool.

rudyharrelson, (edited )
@rudyharrelson@kbin.social avatar

I think I accomplished a similar effect on my first linux distro a long time ago with a program called "compiz" (iirc). "I'm so frickin 1337," I whispered under my breath. Nobody cared except me, though, lol.

PoisonedPrisonPanda,

Nobody cared except me, though, lol.

Life in a nutshell…

be_excellent_to_each_other,
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

IIRC Compiz was a fork of Beryl or the other way around. I could be wrong though.

Last I checked you can still do the cube in kwin under plasma.

russjr08,
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

It was gone from Plasma for a bit, however it’ll be back in the next upcoming Plasma 6 release!

vardogor,
@vardogor@mander.xyz avatar

at least wobbly windows stuck around though. i’ve had that on for like 10 years

russjr08,
@russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net avatar

Yep, same! Some of my friends have told me it’s a bit “silly” for me to have it enabled - but there’s plenty of bad things that occur on a daily basis in my life, I do not think there’s a single problem with having some wobbly windows as a small vice to enjoy haha.

be_excellent_to_each_other,
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

Woohoo!

simple,

“but does your Windows do this?” Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, “I don’t care.”

Wow, that sums up my Linux life pretty well actually

30p87,

Does your Windows do this? doesn’t crash

But seriously, yesterday I cloned my main partition to a new laptop into an LVM volume on LUKS. Because I did not have any way of putting the new NVMe and old SATA SSD into one machine, I just used netcat over an ad hoc network.


<span style="color:#323232;">nc -l 10000 > /dev/main/root
</span>

on the new Laptop and


<span style="color:#323232;">cat /dev/sda3 | nc 10.31.69.1 10000 -q 0
</span>

on the old one. Worked perfectly. Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots.

simple,

Last time I tried to mess with Windows partition I tried to expand it to merge free space in my C:\ drive, but I couldn’t do that because Windows put the recovery partition in the middle, with no permission to remove it. Had to jump through a million hoops to get Windows to remove it.

I mean sure, Windows is easier in many ways. Not partition management. Anything but that. What a pain.

lightnsfw,

Ran into that a few years ago. I think I ended up fixing it by booting linux off a flash drive and moving the partitions around in that. It wasn’t to difficult after I just gave up trying to do it in Windows. Such a stupid problem.

Hamartiogonic,
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz avatar

I think I see a theme here. Doing fun normie stuff on iOS/ipadOS is easy. Doing technical stuff is usually completely impossible.

Doing technical stuff on Linux is easy as long as you know what you’re doing. Doing popular normie things on Linux is a bit hit-or-miss. Some things work perfectly, but other things are a royal pita.

Windows seems to be in between the two extremes in more than one regard. Microsoft seems to be working to find some sort of compromise in these things.

andrew,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

Next time you could even add gzip or some other compression and save yourself a bit of time and bandwidth.

30p87,

The rate was around 100MB/s. So I think the bottleneck was probably the read/write speeds of the SSDs, considering I have ~900Mbit/s down from speedtest.net, and this setup removed every hop except the old and new Laptops Gigabit Lan Port and the Gigabit patch cable between them. But with larger files/partitions over the internet this would probably help

crispy_kilt,

Now do that on Windows with builtin tools in live boots

More like do that in Windows with any tools. It doesn’t like being moved to different hardware one bit.

30p87,

The only problems with my Arch install were

  • /etc/fstab, which I forgot about because I didn’t read the whole install article again
  • custom configs (notable conky) because i8k is not available and all interfaces changed
crispy_kilt,

Btw detected

30p87,

I’d guess many distros would’ve had errors with preinstalled and configured helpers. Debugging them would be a pain

Gentoo, LFS, Arch etc. are installed manually, so one typically knows their system very well, including packages and configs they might have to hard configure interfaces etc. in

30p87, (edited )

I just noticed I did not fully expand the fs on the target machine after shrinking it on the source machine to be sure it fits. No problem, growing ext4 file systems with resize2fs (indirect dependency of linux and base) works on mounted fs’ too, the Kernel just needs to be newer than 2.6 (so since 2003).
Took less than 1 second and works flawlessly, live. Conkys fs_free just jumped from 20 to 76. Still time to clear my caches.

0x0, in Overheating laptop, should I try a lighweight distro - which one?

Have you tried cleaning the vents/fans first?

LunchEnjoyer,
@LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah do it each year, should have mentioned that :)

bananaw, (edited ) in on arch btw.

Just switched last night!!!

So far it’s been great, but I need a way to migrate over my keybindings from xmodmap. I tried searching but everywhere I go gives a different answer. Can anyone help guide me in a direction? I’m primarily looking to remap caps to escape/control on hold. Would be great to remap some unused keys on my laptops keyboard to media keys as well. Thanks!!

glasgitarrewelt,

Have you tried the instructions on their github page?

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki#keyboard-layout

I haven’t tried that, but would be happy about a feedback from you if it works. So that I know what to do if I switch from Herbstluft to Sway one day.

bananaw,

Ah… Read the docs, should have known ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ntzm,

man 5 sway look for bindsym

bananaw,

Knew I should have read the docs ¯_(ツ)_/¯

In my (not very thorough) read, I saw something about the bindings being per application. Maybe I should stop reading documentation before falling asleep

Lober, in on arch btw.

Sway has become a joy to use over time as I’ve fucked with my config but now I feel like it’s more boring too I barely ever feel the need or want to massively change anything 🥲

callyral,
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

i think that’s called liking your current config

vynlwombat,

Ew gross

bennieandthez,
@bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml avatar

you can always use a login manager to manage different WM sessions. When i get bored of sway i switch to hyprland, i use different bars for each one too. Its bloat but its fun.

lemcat, (edited )

Same, I got “bored” so I tried hyprland for a bit on another machine, but when I realised I’d rather have the animations turned off, and was trying to make the config the same as my Sway one, I realised all I needed was Sway. Swaylove4eva

thayer, (edited ) in An Untold History of Thunderbird

Looking so forward to seeing K-9 Mail incorporate even more modern features (snooze!) and take on the new branding. It has already come a long way these past couple of years, and made my degoogling journey much easier. Would love to see an Android-based calendaring equivalent too. Shout out to cketti for all his hard work!

beejjorgensen,
@beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’ve been using TB and K9 for about a year now. Not even wanting to look back.

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I love FairEmail but I’ve been giving K-9 a try over the last few days and it’s definitely a lot better than it was a few years ago.

Bo7a, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

Did you move files to an NTFS shared drive? Proton + ntfs is flaky as all hell in my experience, and the problems are impossible to troubleshoot.

dynamo,

No, the drive has been ext4 encrypted with LUKS from the start.

pelotron, in on arch btw.
@pelotron@midwest.social avatar

On Hyprland for a few days now and feeling the same way.

GustavoM,
@GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

Amen. I’d install Hyperland on both of my “main” PC and on my Rpi 4 but my rpi 4 (still) has sway and it “just werks” so eeeeeh

Squiddles,

A couple days ago I tried Hyprland just to see what it was like. I've been on XFCE for over a decade and expected to play with Hyprland for a couple hours, go "Huh, that's cool", and uninstall it, but I think the switch may be permanent. It's fantastic

li10, (edited )

Hyprland is better if you’re on Nvidia as well.

Mainly because if you ask for help with Sway on Nvidia then people basically tell you to fuck off and call you a cunt.

For real tho, they’ll actually chastise you just for asking a question.

foobaz,

damn, Hyprland looks great 😅

flashgnash,

Hyprland is fantastic unless you have Nvidia

I have Nvidia in both my machines

dai,

Works fine on my laptop (1650 hybrid) and desktop (3070 no iGPU)

Under NixOS on both machines, no xwayland.


<span style="color:#323232;">  programs.hyprland = {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    enable = true;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    enableNvidiaPatches = true;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  };
</span>

Is the basics to get it up and running under NixOS + HomeManager

flashgnash,

I’ve done that already though haven’t disabled xwayland didn’t realise that would work without being compatibility

dai,

Just don’t run X applications 😅

I’ve seen no issues on my setup, might just be luck of the draw? What hyprland build are you running? What issues are you seeing?

flashgnash,

Whichever one is current in nixpkgs stable

On my laptop when it goes to sleep and wakes up everything looks corrupted and it crashes back to the gdm login screen after a second or two

dai,

You running anything from nix-hardware on your system? I know my laptop has a flake there that installs a few applications & fixes small things like hardware buttons for the ga401: github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/…/default.nix

I’m running unstable on both machines, with nix-hardware for my laptop only.

flashgnash,

I’m running it on my laptop I believe but pc is custom so I doubt there’d be anything there for it there

Poe, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues

Try using an older version of proton?

dynamo,

didn’t work

ad_on_is, in Help. Various games stopped working and i have no idea how to diagnose the issues
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

Can you pinpoint what you did to your system before? Did you do a system update? Did you move game files around? Did you add any repositories trying to install something that also updated other dependencies, or alike?

dynamo,

At most i updated my system and kernel, didn’t fiddle with anything else

ad_on_is,
@ad_on_is@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not familiar with mint, but maybe you can see whether you can easily downgrade to the previous version you had. And hold off on the updates until a fix is published for the broken stuff.

But before that, take a look at the mint communities and see whether it’s a known issue and whether there is a manual intervention needed to fix it. Something like “newest update broke some proton games”, etc.

piranhaphish, in Locking + unlocking my PC with a BLE-device?

I used BlueProximity for a number of years and it was great.

It eventually became defunct, but that link appears to be a fork to bring it somewhat up to date. I have not tested this new version though since I work from home now.

Guenther_Amanita,

Thanks, I will check that out!

I just saw the original project that was abandoned and didn’t know there was a fork.

Would you recommend installing the AppImage or shall I use another approach, like AUR in Distrobox, COPR, etc.?

sxan, in AMD+Wayland+dual monitor = Screen flickering
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I was getting flickering when my monitors were on, last tine I tried Wayland a month or two ago. Probably not the same issue, but these sorts of issues is keeping me on X.

TheAnonymouseJoker, in What happens when Linus dies/retires?
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

The role of Linus being a stubborn decision maker will be handed over to a competent close one to Linus. He is not letting any of the “sociopolitical” experts take over the tech role that Linux plays critical to servers, security users, militaries, governments and activists.

IAm_A_Complete_Idiot, (edited )

Linus has stepped away from kernel development before, and probably will again. Life continues on.

signor, in What is the best distro for gaming?

Just plain ol Fedora. Lots of recommends for Nobara but I doubt the performance increase from the tweaks will make much of a difference with modern hardware. I went down the “gaming distro” path years ago and it’s just not worth it imo. You do you though because whatever distro you’ll still be in go ol’ Linux.

Marduk73, in Should I install Linux on my smartphone?
@Marduk73@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ok I’d cut through all of this and focus on your needs: phone with no spying, can’t find rom. I assume you mean your phone isn’t supported for graphene, lineage, or calyxos, or any others I missed?

Easiest way: buy a phone that is supported for the privacy minded os you want.

conc,

Hardest way: buy a PinePhone Pro Explorer edition with all the accessories. Then miss several calls and texts, and brick it 4 times.

zzzzzz,

brick it 4 times

I’d be impressed if the battery lasted long enough for that!

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