KISSmyOS

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How to solve this boot error message? (lemmy.world)

I’m on debian 11, this error doesn’t show up every time, but once it appear I need more that one reboot and it will fix automatically without doing nothing, don’t know the reason why (just read that can be kernel dependent). What I want to avoid is that maybe it’s just a warning of somethink that will cause a pc break in...

KISSmyOS, (edited )

By default, your grub menu should show up every time you boot.
If it doesn’t, boot your PC and do:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
You need these lines:
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu

Every line starting with:
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT
should be commented out like so:
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT

Then run sudo update-grub and reboot.

What this does:

  • sets a countdown of 10 seconds before grub boots the kernel
  • tells grub to show the boot menu during that countdown
  • doesn’t use a hidden countdown that waits for a button press to show the menu

In the grub menu, select advanced options and there you should be able to select an older kernel to boot.

KISSmyOS,

Granted, I’m not a big AAA gamer. But out of 60 games in my collection, I couldn’t get 2 of them to run (Rocksmith and GTA Vice City), and for 2 others (Gothic I,II) I had to tweak some settings.
Which isn’t a worse ratio than what I was used to from Windows.

KISSmyOS,

Jumping into a lake is more intense with your shirt on.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

No, I just duckduckwent “Hacker Cat” and nabbed the pic where the cat had the smuggest look on her face.
My own cat made sure to dispose of all incriminating evidence.

What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)

It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

The only distro I could get to boot on my old Acer One was MX Linux.
It had the rare combination of 32bit UEFI support (cause the Acer supports neither 64bit UEFI nor legacy BIOS) and the necessary firmware out of the box.

But after upgrading it to the current release, it broke again. And then I threw the netbook away cause I have better things to do with my time.

Best Linux Distro for a tablet?

Been wanting to put Linux on my Surface Pro 7, but when i tried it with Ubuntu, it didn’t work as well as I’d like. I used the Surface driver kernel, but Ubuntu wasn’t really good with touch. It couldn’t give a pop up keyboard (only showed up when logging into my account, but never beyond that). Sometimes it wouldn’t...

KISSmyOS,

Fedora. It is the flagship distro for Gnome, and Gnome is the best desktop for tablets and convertibles.

KISSmyOS,

I’m old enough but it’s not the case anymore.

KISSmyOS,

I’ve read that the only way to get usable speeds is to set your wifi device up inside a linux container.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

(only way to get rich is to work more hours than someone else)

In our current system, this is not how you get rich, AT ALL.
Billionaires aren’t people who worked 3 jobs and lived with roommates until they made it. They’re not even in the same class as these people.

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    KISSmyOS,

    Wait, it’s already Debian December?
    I thought it was still Arch Autumn!
    Oh well, here I go reinstalling again…

    The Unity Desktop Environment an Underrated Masterpiece (unityd.org)

    Why is the unity is underrated when its what i use right now with Ubuntu Unity and its actually really great experience for my 2021 HP Stream 11 Laptop and i hope you all to share your experiences using the unity de in Debain Ubuntu Arch Fedora Gentoo Opensuse Etc thanks for your Amazing community my Wonderful Friends

    KISSmyOS,

    I always hated how it took away screen real estate from the top and the side for no good reason

    KISSmyOS,

    I was a broke college student, my pc broke, I had no money for a new one and my roommate gifted me a pc with OpenSUSE installed.
    It took me an embarassingly long time to figure out how to install software on it.

    KISSmyOS, (edited )

    I don’t know but non-serious developers use Slackware.

    KISSmyOS,

    I posted mainly because Debian now seems to force a switch in Unstable and many distros rely on its packages.

    KISSmyOS,

    A lightweight distro won’t help you since gaming and zoom will still consume the same amount of resources.
    Whatever your distro/DE needs to run itself isn’t even a drop in the ocean compared to your browser for example.

    KISSmyOS,

    Ah yes, somewhere in this drawer I probably have a couple of daily backups from 2017.

    KISSmyOS,

    KDE is the epitome of meh.

    KISSmyOS, (edited )

    My next project is to slim down my Gnome desktop installation, but I guess this is quite common in the Debian community.

    This is pretty easy on Debian.

    • Uncheck all tasksel entries during initial installation
    • Reboot
      sudo apt install gnome-shell gnome-terminal nautilus
    • Reboot again.

    It’ll boot right into a fully functional Gnome desktop and hardly anything else. The only extra software this installs are yelp, gnome-shell-extension-prefs and network-manager-gnome. Uninstall them with sudo apt purge and sudo apt autoremove --purge if you don’t need them. sudo apt install cups if you need printing and remove your wifi device from /etc/network/devices to let network-manager-gnome handle wifi if you use it.

    Your system will require 2.8GB of disk space.

    KISSmyOS,

    This also sent me last week. What in the actual FUCK?

    KISSmyOS, (edited )

    either the fedora, or the flathub build of firefox didnt come with some video codec, OpenH264 i think. switching to the other build fixed it (imo more a licensing issue with the codec than a flatpak problem)

    Just in case anyone in this thread also has problems with video playback on flathub Firefox, I just solved that by installing the ffmpeg-full flatpak.
    No idea why a dependency that is needed to play video without jitter isn’t installed automatically.

    KISSmyOS,

    OK, but what will be the soundtrack?
    Cause there’s absolutely no way it can compete with the original.

    KISSmyOS,

    Whether a painting is art doesn’t depend on who owns the canvas.

    KISSmyOS,

    Did he start to sweat and stutter, instead?

    KISSmyOS,

    furiously typing in German

    KISSmyOS,

    There are alternatives for every service they offer.

    I used to believe that, but what’s the alternative for a phone keyboard with swipe typing and speech recognition that actually works?
    Or a phone that gets reliable push messages and also works for banking?
    Cause I hate Google, but these are things I actually need in my life.

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