MiddledAgedGuy

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MiddledAgedGuy, (edited )

I haven’t seen this mentioned yet, and there’s a good number of responses so maybe I’m up in the night, but it seems to me Manjaro’s philosophy is somewhat counterintuitive to Arch’s. Arch pointedly obfuscates system internals as little as is reasonable to “keep it simple” from a system perspective. Manjaro simplifies things for the user but creates additional obfuscation. I can see some people who value Arch’s approach being less than amenable to that.

But that’s not a reason to not use it. If Manjaro’s approach appeals to you, use it.

BTW, I don’t use Arch (at the moment)

MiddledAgedGuy,

Is there a specific benefit that you’re expecting from dual booting? That tidbit might help us talk you out of it 😁

Seriously, I think a VM is almost always the better solution.

MiddledAgedGuy,

I have no great solution to games that don’t work. Thankfully it’s increasingly rare. And I get wanting to do something just for curiosity’s sake.

There’s PCI-E pass through to hand direct control of your GPU to the VM if you aren’t already familiar, but my two cents is dual boot is less of a pain.

MiddledAgedGuy,

I can’t argue with that!

I enjoyed the all too accurate description.

MiddledAgedGuy,

I get that it’s probably a joke. But I would absolutely go out of my way to get small bills to buy basic grilled sandwiches from this person complete with, what I assume, is barely hospitable service.

I feel like that’s kind of a hipster thing? I don’t care for the label, but I can’t argue it sometimes fits.

MiddledAgedGuy,

Just :s/x/w/g on every bit of source code and recompile wscreensaver.

MiddledAgedGuy,

I agree. I don’t use Arch (I have in the past) but I use Arch Wiki heavily.

MiddledAgedGuy, (edited )

Highly regarded VPN service.

I use linux for the same reason I wear fuzzy socks and sweaters

My understanding of the history of fashion is that back in the 1950s America it was expected that you wore a suit/dress at work unless you had a different uniform. There were a bunch of very boring people who thought that we should be wearing office job garb all the time, because they wore suits so much it was their default...

MiddledAgedGuy,

I appreciate the not your office OS commentary. I have the use Windows for work. I do this mostly via RDP to a work provided laptop, as well as a win10 VM for MS Teams. And I take great pleasure in shutting those down at the end of the work day.

The last tolerable version of Windows for me was XP. I find myself fond of Windows 98, but that’s probably just nostalgia speaking.

MiddledAgedGuy,

I don’t doubt this this is generally the case, but most of the games I enjoy playing with friends offer their own servers. Which got me thinking about it, and they tend to be indie games.

So it’s not gone. Niche, perhaps.

MiddledAgedGuy, (edited )

I’d recommend against any of those choices.

  • Puppy Linux: It’s a solid live boot environment but it’s not really ideal in comparison to the major distros on a permanent install.
  • Alpine Linux: Since it uses musl instead of glibc, you’re likely to run into problems
  • Linux from scratch: Going through LFS is a great way to get a solid understanding of Linux, but unless you want to spend more time maintaining your system than using it, it’s going to be a frustrating experience.

Try one of the distros others have suggested.

Edit: I checked the specs on that hardware and yeah that’s going to struggle. Maybe Alpine would be ok. It’s fairly easy to spin up and might be fun to play with on that hardware. You’ll probably want a fairly large swap if you’re planning on using a desktop environment.

MiddledAgedGuy,

I symlink the AppImage. It’s still a manual process in that you have to recreate the symlink but feels like less of a hassle than updating the desktop file.

MiddledAgedGuy,

While one should, ideally, use AMD over Nvidia with Linux. It sounds like OP is shooting for older hardware, so I’m going to assume GPU performance isn’t a significant consideration. Nouveau should be fine for regular desktop usage on older Nvidia cards.

But trouble with assumptions. If you do want the most out of your GPU, AMD is the way to go.

MiddledAgedGuy, (edited )

I’m not much of a fan of Discovery, as seems to be the case for many Trek fans. It’s alright though. But this aspect I found myself enjoying. I liked the whole mycelial network angle.

MiddledAgedGuy, (edited )

I appreciate what he’s done for the FOSS movement.

I’ve read up his commentary about underage women, choosing to form my own opinion. And yeah I find it pretty gross.

MiddledAgedGuy,

Random article I found said about 26% of people in the US use adblocking services. Working on the assumption that’s reasonably accurate, that’s a pretty big chunk of ad revenue.

MiddledAgedGuy,

In that it’s not gonna run Cyberpunk 2077 or AAA game of your choice at 4k and a solid 120fps with raytracing, it certainly won’t impress, no. In how it can play almost any given Windows game out of the box with comparable performance, assuming your system is specced to run it, I think is impressive.

MiddledAgedGuy,

Water cooling feels unnecessary and expensive. Like most of my hobbies. I don’t get this particular one, but I can appreciate why people might.

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    MiddledAgedGuy,

    Ironically/coincidentally – Can I blame Alannis Morisette for my lack of understanding of the differences? – I watched “V For Vendetta” recently. Nov. 5th and all.

    In it (if you’re unaware) the US tore itself apart while the UK kept some semblance of order through authoritarianism. So, feels half right? We’re tearing ourselves apart over attempted authoritarianism.

    MiddledAgedGuy,

    “national security threat” == “threat to the regime we’re trying to establish”.

    MiddledAgedGuy, (edited )

    And owning a truck in the the US, I feel, is a status symbol for many that purchase them rather than any need for carrying/towing stuff. So extra pointless.

    Edit: And even if so, they don’t need to be so big.

    MiddledAgedGuy,
    • Void
    • EFI and LUKS partition, containing an LVM with root/home/swap. Ext4 partitions. I’m vaguely aware of btrfs and zram but haven’t taken them for a spin yet.
    • ufw
    • wayland
    • basic plasma install + desired apps.
    MiddledAgedGuy,

    What’s the problem? Good faith question, not being disagreeable. Does he go on about struggling actors in the documentary? Oh or a famous person using their fame to their advantage?

    MiddledAgedGuy,

    Ah, I was only vaguely aware of the writer’s strike and didn’t tie that together. It all makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation. That’s pretty shitty.

    MiddledAgedGuy,

    I love it! I think these two might be my favorite pairing of the entire franchise.

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