i officially left windows yesterday! :)
One of us one of us
Edit: hows it going? Everything working ok?
i installed manjaro and tbh I don’t think I’m going to touch windows again unless I have to. my only unsolvable issue so far is (I think) my PC is having a hard time detecting Linux when I restart my computer. it just sometimes will tell me to restart and change to a bootable drive through BIOS.
You may need to double check how grub is configured (set it to UEFI if necessary, legacy mode etc) and or updating it. You will want to update the firmware also and try setting grub at the top of the boot list
I honestly don’t even know what grub is :(
I always loved computers and took quite a few computer science etc classes and went to my local tech college for IT while still in high school. but now I seriously feel like an old grandma trying to learn all this new fangled computer stuff!!
Oh no worries! Grub is the boot loader. So you turn on the computer and the firmware looks at its list of things to boot from. When you first installed manjaro it booted from the usb and let you install the OS while running off the usb. Usually you would have had to go into the firmware to adjust the boot priority list, and put usb on the top. Now you can go back in and look at that boot priority list again. Now what you’re gonna look for is where manjaro installed grub you can make that the top priority so that next time you reboot it will choose grub, and grub will fire up your linux install. Also in that firmware menu you can look at the other boot options, for example if you have an HP laptop you’re going to need to enable legacy booting because the default secure boot settings sometimes cause issues.
Switching over to a tiling windows manager has been really enjoyable. It feels like a futuristic paradigm shift
Yeah it makes a big difference. My desktop experience is quite a bit worse since bismuth stopped working in KDE.
Definitely my Framework 13 AMD. This machine is truly perfect
How’s the battery life? I was considering one recently but saw some claim that the battery would only last 4-6 hours and that put me off.
I have the 55Wh battery. When I’m not using the Power Saver profile, I’d say it lasts for 5-6 hours. Using the Power Saver profile, I get around 6-7h. Keep in mind I have the base Ryzen 5 model and 16GB of RAM, so power utilization may vary depending on your configuration
What would be a configuration to maximize battery life?
I didn’t really configure anything apart from installing power-profiles-daemon, selecting the Power Saver profile in Gnome UI and lowering my screen brightness. If you’re planning on getting an Intel Framework laptop, you could use TLP to further tweak power usage but on AMD, you are advised to only use the power-profiles-daemon.
Here’s a resource on Framework’s website that may be useful to you
Not the latest, but one of the biggest improvements was the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. Now I have programmed the keyboard to have VIM navigation at the keyboard level. The latest was switching to neovim and setting it up properly.
Deciding on the folder where to keep backups to cloudsync so i can reinstall everything from scratch.
A script full of functions that I perform often, like:
- Probe every 5min for internet connection. Play Black Sabbath when there is. (My internet goes down often.)
- Create individual tarballs/zips/rars for each subdir.
- Extract all tarballs/zips/rars from a dir. (It detects the format on its own)
- Extract all files of a DwarFS file into a dir.
- Re-encode all vids from a dir.
- Delete all thumbnail pictures from my user.
- Find and remove all desktop.ini and thumbs.db files in a dir, recursively.
My .bashrc then
sources that script, so to use those functions I simply open a terminal. And if I ever need to delete my .bashrc and recreate it anew, they’re safely stored in my scripts directory.
Fish, and a searchable command history.
What were you using before?
Just bash
What about Ctrl+R?
Oh, I get it. You install a searchable command history on top of Fish, not that Bash doesn’t have a searchable command history.
Does Fish not have that?This one https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
I disabled the sync capabilities tho cos i like to keep things local
Ohhh. I like that. Zsh’s history features just don’t quite line up with my needs.
First thing I install in each platform is fish
Yeah i had avoided it cos it wasn’t behaving with vscodium in flatpak but finally got around to reinstalling code on the machine directly.
Edited my kernal parameters to prevent my CPU from going into a low power state that had been causing crashes for years apparently.
Edit: if you use 1st gen ryzen and have been putting up with intermittent crashes thinking it was your shitty old used GPU like me, try disabling c-state 6.
Ryzen crew, never rest, never sleep!
I am so confused that this is still an issue, but be warned even with more “modern” Ryzen it is an issue. My Ryzen 5(?) Huawei matebook still can’t run Linux without this shit.
Weird. I’ve used 1000,2000,3000,4000 series without any issues ever.
Fantastic for you 🙈
Got quite savie with the grub parameters, wasn’t practical tho. Wait for this baby to dye, my next one gets some prior research
Lowering swappiness to get more usage out of my RAM.
unlocking luks over ssh
Reinstalled Arch. I had used Arch way back in 2006, but fell out of Linux because I primarily game. Now that proton has improved so much, I dropped my windows install completely. I have tumbleweed on my desktop but decided to try a real Arch install on my laptop. I appreciate how easy tumbleweed was to create an encrypted lvm with snapper rollback, but wanted to understand it a little more instead of having a GUI do it all for me.
Last night I successfully installed Arch with an “luks on lvm” setup, and was able to successfully boot! I didn’t quite get snapper working 100% either rEFInd, but I think I’m close.
I definitely appreciate how easy Linux is to install now, but it’s good to know I can do it the hard way if I need to, and learn some things along the way.
Repartitioning one of the extra disks that was still on NTFS to ext4 and updating the fstab entry accordingly.
So, nothing big.
Learned how to use zoxide. Makes my terminal so much friendlier
I reinstalled from scratch. Went from Xubuntu to minimal Ubuntu with KDE de. And then tried wayland again. One the one hand, gaming performance went up by a lot which was basically my main issue.
On the other side it is buggy af. The file manager fails mostly at moving files. There are random graphical glitches. Had the whole DE crash/lock up a couple times And the tabbing/tasbar handling is (still) not what I want. I also have still not found out why zfs automount does not trigger.
But at least I have something useable again!
On the other side [Wayland] is buggy af.
I’ve been having the exact opposite problem since recently coming back to Linux after a long hiatus. For me, Wayland has been flawless, while anything x11 looks like somebody ran the screen through a shredder, discarded half the strips, and smooshed the rest back together.
I don’t know how to troubleshoot that. I don’t even know what to type in a search engine to get relevant results.
Cleaning up the junk.
I went through a lot, and put my dotfiles in my dotfiles repo.