Isn’t a light switch 99¢ or less especially if you buy a pack of 10 ? This does not justify a $200/month increase if you WFH like I saw in an ad. I wasn’t sure it was a joke or not

Best distro ever, stable, Xfce4

Of course, this is why I’m using MX Linux, it’s Debian based. systemd optional, no snap, no flatpak, stable.

I do about the same, something like rsync -av --delete

When this happens, can you switch console (ctrl-alt-f1) or restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace) or can you ssh from another PC? you can also in a window have a journalctl or something tailing the logs and see if something is happening there

Do you have GRUB? If yes you can edit your kernel command line and append “init=/bin/bash”, see if at least this gives you a prompt, this has saved me a couple of time in the past. Else booting on a USB and mounting your boot partition may help to fix it.

BTW I also have LUKS and I’m using TPM, using tpm2-initramfs-tool, first, it failed because I forgot the tpm modules in initrd, but I always have 2 kernels installed and only modify one initrd at a time to have a safe boot if I have a problem, like I had!

I tested tpm2-initramfs-tool with proper tpm2 modules and it worked.

I also tested with clevis-initramfs and clevis-tpm2 and it’s even easier, no messing with crypttab.

Also, as long as you can break GRUB and append “init=/bin/bash” it is not secure of course, you can then prevent grub editing or not using grub at all.

There is like 2 browsers, Firefox, or all the chromium based ones?

I’m an old coot and comes from preGUI area. My first unix experience were on 80x25 amber terminal. Then X came, I used mwm/twm/fvwm and things like this, it was very tricky to configure to your taste, mainly with config file, you wanted your xeyes, xload, xbiff, xclock etc at this place, transparent, no border, etc, very complicated. Linux didn’t exist.

Then Windows came… and kind of dominated the world with win3/95/98/etc. and at the time linux desktop were still not perfect + you had all kind of driver problems/missing.

As a lot of people I was used to windows GUI so I chose Xfce (also because France). Simple GUI, a button menu bottom left, an app bar, and systray icons and clock bottom right. Don’t need anything else.

I tried LFS, Arch, Cinnamon Mint, I tried Ubuntu, I tried tile, but nah, the simpler the better, Xfce it is.

I am using MX Linux for years now, Debian based, always up to date, .deb packages, no systemd, no snap, no flatpak.

True, and Alpha are even worst, most of them never touched a real keyboard, only use 2 thumbs on a phone. Don’t tell them about windows (or/mac/linux) or what is a UI or how to use a mouse and navigate in a OS, they don’t get double click or right click, resize a window, minimize a window (OMG THE WINDOW IS GONE!!!) it’s impressive.

I have seen a lot of late Z/early Alpha who cannot make some special characters on a keyboard like " or $ or even worst using AltCar. Using Word to write a letter, using keyboard shortcuts, etc. they are completely clueless with computers.

I like awk, I started using it in the 90s in university, I’m not a pro, but this is so powerful!

Install MX Linux (not the AHS version) it is Debian based and pretty nice

First thing Vivek will do is abolish the FBI

autoconf and stuff like this? Not anymore. Since ~5 years here it’s cmake everywhere, Conan, ninja.

ah câliiiiiiisse ça faisait longtemps je jouais!!!

I had a Samsung colour laser printer, they provided driver for linux, I installed them, everything works, full support for settings etc

Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

Pretty sure ATM runs on super old stuff like OS/2 or Windows XP or Windows CE ?

Btrfs may have compression on by default so take it with a grain of salt

nope, it works really well, for more than a year now, this is my work PC using 8h/day, I’m using MX23 AHS version. Directly in the setup you can select encryption and btrfs volume etc. btrfs is pretty stable.

Btrfs in a luks container so it’s encrypted.