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If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

[xorg-official]

If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

[xorg-official]

If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

[xorg-official]

If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

[xorg-official]

If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

[xorg-official]

If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

[xorg-official]

If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

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Please go follow my new blog @x11-official if you liked this one! I'll try again to be active... at least for now.

If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

[xorg-official]

If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

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okay, situation report:

My Fedora install is no longer bootable

My files are, however, still intact

i have 2 EFI partitions for some reason

my diagnosis: i fucked up my EFI partition somehow and that is why grub is throwing a tantrum

is it possible to fix a broken EFI partition?

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This is incredibly accurate. I tracked down a complicated and basically impossible-to-replicate race condition which had me learning about process file descriptors returning nonsensical error messages. Not to mention the time I spent a whole month wrangling NVIDIA blocking my shutdown due to the different ways in which Linux and Windows handle GPU switching. I'm completely ignorant of basic stuff like SSH and still pretty bad with Git, but I can write at length about the history of sleep state support, solely because I've had to fix bugs where it was relevant.

I love learning about computers, but I only do so when I run into a problem. For example, my new GPU wasn’t performing as well as I’d hoped so I tried to delete the old drivers and start from scratch. But the driver uninstalled wouldn’t run bc it couldn’t access all my drives. So I decided that this was the last straw in the weird drives/OS/boot issues I’d had over the past two years and it was all bc of how I built the damn thing (cloning drives so I didn’t have to buy windows bc I didn’t know about activation keys and the like 6 years ago). I decided to disconnect my storage and recovery drives and reinstall windows from scratch. But I couldn’t reinstall windows du to drive formatting and partitions. So I opted for Linux which doesn’t care about that stuff (and can help you format it the correct way). After Linux was up and running my GPU still wasn’t performing well. I tried installing the extra AMD drivers multiple times but to no avail. It turns out it was bc my MB was using Legacy BIOS instead of UEFI (I still don’t really know the difference or why that would affect my GPU but no matter). I switched to UEFI only and re-reinstalled Linux and now everything works great (enough for now at least) and I’ll probably be switching back to Windows (mainly for gaming tbh and bc it usually just works without using cmd) now that I have the right efi partition before re-re-reinstalling Linux but as a dual boot this time.

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While I am happy to follow and support my comrades who use Wayland (or Arcan), one line I try not to cross is that I'll only share someone's rice on this blog if they're still using X11.

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the neofetch on my laptop :3

also the colors look a lot less intense and a lot more blue-ish on the actual laptop display (some weird old display technology with terrible color accuracy)

(q4os identifies itself internally as just plain old Debian 12, according to the devs this is for compatibility purposes)

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I enjoy terminal applications, but I only use them if they're either 1. something I mainly use while troubleshooting/maintaining my system (htop, powertop) or if all the graphical alternatives are, for various reasons, terrible (gomuks, unipicker).

To be fair 1. is a pretty big category, and I think a lot of the love for CLI from more experienced users is because you really do want your updates and diagnostics to be able to run even with half the system broken. But in my ideal world there'd be perfectly customizable GUIs for almost everything.

I can only interpret the desire to use the terminal for everything as a sort of trauma-induced atavism caused by excessive exposure to electron, convergent UI design, and GNOME.

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linux is the kernel, you're thinking of linux's monster

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Yes, you must install the distros in full alphabetical order. If you deviate at any point, your computer will explode and you will have your Linux license taken away for all time.

chat was installing Arch as my second ever Linus distro a dumbass move? i really like it but now people have me panicking

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the story of my brief adventures in linux customisation has been steadily ongoing, culminating in a 24h experiment with @arch-official yesterday.

(unfortunately i do not have the willpower, patience, or energy to learn and tinker in such depths that arch requires me to, so it was but a brief excursion)

(though i definitely want go give it another try in the future!)

went back to my beloved opensuse tumbleweed again this evening, but instead of doing what i've always done (kde plasma install), i went with a mininal desktop. aka just icewm.

from then on i installed @hyprland-official and set out on some much lighter-feeling tinkering.

(important to note that i went with hyprland on arch yesterday too, and have also done some brief, failed experimenting with it in the past year)

it's been fun! i've noticed though that the minimal install came with a start-sign-in-package that i didn't like so i installed sddm to replace it. and god is the basic basic version ugly. and idk if i'll be able to get it to look the way it does when i simply go for a kde install.

seriously it's jarring how ugly sddm looks out of the box (which. i been knew but still).

plus i can't log in with root??? like. i can't switch my user???

so i might do yet another quit reinstall of tumbleweed tomorrow morning but with kde plasma as a backup de, even though i don't want to go through the whole clean-up process because kde comes with too much stuff i don't want or need...

(it's almost certain that i will reinstall again)

hyprland becoming my main work environment is a given though, and i'm really excited to spend even more time really customising everything to fit my wants and needs :3