ProtonBadger

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[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Indeed, besides most linux distributions are fairly equally lightweight and can be customized. I tried 4-5 distros this past January (Arch being one) when I got my new gaming laptop and they all booted in ~9.5 sec for example, and perform equally well in general, they had fairly similar RAM load with the same desktop environment.

Arch is about managing the system as a hobby, which is fine.

One problem here is that new users install Endeavour/Garuda but don't know how to manage updates safely about pacnew/pacsave/etc. So the system might slowly "rot" without them knowing about it because new components use old configs, etc..

I also recommend Mint to new users. I don't use Mint, nor do I use Arch.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah I had a similar issue, my Nvidia driver got updated to 545 and suddenly PRIME offload did not work for Steam games. After a little while Flatpak update pulled the nvidia 545 flatpak stuff and it started working again.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you have issues it's usually a configuration issue or a misbehaving daemon, try investigating with "systemd-analyze blame", "systemd-analyze critical-chain" and "systemd-analyze plot > boot_anal.svg".

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Suddenly i feel nostalgic for xbiff. No longer useful but he was a good dog.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Meh, they both support a ton of formats and encodings. Just use whichever feel best, even install both.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've noticed a lot number of questions on reddit/etc. suddenly gets asked in that way ("why" in front of a statement). As an ESL I was confused for a while because I've been drilled in asking questions using auxiliary verbs.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

It's a single metric out of many for a file system, let's see if someone investigates.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The application startup test is designed to cold-load an application with heavy background IO going on.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With regards to Arch based distros: Do you still need to read Arch news to spot potentially breaking updates and know how to diff pacsave/pacnew, etc. or have Garuda found a way to manage these things?

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Most prompt customizers have an option for showing how long last command ran and whether it succeeded/failed or simply prompt timestamp, it's often default. I use Tide, there's also Starship and a number of others. You can also roll your own ofcourse.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, it seems like there could be a weakness there, unless it's just a fluke. The test has a background I/O load designed to stress BFQ I/O.

[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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