marcdw

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I used Garuda in the past and was impressed. What's cool is they have a bunch of ther own services in addition to Lemmy.

Garuda Linux | Startpage - https://start.garudalinux.org/

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Then resurrect it. Give it life by posting to it. ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I'm gonna have to give this one a try. Syncthing is being a pain in my backside.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Got Void running on an old laptop about a year ago. Very nice. The fact that it is not based on any of the others also made it appealing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

True. Luckily I don't have anything large (4GB+). I do plan to change the filesystem. I forgot to mention that I used to have Windows 7 on that old laptop. The other reason why the shared partition was FAT32/vfat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry for the really late response. Since one of the OSes is BSD I have one shared FAT32 partition mostly for basic getting-things-from-one-to-the-other stuff. Far as I know OpenBSD does not support ext4 (at least not r/w). It does support ext2.

Since all three OSes have the Nextcloud client it would have been cool to have its directory on a shared partition to reduce redundancy.

I may change things up, format it to ext2 and see if I can use it to share Documents, Music, Pictures, and Video across all three OSes. Maybe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I have a triple boot laptop with MX Linux, Void Linux, and OpenBSD on an old laptop where VMing wouldn't work so well.

As others have pointed out a shared home directory is not a good idea. Shared data (documents, music, images, etc.) would be fine as mentioned previously.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Never really distro hopped. Went from DOSLinux to Slackware and stayed put as my main. Having multiple machines, some multi booters, meant I had/tried a bunch of others. Vector Linux, Xubuntu, Debian Wheezy, several Arch-based (up to Garuda), various BSDs, and two unices (OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana, IRIX). Got an old ancient ToughBook (Pentiun II, 192MB RAM) with Arch before systemd collecting dust.

[ Those machines had multiple Windows versions also from Win2k to Win7 including XP x64 Edition ] Dem were da days. ๐Ÿฅฐ

Currently, Main laptop: Slackware. 2nd laptop: MX Linux, Void Linux, OpenBSD. Mini PC: Slint (Slackware-based).

Well, for the mini PC I did distro hop. Went through a lot trying to find the right one. Most were Arch-based (but not Arch itself) and they would indeed break at the worst time. Nature of bleeding edge rolling release I guess. Mostly I was looking for something non-systemd. Eventually settled on Slint.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have/had a bunch of these books. Some got lost but I have the electronic versions of them.

This is one other book I fondly remember. UNIX For Application Developers. From 1991 I think. I vaguely remember a statement in the intro along the lines of Windows being user friendly but UNiX being expert friendly. :-)

Couldn't find a better image.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Currently... Slackware on main laptop. Slint (Slackware-based) on mini-pc. MX Linux (fvwm respin), Void, and OpenBSD on old laptop. NsCDE is desktop on all except MX.

 

I know there are some CLI junkies using Termux on their Android phones but the terminal has always been a separate app. Termux Expert Launcher changes that. Always at-the-ready terminal while being able to quickly launch Android apps when needed. Type a few letters and matching apps show up below. The command app by itself will present a scrollable list of installed apps. Been sticking with this for awhile now and liking it quite a bit. Best on larger devices.

Termux Expert Launcher

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