Ooh, my family’s was a 386 Wang Exec. My mom upgraded to the 384MB 5.25" internal hard drive. Dual 5.25 and 3.5 inch disk drives. So many memories.

Wild. 5.27 broke it completely for me! (2070 Super)

I upgraded today!

Encountered only one multimonitor issue with one panel migrating to the primary display after logout/restart, but otherwise, smooth sailing.

Wayland session even seems stable on Nvidia again (I have nothing but regrets about that GPU choice I made 4 years ago).

Bah, I read Nobara and assumed gnome. You said KDE right there.

Well, good news: Kwallet has a similar feature, albeit through an extra package: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet#Unlock_KDE_Wallet_automatically_on_login

To hazard a guess, this is a gnome keyring asking to be unlocked after login?

Caveat: it has been a few years since I was on gnome.

You can tie it to the login with the gnome keying PAM module.

Podman + distrobox might be the fastest way to get up and running.

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_tips.md#using-init-system-inside-a-distrobox

These are absolutely reasonable criticisms.

But Mozilla is better that the big G in this respect, and fastly is at least attempting to do something. So for that, I give them kudos. Especially on the heels of the Encrypted Hello announcement.

The Jack Welch playbook!

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/01/1101505691/short-term-profits-and-long-term-consequences-did-jack-welch-break-capitalism

Unexpected Futurama

For the uninitiated

He’s merely protecting his and his family’s interests. His son runs the coal business he started and he has been making special deals for it ever since.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/08/manchin-family-coal-company-00003218

This might be controversial, but I don’t think performance between distributions is really worth considering unless you have a very niche hardware requirement.

Features and community really make the difference.

My 14+ year old laser printer “just works” on the latest linux kernel. It has been several years since MacOS supported installing the last driver binary created for it.

Not at all. A mini split is a kind of heat pump, but refers to a specific kind of installation.

Most of these are “air source” heat pumps, but there are also ground source or geothermal pumps that exchange heat using a loop of liquid buried in the ground.

We’re installing a “whole house” air source heat pump to replace our 40yo inefficient gas furnaces and add cooling. This will utilize our existing duct work.

I think they’re saying that Nvidia hardware doesn’t benefit from being at the bleeding edge, so stable, LTS style distros will also work just fine.

As far as AMD vs Nvidia today, I can confidently say that you’ll have a far better time with an AMD GPU at the bleeding edge.

I just went through this decision. I landed on Garuda with Nobara a close second. I was coming from Manjaro which was almost completely stable for the last 3.5 yrs. I was only moving because I picked up a new SSD and wanted to see what else was out there.

I chose Garuda not because of the better gaming or perf, but for the preconfigured BTRFS with auto snapshots on upgrade and the presence of a distributed team reduces the “bus factor” problem that Nobara has for future updates and support.

I’ve been caught out a few times from upgrades on rolling distributions, so the simplified approach to rollbacks is greatly appreciated.

Now for the caveats:

You won’t get Wayland with Garuda and Nvidia by default (at least with their “stock” dr460gonized edition on KDE). And if you have more than one screen, I’d say that’s probably for the best right now (especially if they vary in resolution, refresh rate, or orientation).

I’ve found that there’s a few little polish things that leave me a bit wanting, but they’re by no means deal breakers: one of my USB hubs won’t reinitialize after waking from suspend (which worked just fine in Manjaro) and color codes (but not full escape sequences) are printed in terminal applications (eg man journalctl prints 1mDescription0m and the like). They’re both probably issues with the Garuda customizations, so I figure debugging them will help me understand things a bit better.

If you’re willing/able to hop between distro for a bit, I’d suggest trying at least a couple on for size and seeing how they fit you!

Nobody here cares! It’s the best!

Also the subject of Cory Doctorow’s “Down and out in the Magic Kingdom” from 2003.

https://craphound.com/down/2016/03/04/whuffie-would-be-a-terrible-currency/

Oh, nice! Does this work regardless of X/Wayland?

Heads up though, might be headed towards extinction with the manual tiling added in 5.27 https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth/issues/471#issuecomment-1410969462

Polonium seems to be a possible successor: https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium