CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV

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[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no clue but I do have a question. If you want to mess about with window managers and ricing them (I like that as well), wouldn't a non immutable distro be easier? It is "immutable" but it seems you want to mutate all kinds of stuff.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I think that's because the user can still fuck up their system by doing some stuff to those user files, like not managing their packages correctly. Note that for normal users anything that messes up their user experience equates to messing up "the system". But I don't really know, it's just a guess. I just run a normal distro where you can mess with everything (like god intended lol).

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I use Artix btw. Pretty stable, I guess I have to fix something a few times a year.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I have been using Dash for years now as bin/sh. I couldn't manage to get rid of Bash so it's still installed (distro is Artix). As an interactive shell I run Fish. Dash is indeed rather terrible as an interactive shell as others have said.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As long as it doesn't hold you back in your real work you can just keep tweaking because it is fun. Just see it as a hobby where you learn things and potentially improve your workflow for other tasks.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Hopefully other software doesn't follow this path, otherwise it will be practically impossible to run a distro without systemd.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

My nvidia drivers used to break sometimes but I just switched to dkms drivers and I have had a stable experience for years. Only downside is the upgrade takes a bit longer.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I have replaced it and it just clipped in and out of a round little thing it sits in. I happened to have the right battery on hand.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'll make sure to replace the CMOS and use disk encryption next time. My sensitive data is encrypted separately so I'll be fine for now. I thought that with a bios password someone couldn't just boot from a USB on my system but clearly it only delays such actions by a minute or two.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

You're totally right, it only makes sense. Maybe my brain needs its battery replaced as well.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Thank you, that makes sense. I guess it was almost dead and now it is really dead. I don't understand how that makes Linux freak out over the login password though.

 

I'm running Artix Linux for many years without problems. Since a while, the system clock would lag behind between boots. I thought the CMOS battery was dead so I just synced the time with ntpd every time.

Just recently my bios password was gone all of the sudden! I didn't disable it at all. It just boots into Linux without asking for the password. I got the message "account [account name] has password changed in the future". My login password has not changed and I didn't attempt to change it.

Just now it took a few tries before booting which spooked my out. The bios password still gone and the same message upon login. All of the sudden the date is set to 2018-01-01 (usually it is just a few hours behind).

Is my motherboard just dying? If the bios password can just disappear it doesn't provide much security lol.

[–] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago (6 children)

There seem to be way more people that keep saying that they hate Arch users who keep saying that they use Arch than Arch users that keep saying that they use Arch.

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