OP, a term you may find useful is ricing. This is the sub-community of Linux users who focus on customizing their desktops. You can look at the unixporn subreddit to see examples of how much a DE can be customized.

Ex:

This is KDE Plasma

This is also KDE Plasma

This is also a, very customized, KDE Plasma

(video)https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1w2afj0/kde_my_2nd_ever_linux_rice/

Another is dotfiles or dots, ricers will sometimes make their .config files available for other users. (Be careful here, this can include hidden malicious scripts and such uglies. Use your best judgement).

You may as well just completely replace your package manager with this one simple script.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys

exec(TrustedAgent.request(f"Write a Python statement to install {sys.argv[1]}, make no mistakes"))

system roulette:

yay

https://xkcd.com/327/

For the new folks.

Linux Gaming has had some interesting moments

The crunchy ones grow in the left half of the peanut and the creamy ones in the right.

After a while, but probably more than a month, you would need to refresh your keys as the ones that your system trusts would not match the signatures on what is being downloaded from the repo and you would be getting signature errors.

You’d just install archlinux-keyring first, and then do a full system upgrade. If that didn’t work you could refresh the keys with pacman-key (pacman-key --refresh-keys) and then install archlinux-keyring->upgrade.

Your system would work fine without updating, though I guess eventually a new version of HTML will come out in a decade or so and your browser won’t support it… but until then you’d be fine(security issues aside).

so brave

Just block them and their community and move on, you’re not going to have a good faith conversation with them and their presence in comment threads is just rage baiting.

It’s a gimmick account of a troll, don’t feed them.

PXE booting is pretty neat, but it’s a lot to setup for home use.

I did a lab where we configured an immutable distro to boot using an encrypted RAM drive as storage (using TSME). The machine had no storage other than RAM (and NFS mounts). We were trying to harden a machine against coldboot/evil maid attacks. It was a neat project but a bit too clunky for daily driving and also, a RAM drive in this economy?

What I don’t understand is why super critical errors are hidden away in a log instead of being shoved in my face once they happen.

That’s a choice you make when you’re setting up your bootloader, you pass a kernel parameter that tells the kernel what to show on the screen.

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html

If you’re using grub, look in /etc/default/grub. There will be a line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“<kernel parameters>” you can set the log level to something (like loglevel=3) and it will write the errors to the console on boot. The higher the number the more information is written to the console.

That was 2 hours-ish that could have been just 5 minutes if the system had actually told me it was having problems with connecting to a drive.

It did, it almost certainly wrote the error into the system log. That’s generally the first thing you should check if you’re having such low-level problems, like a failure to boot.

Going forward some good advice is: Get a USB stick, install Ventoy and put a system rescue image on it: https://www.system-rescue.org/

This way, if you’re ever having issues booting you can boot into a live environment and read the logs.

If you mount your system drive on /sysroot, you can read the system log with

journalctl --root=/sysroot

Add a -b flag to see just the log from the latest boot (and -b -1 from the previous, -b -2 from the one before, etc)

And, surprisingly, it wasn’t DNS

Yeah, probably a .bashrc difference between users.

It could also be ~/.inputrc (or /etc/inputrc if not in the user’s home directory.) https://man.archlinux.org/man/readline.3

That’s one small step for linux users, a giant leap for nerdkind

Putting yourself into the position of trying to solve a practical problem is the best way to learn.

If you fail completely, you can always restore your system and try again (you have a backup, right?)

Yeah, this project is built as a docker container. The repo has instructions on starting the container. You should watch a few introductory videos on Docker so you understand the concepts and basic usage.

Once it’s started, the machine that docker is running on will be serving a website that acts as the application. If you’re running docker on your desktop you can then open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8080/ and you will see something that looks like the demo link above.

This doesn’t expose it to the Internet. If you’re running this on a home LAN with a router between you and the ISP’s modem (or the ISP’s modem is a router/AP) then only computers connected to your network will be able to access it. You would have to go to your router’s administration console and specifically forward a port for that service so that people on the Internet could get past your modem.

Yeah, maybe tell the guy who suggested plugging the laptop into the TV INSTEAD OF USING A MEDIA PLAYER.

Oh goodness, you’re right.

Thank you for your valuable contribution to the Selfhosted community. We in the Selfhosted community always looking for like minded people who absolutely abhor technology, that’s why we’re here in the Selfhosted community. We here at the Selfhosted community are just aghast at all of the newcomers who are constantly trying to make use use “electronics” like some NERD who lives in their parents basement.

Thank you for sticking up for home decour, it is an important part of our lives which simply cannot simply be brushed aside because someone (probably a NERD) wants to use “technology”. Like I always say, this computer thing is just a passing fad which will never catch on while a stylish living room is forever.

This site is populated by the illiterate.

Yes, there certainly are a lot of clueless people who are unable to comprehend a statement.

Unless you’re watching your shows on Netflix, or other commercial streaming services, then you’re committing piracy too. ‘Streaming’ a show is just downloading it and them immediately deleting it.

Piracy is downloading/making a copy of a piece of media that you’re not licensed to copy. It doesn’t become less illegal because you delete it.

If you’re against piracy then you should not be streaming content that you haven’t paid for.

Well, make sure your interiour decoratour knows about media players which are about the size of a Visa Black card.