R.L. Dane 🍵 (@[email protected])

More thoughts on #CachyOS... - btrfs has some noticeable hesitancy at times, even on a fairly fast (8th gen i5) machine - if you're (understandably) avoiding the AUR, the proper pacman archives feel a bit slim at times: rld@prometheus:~$ pacman -Ss |grep "^[^ ]" |cut -f1 -d' ' |cut -f2 -d/ |sort -u |wc -l 16057 -- compare with #Debian (actually RasPiOS, in this case) -- $ for x in {a..z}; do apt-cache search $x; done |cut -f1 -d' ' |sort -u |wc -l 74416 (Not sure if that's accurate, but #DistroWatch says Debian has over 50,000, and Wikipedia says almost 70,000) - I've had to come up with a couple bespoke "daemons," one to refresh the xrdb every 10 seconds (NO idea why xrdb forgets everything so often on this box), and one to refresh the keyboard brightness (I use symlinks in my home directory for this) every two seconds, so that it retains the setting after resuming from sleep. UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD rld 8035 1 0 May11 ? 00:00:00 sh -c while xrdb < ~/.Xdefaults; do sleep 10; done rld 25572 1 0 04:19 ? 00:00:01 sh -c while grep -om1 [0-9] .kbd_backlight |tr -dc 0-9 > ~/.kbd_backlight-sys; do sleep 2; done rld@prometheus:~$ file .kbd* .kbd_backlight: ASCII text .kbd_backlight-sys: symbolic link to /sys/class/leds/tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness rld@prometheus:~$ grep . .kbd* .kbd_backlight:2 .kbd_backlight-sys:2 rld@prometheus:~$