This is just something I worked on while quick reading the systemd arch wiki page, documentation from freedesktop and some stackoverflow posts explaining the basics.
I didn't use ai nor browse around the internet much and I'm no programmer but idk. It's cool to know I can still fix things up on my own. It's been a long while anyway.
I've been babied by Arch Linux so much there hasn't been anything to fix, which is good, but it does make me rusty haha.
In the end this is what the replacement unit file for spice-vdagentd.service on my MX Linux vm install look like.
It can "survive" boot from a shutdown, and reboots.
Some nerd could chime in to tell me how fucking shitty and stupid this is but yeah this is what works, for me at least.
*sigh* As expected, spice-vdagentd.service will not start even when enabled with the default unit file
Even with -x arg added on the ExecStart file (removed $SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS), it doesn't start. Hell, the service didn't even start in the first place for both cases lol so yeah. I'll stick with the solution that worked for me
I enabled & started spice-vdagentd.service with the new replacement unit file written, disabled spice-vdagentd.socket, ran spice-vdagent on the terminal once, and then rebooted to verify and then now it works lol.
I think I spent about an hour just troubleshootin and idk. It's prolly a shitty fix but it works for me and it's all that matters haha
So spice-vdagent for sum reason doesn't start on MX Linux even if it is enabled. I use systemd so I made a replacement unit file, commented out Requires= under [Unit], Type=forking under [Service], ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd $SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS, replaced that with just ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd, and then commented Also= under [Install] and added WantedBy=multi-user.target
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd#Replacement_unit_files
Seems like there's cursor rendering lag with spice-vdagent on Pop os. I tried installing regular Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on a vm, which I read pop os is based on and spice-vdagent was preinstalled, pre-enabled and worked just alright. Moving the cursor looked as smooth as the host
It's alright though. I'll try MX Linux to replace the ubuntu 25.10 vm im using.
How many times must I tell #microsoft no? I have said NO several times before and it is still NO!
After taxes are done I will upgrade this machine to #mxlinux
Non lo credevo possibile, ma un #raspberrypi5 con #mxlinux potrebbe tranquillamente sostituire un pc desktop soddisfando le esigenze del 90% dell'utenza comune!
Super felice dell'acquisto!
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I'm migrating my bare-metal #Nextcloud instance from a .io domain to a .org domain. That's going to involve running sed on a database dump and on multiple config and data files. First I'm backing up the entire root directory, so I can roll back if it all goes wrong.
To make my life easy, I've installed #MXLinux on an mSATA USB stick and configured that installation to mount a USB-attached RAID5 array. I can plug those into any arbitrary computer and work on it from a familiar, fully tooled up environment. Here I have it booted from my Nextcloud server. It's working well.
Starting yesterday, I went and did the hard part of switching out Ubuntu on that small partition of my 2TB SanDisk SN5100 with Linux Mint. I wanted a stable OS developed from the bottom up, unlike Canonical's top-down approach—the same thing that I think is causing Windows' downfall. I sort of regret not giving MX Linux enough a chance, but Mint lacks the long learning curve. I will largely use it for Wine testing and server stuff.
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