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R.L. Dane

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May 12

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:~$

tkopp May 8

DistroWatch Linux-Rankings werden falsch verstanden
https://torbenkopp.com/distrowatch-linux-rankings-werden-falsch-verstanden/
#linux #distro #distrowatch

DistroWatch Linux-Rankings werden falsch verstanden

Das Page-Hit-Ranking von DistroWatch wird oft als Beweis dafür angeführt, dass eine Distribution beliebt ist. Das ist jedoch nicht der Fall.

Torben Kopp

@tuxjam @kevie @solusspider

Just FYI, I've now updated the script (as of yesterday) to use the longer (~474 items) list from @distrowatch, rather than just the top 100 ;)

#DistroWatch

Lightwhale May 3

Hi, we've got a favour to ask. If you like Lightwhale then please take a second to recommend it at DistroWatch and help us getting added to the database:

distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.p…

#lightwhale #linux #selfhosting #docker #distrowatch

dei Muddr Apr 27

Kann ich bestätigen, was kürzlich bei #distrowatch ("poor experience") berichtet wurde. Versuchte #d77void #mangowm edition zu installieren, aber der calamares Installer stieg mit Fehlermeldung aus.

#wayland #windowtiling #voidlinux

R.L. Dane

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Apr 24

A wee gift for my friends at @tuxjam :

[dwroulette]: a web scraper (written in #POSIX #shell) for #DistroWatch that gives you one of the top 100 #Linux distros completely at random. 😅

#TuxJam @kevie @solusspider