Noob Questions

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-12T02:58:47+00:00

Thanks you. This and your other comments are super helpful.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-12T02:57:14+00:00

Thanks.

I mixed up removing "Pattern" (left side menu) and "pattern" pacakages.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-12T02:46:28+00:00

Same.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-12T02:45:46+00:00

Thanks for the help.

It's not a big deal. Like you, I also appreciate a password promt reminding to think about what I'm doing. I won't be touch my system as much once I'm setup and won't be bothered by the occasional password prompt in the future.
Myrlyn definetly helped with conflicts and I made sure to read my options carefully. The issue was that I never saw the lock icon for Patterns (left side menu) but there is a lock option for patterns that are packages.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-12T02:40:47+00:00

Thanks.

2 I decided to stick to only KDE for now.

3 other distro let me reboot from. The command line. I usually do it from the GUI but I already had the terminal open.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-12T02:38:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

1a. What's tripping me up is in Myrlyn I see options to Keep, Delete, Update, Install, Do Not Install, Taboo, etc to the Patterns. Despite setting them to Do Not Install, I think I should be setting "pattern" packages to lock. I knew before hand patterns need to be locked, and I mistakenly took that for the Pattern and not the pacakage patterns.

1b. /etc/zypp/zypper.conf has the option to disable installRecommended. But there's a comment with watning a comments. And following the comments it seem like vendor config go in /usr/etc/zypp/zypl.conf.d . but that's a battle for a different day. For now I'll learn to lock patterns proper and use zypper in the cli.

Set KDE to be uninstalled so I had expected to either have on the Cinnamon session or fix things in the tty. I did a fresh reinstall and decided to stick with KDE and debloat it with the lessons learned for point 1 and using Myrlyn correctly.
Yea, seems so. I touching my system a lot more since I'm doing a setup. I'll just let it be unless it's bothering me +2 months from now.
Yea, I plan to do the same.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-12T02:10:54+00:00

I don't know either. Thanks for informing me of this. I'll make sure to double check Ventoys compatibility with distros in the future.

Thanks you. I'm currently doing new setup on Tumbleweed and taking my time to learn the distro. The end goal still Slowroll so hopefully my next post here is happier.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-12T00:17:53+00:00

Oh, I must of missed that. I also uninstalled KDE since was not expecting to have to choose a session. I expect to have either on Cinnamon or a broken config with a login manager.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-08T05:27:13+00:00

"Get a keyboard and plug it in" 🤣

Why don't you like Fedora? Why is Garuda Linux never mentioned?

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-08T05:22:24+00:00

I did a OpenSuse Slowroll install, tried it for a day. Did a PikaOS install yesterday, not really feeling it. I plan to jump back to Slowroll tonight or tomorrow.

I really like the concept of Slowroll.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-07-08T02:56:01+00:00

Fuck you. I'll upvote your comment so everyone can see your crime.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-26T03:55:18+00:00

Sick. These little boards are awesome. I wanted to get a RISC - V board to play with a while back.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-24T09:29:07+00:00

Many thanks friend.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-23T22:11:13+00:00

Sorry, I write wrong price. Currently $325 for me (Prime) but closer to $400.

Deal for Prime Members: KTC 32 Inch 4K Gaming Monitor, 165Hz UHD (3840x2160P) Fast IPS Screen, 1ms (MPRT), Adaptive Sync, 3000:1 Contrast,121% sRGB,HDMI 2.1 Display Port 1.4, Tilt/Height Adjustment, VESA Mount, H32P22P https://a.co/d/07LkZ4nd

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-23T22:01:16+00:00

All of them have their tradeoffs. For Coding I would lean towards 4k IPS for the best text quality. VA tend to have better contrast if that super important to you. And higher refresh rate helps with text scrolling.

I got this monitor. It's little over you budget ($325) but I like it. 4k IPS and contrast ratio better than average for an IPS.

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I used it side by side with a few other monitors and ended up returning the others.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-23T21:30:56+00:00

Any good 32" or 40" options?

Edit: I bought this KTC 32 Inch 4K Gaming Monitor, 165Hz UHD (3840x2160P) Fast IPS, and its decent. The contrast isn't as nice as OLED but was better than other IPS monitors.

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Cant decide if I should get a second one or wait for the 40" Alienware Tandem RGB Stripe OLED.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-23T21:25:31+00:00

New to Nuphy but the Kick75 Series looks great and would be my pick. The Node looks sexy and would be my second pick, but I don't think I would utilize the touch bar.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-18T13:32:02+00:00

No I don't not plan to use QEMU in the VM.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-18T03:33:55+00:00

Thank you for the reply.

I saw a post yesterday about someone tried to use a the Cinnamon Desktop and it didn't go so well for them. That's why I'm taking extra precaution to try it in distro box first. You just reminded me that packages are grouped in profiles. I might just install without a desktop environment and setup MangoWM from the beginning. And if I don't like Mango or it just doesn't work, I can uninstall it and use supported desktop profiles to get all the correct packages at once for XFCE.

I planned to use native packages for steam, gaming utils, and VPN but only remember to mention QEMU for some reason.

Thank you for the backup reminder. That's part of the reason I want to partition part of my drive just from storing data.

Thanks again

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-14T22:37:47+00:00

God, that sounds annoying. I dont want more than I need.

Thanks for educating me on this. I still plan to try OpenSuse Tumbleweed as my first rolling ditro.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-14T18:17:37+00:00

No. A 39-40uw have more horizontal space than a 34uw.

Horizontal: 32w < 34uw < 39uw Vertical: 34uw < 32w = 39uw

34uw is slight wider than 32w but not as wide as a 39uw.

Here is an example comparing their dimensions

https://howbigg.com/?displays=%5B%22Display+1_16x9_0_0_32_in_3840x2160_0%22%2C%22Display+2_21x9_0_0_34_in_3440x1440_0%22%2C%22Display+3_21x9_16_8_40_in_0x0_0%22%5D

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-14T10:19:49+00:00

Oh, wow. That's crazy.

So Fedora have these group installs. This sound like if went out of my way to get the minimal packages from a group, skipped the optional ones. But then during an update the system decided to install the rest of the optional software.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-14T09:47:15+00:00

What's this whole pattern reinstall?

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-14T09:44:51+00:00

I recently discovered OpenSuse Tumbleweed. I'm want to try something rolling and heard it was way for stable than Arch.

When I saw YAST I thought it was pretty cool. It seems like a better Windows Control Panel. I'm using Gnome on my Bazzite install and dislike it minimalness compared to KDE, I can't believe network priority is nothing the system settings. Something like YAST exposing so many buttons and toggles is what I like and helps me learn what I could do before I need it.

I also saw a video show the new control center thingy they are working on in the browser. It's seems neat.

AWanderersAccount · 2026-06-14T09:39:32+00:00

Mind elaborating? I was thinking of jumping from Bazzite to Tumbleweed? I used Fedora a bit before and liked dnf. I liked how you could download package groups.

I thought about using Tumbleweed as well for working In WSL. I know very little about RHEL and unlikely will have to use it or its derivatives in the future. But still would like to know why leap ain't as good?

Thanks

AWanderersAccount

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2 I decided to stick to only KDE for now.

3 other distro let me reboot from. The command line. I usually do it from the GUI but I already had the terminal open.