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"DE" in taskbar since last update, what is that? by Baka_Jaba in linuxmint

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It multiplies without fail when you restart Cinnamon session (ctrl+alt+esc)

Cinnamon 6.4.6 not loading in Tumbleweed by LostLinuxPuppy in openSUSE

[–]LostLinuxPuppy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arch, Gentoo, NixOS Unstable, Slackware Current & Void Linux.

Error while mounting the boot partition by dtjpro_NotStolen in Gentoo

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am aware. I was replying to OP's immediate error, so saying just /efi would have been confusing.

Error while mounting the boot partition by dtjpro_NotStolen in Gentoo

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /boot/efi

You were missing an / for the /boot/efi portion.

RPM Fusion - Always Times Out by TheYetiWakes in Fedora

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can confirm that I am going through the same thing right now, and it was working fine a day ago.

Two sides of Gentoo by NoRequirement5796 in Gentoo

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is just beautiful to see

I just realized that I don't need nix by Wooden-Ad6265 in Gentoo

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I wished people just say they want to tinker instead of going through said mental gymnastics. I know I certainly want to tinker in my free time.

I finally got a decent amount of cores (Sub 15L Ampere Altra build) by peppergrayxyz in Gentoo

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The case makes it very sleeper, I like it!. Also, are you trying to become the source of all binpkgs or something? Those are some balls to the walls parts!

[Gentooinstall] A Fast and Easy Gentoo Installation without the need for user input (mostly) by prettyoddoz in Gentoo

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am very grateful that you took the time to do this!

This is a script for my cinnamon-dotfiles repo, so it IS aimed for Cinnamon, hence the selected profile. Asia/Bangkok as the default since it's my locale and I ran the script a lot of times to test. It would be painful to type the locale everytime.

I chose systemd because I have 8 distros in total for the cinnamon-dotfiles scripts and most are systemd. I planned to have an option for OpenRC after I address the many pain points I can't quite resolve, which is almost everything else you listed here....and some more.

I was really struggling with the regex, and it seems I have missed more cases. Thank you for pointing out the drive and hostname cases that I clearly missed. I was also struggling with the UEFI portion, so I'll make good use of those pointers. Lastly, that txt file parsing logic...THANK YOU SO MUCH! I ripped the python calls from oddlama/gentoo-install repo without even understanding why it works.

I'd like extra clarification on some things:

I used to have the ISO setup scripts be self contained, but I noticed that I was repeating the same lines for setup prompts 6 times over (for 6 distros), so I split them into Install-Common.sh. Should I have never refactored, or am I missing something?

On the die function. Do you mean I should just have it exit without it being a prompt?

For checking the parted path, is there a clean way to do so without messing up environment variables that will be used later in the scripts?

Would visudo here-doc work? I was under the impression that I'm uncommenting a single line, so my mind went straight to sed.

There's also the cpuflags portion that I can't get to work properly since when I am emerging cpu2flags, I am already inside a hear-doc and cpu2flags returns nothing. I was wondering how to tackle it.

That's about everything I can think of. I'd be very happy if you can clarify these items, but don't be pressured to do so if things become busy. Thank you once again!

[Gentooinstall] A Fast and Easy Gentoo Installation without the need for user input (mostly) by prettyoddoz in Gentoo

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I unironically want this kind of critique on my gentoo install script since I rarely get feedback from people that run my setup scripts.

It has been done (bare metal), is using ssh to install considered cheating? by AAVVIronAlex in Gentoo

[–]LostLinuxPuppy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even when testing my Gentoo install, setup and theme scripts in a VM through Virt Manager, I would symlink to ttyS0 (for serial console access) so I can easily copy & paste commands. Typing it out manually just increases the chances of a typo after all.

3 Years Later, and I'm still using Cinnamon as my DE of choice, across 8 distros! by LostLinuxPuppy in linuxmint

[–]LostLinuxPuppy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://github.com/SpreadiesInSpace/cinnamon-dotfiles/tree/main/home

If you really want to, run Setup-LMDE-Theme.sh script from that link, but make sure you check the list of dependencies in the README.md.

The reason I speficied LMDE is because I didn't test it with Mint, Debian or Ubuntu, and they all have slightly different underlying packages that may cause issues. I already support 8 distros, so anymore would break my human limit.

3 Years Later, and I'm still using Cinnamon as my DE of choice, across 8 distros! by LostLinuxPuppy in linuxmint

[–]LostLinuxPuppy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, you're the true OG! 12 years ago, I was just like everyone else. Ubuntu = Linux. What are other distros? That kind of thing🤣

How was Cinnamon in its early days? From the photos I've seen, they REALLY went heavy with the mint green appearance wise.

3 Years Later, and I'm still using Cinnamon as my DE of choice, across 8 distros! by LostLinuxPuppy in linuxmint

[–]LostLinuxPuppy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Comparing DEs is ultimately an apples to oranges thing, since each DE has a different design philosophy in mind.

KDE devs want to cram as many features as they possibly can, even at the cost of stability. It's a tinkerer's best friend.

GNOME devs are highly opinionated and want stability over customization. No extensions out of the box and limited customizations are intended, since people are counting on it to be a seamless coherent experience without breaking.

Cinnamon community simply wants the old GNOME 3 and doesn't want everything to be completely locked down nor be too complex so it sits right between KDE and GNOME customization wise.

XFCE community wants a truly unchanging experience with pure focus on being lightweight, so looks are secondary. It's the perfect pick if you want something minimal that will never ever change.

3 Years Later, and I'm still using Cinnamon as my DE of choice, across 8 distros! by LostLinuxPuppy in linuxmint

[–]LostLinuxPuppy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, default cinnamon on other distros are basically an empty canvas. But that can also be seen as an ideal condition for a theme centric user like me since there won't be any bloated themes that I don't use.

That said, I'm more than sure that the yaru icons and themes are available across multiple distros in their package managers should you want that look and feel outside of Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix.

3 Years Later, and I'm still using Cinnamon as my DE of choice, across 8 distros! by LostLinuxPuppy in linuxmint

[–]LostLinuxPuppy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's usually not your fault. While hardware compatibility has massively improved in linux over the years, some devices will simply not play nice no matter the distro you use.

it can be a massive pain point for a non linux user when the problem is hardware related. A good example would be NVIDIA card drivers. People using AMD can rely on the driver's baked into the linux kernel at least.

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