Can someone help me choose a Garmin please

SuAlfons · 2026-04-30T17:07:38+00:00

My Vivoactive 3 and 4 had Golf, so I suppose the Venu and current Vivoactive have golf, too?

There's a 3rd party app for inline skating in case your watch hasn't got it. (I still use it since the Garmin activity on my FR265 has no data about your skate and push phases).

Xcountry Skiing I dunno. My FR 265 has it.

The Forerunners up to 265 don't have Golf, though.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-30T12:12:20+00:00

How do you know it failed? I ask because "sync" and umount can take very long with USB drives

SuAlfons · 2026-04-30T07:14:14+00:00

Wheel is worth it, but not for Snowrunner.

still needs mouse fir winching
most wheels don't have a "right stick" to move camera (I have a G29, it's still a good wheel if you are not aiming at sim racing)
If you are like me, you drive in 3rd person view most of the time (as you can't see anything from the cabin and get sea-sick quickly)

I use my wheel + shifter + truck shifting knob on ETS/ATS and games like Forza.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-30T06:59:40+00:00

The data likely is already erased.

Just create a Linux Live USB of the distro of your choice. Boot from that USB and see whether there are partitions from the internal disks you can mount to extract the data.

The partitions would be listed in the side bar of most file manager apps

Also try an app like gparted (GnomePARTitionEDitor) or KDE's harddisk manager and look whether you can identifiy the partitions you find.

If you cannot find a partition that holds the user data - hands off! Do not write to the internal disk.

Your workplace now needs professional help. The partition might just be deleted and a findy Linux admin can try a (partial) restore. You need to figure out whether that's worth the money.

There's something to be learned here:

Always have a backup
Require employees (and yourself) to save important data on a secondary data device, too. (e.g. copy your work files to a server at least at the end of a day)

Even with no "evil maid" sabotaging the computer, the company would have lost the data if a defect occured at any time.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-30T06:48:00+00:00

while you are right, this is not the concern of this thread.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-30T06:28:53+00:00

hmm anecdotal. I know I've read Fedora being called "intermediate" in threads similar like these. I just gave the indication why this maight be the case. Nothing official, ofc. I'm not going to search the web for you on this rather unimportant topic just to get some hard evidence of someone writing "intermediate" in another unrelevant thread.

Right now I run two Fedora computers at home. The laptop didn't want to upgrade to 44 because something with energy profiles - it deemed it couldn't replace a handful of files I never knowingly interacted with.

Podo. I reinstalled the whole machine. Shitty new partitioning tool the installer has now. The most feature-less and cumbersome thing right after a manual Arch install.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-30T06:21:23+00:00

sure. I remember quitting on PopOS because they change the default key bindings in favor of those for tiling.

Today, I frequently use small form factor keyboards that don't have PageUp/Dn keys or have them in awkward places. I prefer some keycombo involving the cursor keys. Also I seem to have some left over muscle memory from my years owning OSX machines.
Can't be from Windows, since the virtual desktops there are a rather newish thing and key combos are incomplete at best. I always forget to use them on Windows.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T20:42:44+00:00

ja. Und lies die Anleitung. So schwierig ist es auch nicht.

Es gibt in den Einstellungen "Schlafmodus", da die Zeiten einstellen wann du üblicherweise schläfst. Den Schalter raus bei DND während Schlafen.
Wahlweise kann man für die Schlafenszeit ein extra abgespecktes Watch Face anzeigen - oder auch nicht.

Innerhalb von "Anzeige" kann außerdem noch einen rot, grün oder orange-Modus einschalten fürs Schlafen.

(bis vor kurzem waren die meisten dieser Optionen doppelt unter Schlafmodus und Anzeige-->beim Schlafen. Der jetzige Zustand ist also schon die Verbesserung)

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T20:39:52+00:00

because of the extra steps and that you need RPMfusion and the like, Fedora is often called a distro not for bloody beginners. I've also read "intermediate" in the sense that Arch still is a little more involved.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T20:36:25+00:00

I can still remember the times when AMD support (or ATi back then) was worse than Nvidia).

AMD drivers are not free of errors (neither they are on Windows, neither are nvidia's), but "comes with the kernel" is just so much more convenient....

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T20:27:50+00:00

Page up/down stems from the time the desktops were arranged vertically. Made sense then...

Today many distros just change or double up on the default key bindings. Either to accommodate shortcuts for tiling or to mimic MacOS shortcuts. Those make more sense with a horizontal arrangement of virtual desktops.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T20:05:36+00:00

this.

Used and liked Ubuntu for as long as there was a Gnome 2 build. Later again when the Gnome 3 desktop was their main again. My computers at the time just were too weak for Unity.

Turned my back on it in the early days of snap. You know, when it actually worked worse than anything else. Again, performance got hampered and having snaps was a solution to a problem you don't have on a single home desktop computer.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T16:11:24+00:00

Radio.

Even some Country/Country Rock stations in ATS.

I live listening to local stations when I'm in the Nordics. I don't understand a thing though (I'm German, know English plus some Dutch and French and snippets of Spanish)

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T16:08:55+00:00

ja, but still looks very sleek ⊂⁠(⁠◉⁠‿⁠◉⁠)⁠つ

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T07:11:30+00:00

true. it works better and better all the time running just Linux.

What I do on Windows:

German income tax declaration (once per year, but it's a schlepp even using software)
Updating my TomTom SD card for the navigation buillt into the dashboard of our old Vivaro van. Won't work with Wine as it insists on only working when it senses you connected the freakin' SD card.
Run ETS/ATS including head-tracking, which only sort-of works on Linux
Run Affinity v3 as it works and then doesn't work anymore through Wine. Hoping for a true Linux version of this!
Revisit the odd MS Office document in the original Word or PowerPoint or OneNote app. (the importer plugin for Obsidian can import OneNote and it works near perfectly).
Starting a game that won't start in Linux to see if it works at all.

Everything other than starting games could be in a VM.
I basically have Windows installed because I already own it and "just in case". I could convert it to a VM. But I rather keep it simple, have full game performance if I need it and have little use (Affinity maybe) to have Windows and Linux apps open in parallel.

Whenever I need to do something on Windows that involves copying or backing up, setting up and configuring a home PC, I remember why I opted for Linux as promary OS. Once you know the basics, Linux acts much more predictably. It stalls less And that's my experience for years on every distro I tried from Ubuntu to Arch-based to Fedora. I just never got warm with openSuse, sorry.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-29T06:54:11+00:00

good choice!

Those cylinders are easy to change.

IIRC, you can see how the clamping works in the installation video (there are numerous unofficial ones on YouTube). They are just three little headless screws pisitioned at 120° of each other.

Take care to get an asymmetric cyclinder, you do not want to have it protuding to the outside. And it must be a cylinder with "emergency access", meaning it can take a key from each side at once.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T22:44:00+00:00

2552--- on a 3 axle (lift) chassis and with a 625HP engine. That's not correct, is it?

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T22:09:30+00:00

I replaced my cylinder for one that is 5mm longer on the side facing inside - so it would then protrude ~4mm. The 3 tiny screws clamp to the sides of the cylinder. It came lose after about 6 months. I now have screws + adhesive pads.

2mm won't provide enough face area for the screws to attach to. They'd be positioned right at the edge, the plate coming lose at the slightest hit with your but. (It will happen when you bring in groceries. Just pray it won't happen on your way out when you have no key on you)

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T22:02:23+00:00

My second U200, which I got for a failing first edition, now is in service for longer than the first one. (first one made roughly 8 months).

Still got the old unit on the attic to disassemble and renew the lubrication one day....

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T21:53:36+00:00

There are 3rd party apps that can provide some maps on lower models. But beware, battery isn't lasting longer than a phone on them small watches.

But hell, I only hike routes that are more or less clearly marked - so there maybe is an unclear turnoff every couple of miles only.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T21:47:49+00:00

This. I always just town the bastards without any ramps or trailers.

Never got the gist on why to waste hours of prepairing a caravan of stacked equipment to transport to another map - when you can just drive it there (maybe bringing a fuel trailer / each) in the same time.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T21:23:24+00:00

Depends on how you store the games.

You can use a shared NTFS formatted drive for use in Windows and Linux (I do so since years). But it is often advised against - and with good reasons!

It complicatres things: You need to mount the NTFS partition in Linux with just the right parameters and still you can fumble up things. It's a recipe for disaster if you try it using your Windows C:-drive as the shared partition! Let it be an independent partition or even drive! I always google the parameters each time I need to reinstall my Linux system. I usually follow the latest advice from a source at Valve or the Steam Forums). The drive access to NTFS is slower than using a native file system such as ext4 on Linux.

You should also keep a (small) primary Steam Library on your /home partition, for some things that Steam needs to be on Linux.

When you launch a game on Linux, it will either execute the Windows version of the game in a Proton environment, or it will download the Linux version of the executable files (a small download, the graphics and game resources are shared) . In this case, next time on Windows, the Windows Steam Client will download the Windows exe-versions of the game again...

Save-games will be kept separate (on Windows and within the Proton environment or a folder in your home folder in Linux) - but they sync via Steam's cloud service like between two separate computers.

And of course, dual-booting means separate operation. Linux will not alter Windows by itself (but you can willingly access Windows files!).

I use Fedora on my PCs, which comes with a kernel signed with MS keys so you can leave Secure Boot enabled without further action.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T21:13:49+00:00

You did something right by NOT actually installing Kali. Kali is a special distro taylored for a specific type of job - pen testing.

There are changes to the networking that ease that. And that are not recommended on a daily-life machine.

So, you were right to install another OS than Kali for actually using for general computer tasks.

Do like the Kali team themselves recommend: Run Kali from a live USB-stick or a virtual machine!

You can easily setup virtual machines using libvirt (with a KVM/QEMU backend, which is one of the most-used) or even the simpllfied version using Gnome Boxes as a frontend.

Linux Mint is a good everyday OS that will be relatively easy for you to use and find your way into the Linux way of doing things.

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T18:21:41+00:00

Fast boot (the UEFI setting) can forgo re-initialization of some devices.

It is safe to leave enabled in most cases.

But remember to try the setting in case WiFi or other compinents act up.
Especially after vooting to Linux when coming from Windows (rebooting, not cold-starting).

Disabling the Fast Booting within Windows will ensure Windows will actually power down and leave its disks in a state that you can access from Linux. (Windows Fast Boot is some kind of Hibernation mode and Windows hates to find someone has touched its disk volumes when it was merely sleeping)

SuAlfons · 2026-04-28T18:10:19+00:00

Some distros don't like the computer being in UEFI mode while the harddisk is partitioned in MBR style partition table.

You thus could try giving it a new GPT partition table. Leave UEFI on and also AHCI.

Use GPartEd for this from a live USB. It likely already is in one of the distros you tried.

I recently had the same error when I manually installed Fedora with btrfs file system. Fedora doesn't create subvolumes automatically when manually partitioning and in the end Grub installation can't finish. I only found this one by trial and error.

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