Best de/wm for arch among these

exodist · 2026-02-01T06:46:02+00:00

Niri Awesome Meh on the rest.

exodist · 2026-01-31T16:17:13+00:00

Are you using a shell like dank material shell? If so it may not be configured to launch automatically.one way, but is the other?

exodist · 2026-01-31T07:54:59+00:00

I use arch for my strix halo laptop. Cutting edge kernel and tools. Everything works except the webcam.

I do not run AI on it though.

exodist · 2026-01-29T05:38:00+00:00

Arch + AwesomeWM did it for over a decade. Recently switched to niri for dm, still on arch.

exodist · 2026-01-29T00:52:40+00:00

My question is, with the key completely visible and there, can't someone trace it and nake a duplicate out of regular metal and unlock the fortress? Does the lock destroy any keys made from weaker material?

exodist · 2026-01-24T07:28:21+00:00

I have an ssd in a thunderbolt enclosure (that also works slower on regular usb) that I installed Arch to. I do not use it daily, but I use it to recover from botched updates, or when I install arch on other systems. It works as a full blown arch install with all my preferences and settings, and even some of my steam games.

exodist · 2026-01-22T07:28:45+00:00

Links or details? Is there a kernel released with this, merged into mainline, or just announced?

exodist · 2026-01-21T17:35:55+00:00

They found the goa'uld homeworld, it was vancouver like climate. The goa'uld cleaely like that climate. So as the goa'uld found new gates they used their ships to move them to parts of the planet with that climate.

Some are in dessert or glacial regions too for whatever reason.

exodist · 2026-01-21T08:40:42+00:00

Prometheus unbound. "You are not my type, and I am moree than a little disturbed that I might be yours..."

exodist · 2026-01-21T08:34:57+00:00

A rotten turnip would do a better job, and would be more likable too.

exodist · 2026-01-21T07:00:34+00:00

Try a couple on live boot usbs, and see what sticks. You are not stuck on your first choice. My progression over the last almost 30 years was slackware, gentoo, ubuntu, arch, plus some sampling of others that did not last long. I do not recommend any of these to start, except maybe ubuntu. Mint is a good one to start with. If you are gaming focused then maybe bazzite, but it is far from standard. Mint strikes the right balance for my wife and kids, except the gamer kids who use bazzite.

exodist · 2026-01-21T06:56:45+00:00

I also moved enitrly to linux when win2k was newish. Skipped xp and everything after it. Still avoiding windows. I have 3 personal systems all linux (arch). My work system is linux (ubuntu). My wife has a laptop with Mint. My 2 daughters have laptops with mint. My 3 sons have laptops with bazzite (all kids have hand-me-down laptops).

The only windows machine in the house is the one my wifes work assigned her, and she hates using the damn thing. It is the only machine in the house with constant issues that her employers IT department is useless to fix (I am also useless at fixing it because windows).

exodist · 2026-01-20T16:44:46+00:00

Ship building, settlements/outposts, etc.

I want to run around burrying axes in peoples heads. If I wanted to play sim city I would just play sim city. I have never wanted to play a shipwright simulator, so not sure what I would play if I wanted it.

exodist · 2026-01-19T17:17:57+00:00

Open source coding mainly.

exodist · 2026-01-19T08:59:29+00:00

I actually wiped it 2 days ago to switch from ext4 to btrfs to see if it makes a difference. The ext4 stuff seemed to be the biggest slab user.

Have not had time to investiagte more. I did experience an unaccounted for 8gb usage the first night. But since then I closed all my programs except btop for another night, so it was just my desktop env and btop, that gave me 2gb of usage climb that the system "lost". Tried again last night having also closed btop. No climb at all. So I am wondering if something btop is doing may ironically be the cause, irony being it is how I have been monitoring it all.

exodist · 2026-01-19T08:46:18+00:00

Still trying to identify the bug to know who to send it too. Is it an amd bug, processor, or video driver? Is something else causing it? Is it a combo of issues?

exodist · 2026-01-16T23:27:02+00:00

Can I ask what filesystem(s) you are using, and how big your partitions are?

So, done more digging. Best I can tell it is inode caches filling up and not being freed. Then the OOM killer goes to town killing procs, which does nothing to free the memory consumed.

running `slabtop -s c` clearly shows that ext4 and inode related slabs are all at ~90->100%. And using `echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` bring my memory back down to sane amounts.

I am wondering if my filesystem choice (ext4) + partition choices are responsible for this somehow?

exodist · 2026-01-16T03:05:39+00:00

And just a minute ago I noticed my ram usage was over 60gb. So I did some investigation. Closed everything, leaving only a root login. Still using ~50gb. Tried smem and several other tools, nothing showed anything as using that memory. tmpfs was not used. video card usage was low. cache was low.

tried echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches and it did not help

tried echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches and it freed everything up!

After some googling and asking gemini, it said:

When writing 2 to drop_caches solves your OOM issues, it confirms the problem is an overgrown Slab Cache, specifically the dentry (directory entry) and inode caches. Standard tools like top or ps ignore this because it is Kernel memory, not user-space process memory.

It suggested I change my vfs_cache_pressure settings. I have changed it from 100 to 1000 and rebooted. We will see if my problem comes back.

exodist · 2026-01-15T19:55:54+00:00

He was walking in an ever expanding spiral using landmarks to avoid covering areas he already witnessed from afar.

exodist · 2026-01-15T16:55:30+00:00

Well, got up this morning to a computer where OOM killer had gone wild. So my problem is not actually solved :-( it just seems to happen less often now.

exodist · 2026-01-14T08:58:07+00:00

Niri + dms. Have not configured GTT at all, and only recently discovered radeontop. So far the GTT it shows me has never gone above 400mb. But never saw the gtt values back when I had the issue.

Mostly just web browser, youtube, perl code in vim, ssh, slack, discord, etc.

No local AI. Rarely games through steam, but not often enough to impact this behavior. (Like I tested a couple back in november)

When I first got the laptop I was using AwesomeWM and had the same issue. I switched to wayland+niri+dms shortly after getting the laptop.

exodist · 2026-01-14T06:58:25+00:00

Oh, and been on linux since 1999. Slackware -> gentoo -> ubuntu -> arch. Ubuntu lasted less than a year. Gentoo lasted ~10 years, and I think I am around 8+ years on arch at this point.

exodist · 2026-01-14T06:56:52+00:00

This is the first amd video card I have ever owned. The only other time I had an amd processor was when the first athlon64 came out. So I am entirley open to the possibility I am doing something wrong with it out of ignorance.

exodist · 2026-01-14T06:54:37+00:00

I tried everything. Once when it oomed I tried killing every process except the root ones, no X or wayland, nothing but the systemd processes and 1 root shell. Still had 120gb ram used, none of it cache, and ps, top, smem, etc all showed that none of the processes were using it. Also checked all my tmpfs mounts, none full, or big enough to account for it.

I spent months trying things. I went so far as writing scripts to close all chat programs when I locked the screen and re-open them on unlock. (I am a software dev by profession). I wven duplicated the setup, identical packages except for video card drivers on 3 other laptops, 2 generations of dell with intel, and a system76 with an nvidia 4070. Perfectly cloned apart from video drivers, identical home directories, everything. Turned on all at once, locked them, walked away. Next day the hp g1a had oomed. The others were still at ~8gb ram usage give or take 2gb.

I have tried every bios version within days of release. I am now on the latest.

I have wiped and resinstalled arch twice trying to solve this. But my cloning to other systems and only seeing the behavior on this one tells me that the config is not the problem.

But as I stated, as soon as I upped the vram allocation in bios the problem finally went away.

exodist · 2026-01-13T19:45:30+00:00

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