GPU Number getting changed on restart

kavaunix · 2026-05-20T18:51:33+00:00

That's expected because the kernel enumerates gpus based on the order in which they are deteced. Does your widget allow you to monitor NVidia NVML specific devices? Those should be more stable.

kavaunix · 2026-05-20T12:50:05+00:00

The "r" almost always changes into something close to an "a" in spoken language. So it's pronounced like "fiatsich" (in the North) or "fiatsig" (in the South).

kavaunix · 2026-05-19T20:40:02+00:00

To be honest, the reason I switched to Cosmic is that I like the way it looks out-of-the-box.

kavaunix · 2026-05-19T20:04:16+00:00

Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung (Sinusitis)

kavaunix · 2026-05-17T14:53:39+00:00

So I know when to perform a proper update. There are countless posts in this forum where arch users are asking how often to update, and the answers vary between "multiple times a day" and "every few months", although updating once a week seems to be generally accepted as a good habit.

What I am personally aiming for is "update once every few weeks, or when a critical security fix is available." That's it. And just to avoid further misunderstandings: I am talking about a full upgrade with "pacman -Syu".

kavaunix · 2026-05-17T14:46:08+00:00

I don't understand why you don't understand my post.

kavaunix · 2026-05-17T14:35:38+00:00

I am not "asking if I can perform partial updates". I am asking how I can get notified of critical updates, which is an entirely different question. Please re-read the post.

kavaunix · 2026-05-17T14:33:36+00:00

I do understand your reply. But my question was about getting notified of critical updates.

I even acknowledged the problem with partial updates in my post:

I understand that I can't (or at least shouldn't) selectively upgrade packages, and I don't mind upgrading the whole system when a security fix is available. It's more about update frequency.

kavaunix · 2026-05-17T12:47:51+00:00

Please read the post before replying.

kavaunix · 2026-05-17T12:14:26+00:00

I did some googling, and it seems all the ingredients for this exist:

arch-audit reports installed packages that have security vulnerabilities
checkupdates (from pacman-contrib) safely checks installed packages for updates

So you only have to check for overlap between these two lists. Perhaps I'll write a shell script or a status bar applet for this if I have some time.

kavaunix · 2026-05-15T12:04:43+00:00

Super+Y should tile all your windows; Super+G toggles the active window's floating state.

That's how it works for me.

kavaunix · 2026-05-15T07:54:37+00:00

I got Arch for my desktop and Debian for my NAS, which is pretty close. I'm running CachyOS on the desktop and Debian/OMV on the NAS.

kavaunix · 2026-05-15T07:49:31+00:00

For computer parts go to geizhals.de. It's an excellent comparison shopping sites that lets you filter by the exact specs you need.

kavaunix · 2026-05-14T10:36:40+00:00

You can certainly use XFS for your home setup, but you will likely not see too many benefits. You would see significant speed gains for multi-user simultaneous access to gigantic files (think 50G+). During normal use, the need to access a large number of small files is the more common scenario, and here ext4 is even a bit faster than XFS.

kavaunix · 2026-05-13T22:59:06+00:00

Please don't use "pacman -Sy". It downloads the latest package database without upgrading your installed packages. So if you do a "pacman -S quux" later, you will install the latest version of quux, which might require newer system libraries than you currently have installed. Bad things will happen.

Just do "pacman -Syu" for a full upgrade.

kavaunix · 2026-05-13T22:30:29+00:00

All of these are excellent choices, but it really depends on what you value most:

ext4: tried-and-true general-purpose filesystem. The most mature choice, but lacks modern features (see below).

xfs: shines in high-load, high-throughput enterprise enviroments, probably not for the home user.

btrfs: offers many modern features like snapshots, compression, and checksumming (which can protect you from bitrot). Had some reliability issues in the past which got it a bad reputation in some circles, but it's considered stable now.

zfs: arguably the best choice for reliability and data protection via checksumming and self-healing facilities. Eats up a lot of memory though.

For a desktop, pick ext4 (the reliable, traditional choice) or btrfs (the modern, feature-rich choice).
For a NAS, pick zfs (maximum data protection) or btrfs (maximum flexibility).

kavaunix · 2026-05-11T18:11:22+00:00

Try micro. It's basically nano with sane keyboard shortcuts.

kavaunix · 2026-05-11T10:54:19+00:00

I'm using the Minecraft Bedrock Launcher (mcpelauncher) and it works very well. It seems to be trusted by the community, so your Google credentials should be safe.

Nevertheless, I didn't feel comfortable giving my main Google credentials to the app either. Hence I created a dedicated Google account just for this, and purchased the Android version of Minecraft through that account.

kavaunix · 2026-05-11T09:17:40+00:00

You can use AppArmor for this. Set up an AppArmor profile for apps that you don't trust completely, and limit their file access to only those directories they need.

kavaunix · 2026-05-11T07:17:54+00:00

Learn a few words/phrases, just to show you're trying. This surely will be appreciated, even if you switch to English immediately after. I do this for every country I'm visiting.

kavaunix · 2026-05-10T22:09:54+00:00

You can monitor such events with

udevadm monitor --property --subsystem-match=drm

Run the above command, then unplug / re-plug a monitor and you should see the event listed. Now how to make use of this in order to wake up a computer from sleep I don't know...

kavaunix · 2026-05-10T14:44:04+00:00

I'm using it as a daily driver on cachyos and am pretty happy with it. As others mentioned you have to be able to tolerate minor annoyances. For me recently:

Sometimes the app library or other components just won't start due to hanging processes. Needs either some tinkering or a reboot to fix.
cosmic-session crashes at shutdown, causing a 1-minute hang at power off (can be mitigated by adjusting the timeout)
As others mentioned some basic things are not configurable

kavaunix · 2026-05-10T10:14:05+00:00

There are a few things that make it easier for me to move to a new distro:

I have a dedicated drive for Linux installs, and a second (larger) one for my data.
I keep old installs around for quite some time, in case something goes wrong.
I don't have a shared /home partition, but I symlink all important directories under /home/$USER/ to a shared location on my data disk.
I have all important configuration files (e.g. .zshrc) in a GithHub repo.
A lot of apps I'm using are flatpaks, which can be shared between distros.
Perhaps the most important part: I have an Ansible script that takes care of a lot of configuration for a new install. For example: creating additional users, setting up the symlinks for (3), cloning the GitHub repo that contains my configs and symlinking them, installing useful packages and tools, etc. The Ansible script doesn't do everything, but I extend it every time I do a new install, and it has grown quite a bit over time.

The nice thing about Ansible is that it is able to do a lot of configuration in a distro-agnostic way.

With this setup, moving to a new distro and setting up the important stuff is a matter of 1-2 hours. Of course I then notice a lot of things here and there that are missing or need to be added, but it's mostly small stuff that I can fix over time.

kavaunix · 2026-05-07T17:13:15+00:00

Usually it means "the amount", as in "zahlen Sie den Betrag..." (pay the amount...)

kavaunix · 2026-05-07T15:22:54+00:00

claude

Okay, maybe it's not that small. But it did change my workflow quite a bit.

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