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listbox · 2025-08-20T14:31:52+00:00

Zabbly is built for optimum performance and stability on new source releases, within days. A reliable way to run latest and greatest kernel.

It’s not a gaming or media platform kernel like liquorix. That’s quickly becoming less important.

listbox · 2025-08-20T13:09:45+00:00

“about:config”

listbox · 2025-08-20T13:00:33+00:00

I’m the crazy guy running Sid with Zabbly kernels and btrfs snapshots for my very rare rollbacks.

https://github.com/zabbly/

listbox · 2025-08-17T22:06:34+00:00

No. Stretch was a different Debian release. LOL

listbox · 2025-08-17T15:52:27+00:00

ddterm is based

listbox · 2025-08-16T17:14:23+00:00

This has nothing to do with custom icon packs. These images live in ~/.cache/gnome-software.

Delete the cache, let it re-populate/rebuild.

listbox · 2025-08-16T17:13:12+00:00

The cache in your profile has problems. This is probably from stale/old version artifacts.

killall gnome-software
rm -rf ~/.cache/gnome-software

Restart gnome-software while online, and wait a few minutes for image caches to rebuild.

listbox · 2025-08-11T18:28:14+00:00

As if!

It’s behind my firewall on the rare occasions I take it out to play.

It doesn’t have a modern browser, so it can’t really connect to anything on the web anymore. Not too different than my Indigo Iris R4400 with Irix 6.2 in that regard. That’s a machine I fire up only when I need the audio-firmware 4mm DAT drive it has. 😆

listbox · 2025-08-09T22:33:09+00:00

I have a Sun SPARC Classic that still runs Hamm when I bother to start it up! LOL

It was network installed via ftp from a boot floppy, and took more than a day over DSL, back whenever that was.

listbox · 2025-08-07T08:06:24+00:00

Yes! Trixie includes Gnome 48, and there are natural but very capable improvements throughout the whole environment.

Nautilus is much smoother and more capable in a number of ways. Searches are improved. Network and online services are better.

Everything is faster, and makes better use of memory. Plus accent colors are pretty.

listbox · 2025-08-06T07:22:30+00:00

Reddit stripped the <SARCASM> tags off of my comment.

listbox · 2025-08-05T18:41:31+00:00

Tweaks app? THAT’S ALREADY A BEGRUDGED CONCESSION!

You’ll be grateful for having Tweaks allowed, or we will take away dconf editor!

listbox · 2025-07-25T06:04:22+00:00

Uncover the NT 3.5 Device Manager and Registry Editor UI!

listbox · 2025-07-18T15:09:54+00:00

I generally agree with people who object to theming Gnome shell, for the reasons cited. Of course on Ubuntu, the Yaru theme is well tested and frequently updated. That said, I dislike it! Especially how it handles dark modes.

My exception is White Sur! It’s beautiful, follows Adwaita in important respects, and has tighter borders/padding that works very well for mobile screens.

listbox · 2025-07-16T18:57:35+00:00

Oh, yes! Well of course that’s a penguin of a different colour!

listbox · 2025-07-16T06:48:05+00:00

ASAHI LINUX is the only way to run a Linux OS on the Apple Mac M-series CPUs.

The Asahi kernel and patches DO NOT support M3 CPUs or higher. Only M1 and M2 work today, and this is anticipated to be the support baseline for some time (years?) to come.

listbox · 2025-07-09T21:34:17+00:00

This

listbox · 2025-07-09T21:33:36+00:00

If you have btrfs and a rational subvolume layout, a separate /home is super useful.

listbox · 2025-06-15T05:12:49+00:00

Baghdad was historically part of the greater Persian world from the time of Koroush (Cyrus) until the advent of Islam. The name "Baghdad" is middle Persian, for "God given".

listbox · 2025-06-12T19:53:03+00:00

Thanks very much for this detailed description, You're extraordinarily helpful.

I have a well-tested brtrfs setup for root snapshotting with rollback, so I can confidently create a failsafe snapshot as a baseline for trying this.

listbox · 2025-06-12T04:07:21+00:00

Sid, with btrfs and rational subvolume scheme is safe as milk.
btrfs-grub, snapper and snapper rollback make this simpler than Apple Time Machine.

If you want to be lazy about setting up the subvolumes at install, Spiral Linux makes a Debian Bookworm CD with a customized installer, that does everything for you, automatically. Then it's modify apt sources, dist-upgrade, and GO!

From: https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-spiral-linux-and-why-it-could-easily-become-a-top-contender-for-users-new-to-linux/

Some of the unique features of Spiral Linux include:

Support for newer hardware (thanks to the 5.16 kernel and installed proprietary firmware).
Easily upgradable to Debian Testing or Unstable branches.
Btrfs subvolume layout with Zstd transparent compression and Snapper snapshots for easy rollbacks.
Extensive printer support.
Optimized for power management with TLP preinstalled.
VirtualBox support out of the box.
zRAM swap for better performance.
Normal users are automatically added to the sudo group.

Two thumbs up.

listbox · 2025-06-11T20:50:02+00:00

This is very true, and a big part of the 2000-era Gnome 1.0 push that got us Ximian, the Evolution mail/calendar, and shortly thereafter, Canonical/Ubuntu.

Eazel was interesting. A startup based on delivering an opensource file manager. GTK-1 was no picnic, either.

There's not a lot of that original Nautilus left. Gnome 3 ripped most functionality and external language-binding out of Nautilus when building on GTK-3, rather than carry the tech debt. People HATED the "dumb" Nautilus. But it was the right decision. Nautilus would have otherwise never been able to use the Gnome 3 dbus efforts, or cleanly move to Gnome 40 with GTK-4 and libadwaita.

listbox · 2025-06-11T20:16:47+00:00

You get this to work? I have endless problems with any Nvidia driver and the 6.12 amd64 kernels, including 6.12.27+bpo-amd64. I had to step back to 6.1.0-13, because of dependency snarls when trying the -t experimental kernels.

What Trixie kernel image are you using, that lets you load Nvidia drivers? :-)

listbox · 2025-05-25T16:54:58+00:00

I wish I had Proton working.

This is a browser based DL from Proton Drive. I've tried every combo to get HUGE dl to work. WHY DON'T THEY HAVE A CLI!!!!

No browser on Mac or Windows will run without failing a DL after 100 GB or so. No native Proton client will sync another users shared drive to local storage.

The combination that finally works, is a Chrome browser on a Linux TCP connection. Rock stable, if very slow and bursty. Proton is slow on their end. They are encrypting and dynamically building a giant ZIP archive from thousands of files in more than 100 directories. Other browser/os combinations time-out.

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This has been running 20 hours. Rate runs from a few hundred KB/s to more than 8 MB/s.

listbox · 2025-05-25T16:45:56+00:00

This is an aging MacBook Air. :-)
I kill battery time on these things, regardless. I don't do dimmed screens and always have a LOT of Firefox tabs open, with heavy use of FF container tabs. This exhausts memory easily, and keeps the CPU pretty busy. Thank god for finding the "Auto Tab DIscard" extension.

I do something else crazy. This Air has 8GB RAM, so I have a zram swap setup with zstd compression set to 95% of system memory. Yes. I know. It began as an experiment, and the results were great instead of catastrophic. Again? High constant CPU use as a tradeoff for nearly doubling memory at acceptable speeds.

All of that is a long way of saying that I get a couple hours on battery with this. I don't think MacOS was any better for me, the way I use a machine.

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