Baldurs Gate 3

Doesn’t even have to be the key necessarily. Could get in via some exploit first. Either way taking over the machine became a 2-step process.

I don’t know the support model for Framework but they should really be able to work through these issues for such a common distro. With the various things you mentioned it doesn’t sound like bad configuration, it sounds like a hardware issue. Given that Windows is so different from Linux it may be the case that Win11 does a better job masking the issues.

https://www.system-rescue.org/disk-partitioning/Repairing-a-damaged-Grub/

I would also suggest, if you get grub back, to choose the 2nd kernel version in the list. The latest/top one will probably put you back to your broken state.

Super happy with Bazzite as a gaming PC. I think only a power user might find the “immutableness” of it annoying. You can still install OS packages, it’s just highly discouraged. 90% of the time you’d just be running Flatpaks (a mostly self-contained app that is easy to install and remove). I’m using it with an old-ish NVIDIA card and at first it was troublesome but I think it worked itself out after a few updates. AMD has better compatibility from what I understand.

Mine (XPS 15) might surpass an hour but I rarely work on it constantly while unplugged. I mostly say the battery is piss poor because even suspended the battery will die in a few hours. It probably didn’t suspend to RAM so it was effectively running with a blank screen. Hibernate also resulted in a hard reset half the time.

I feel simultaneously good and bad that the least modern team at my company is the Windows admin team. I hope they were embarrassed as shit when they were asked how that automated process I help them create 9 months ago was going and they said, “Uh, we’ll be rolling it out this quarter.” They’re constantly at least 2 steps behind our Linux admins.

I have Mission Center. It’s great but at the process level it only shows current usage, not a time series average or summation.

Right, I just meant I figured the data might shift horizontally between snapshots but I guess Awk can figure it out.

I’m on Budgie. 😕

It might but it also looks really advanced. I’m hoping to get stats on just one machine and not really monitor my entire infrastructure (which ain’t much).

I’m guessing this isn’t a totally comprehensive article but I’m not sure it will give the granularity I need: https://betterstack.com/community/guides/monitoring/monitor-linux-prometheus-node-exporter/

I would hope to get process names as part of the export.

Looks nice but their graph doesn’t seem to show more than usage per core, not per process. Just based on the screenshots that is.

Any tips or how-to article that says how to push the top data to a DB? I figure scraping the output is no good because the layout is dynamic.

They have different purposes. While I do use flatpak whenever possible there are some things that need to integrate more closely with the OS and the sandbox makes the tool or service useless.

It wouldn’t be seamless but if you used an “immutable distro” like Fedora Silverblue then 95% of your customization would be in your home directory. You could go from VM to bare metal and then copy over all of your home files.

I haven’t used it nearly as much as VirtualBox but Boxes (flatpak) is definitely a breeze to use. It uses KVM under the hood I think. If your use cases are complicated it might abstract away too much though.

I don’t think I encrypt my drives and the main reason is it’s usually not a one-click process. I’m also not sure of the benefits from a personal perspective. If the government gets my drives I assume they’ll crack it in no time. If a hacker gets into my PC or a virus I’m assuming it will run while the drive is in an unencrypted state anyway. So I’m assuming it really only protects me from an unsophisticated attacker stealing my drive or machine.

Please educate me if I got this wrong.

Edit: Thanks for the counter points. I’ll look into activating encryption on my machines if they don’t already have it.