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@Aatube @LordKitsuna @Tea There are some things I’d like pacman to do automagically that it doesn’t, like update the list of archives when they change. Tried to install a package the other day and it kept throwing 404 errors because I had a stale list of archive sites. It didn’t tell me that, it didn’t fix it automatically.

What Linux distro are you using? To make it not erase the Windows boot manager from the EFI partition simply manually partition, and do NOT mark the EFI partition for formatting, then Linux will add it’s own but NOT erase Windows.

I’ve had Windows and Linux installed on the SAME drive for decades and don’t have this issue. Install Windows first because it WILL fuck up the EFI boot partition, that’s inevitable because Windows sucks, then install Linux, use the manual partition option and simply select the existing EFI System partition for the EFI and DO NOT mark format, Linux will then install and leave the Windows boot loader in the EFI partition undisturbed.

Linux WILL overwrite the boot block to start grub instead of the Windows boot loader, but most Linux distros will automatically add a chain boot loader entry to the grub menu to allow you to boot Windows, at least Debian and Redhat derived distros will do this, probably a more manual process in Arch derived distros.

If it does become necessary to install Whendoze after Linux, you can use boot-repair to automatically fix the EFI System partition Windows fucked up or you can boot off of a flash drive, and fix it manually.

One of the things you run into with audio production software is that in order to maintain accuracy with respect to phasing between channels, they require very accurate timing, this usually comes at the expense of very high interrupt rates and context switching and under the best of circumstances this is hardware intensive, more so with older processors that don’t have single instructions for storing the entire register set or restoring the entire register set to the stack with one instruction as many modern CPUs do. So hate to say it but you may need to upgrade to something less geriatric. You might also try a real-time kernel, it might allow the application to keep things sync’d up with less hardware interrupts though it will rely more on software interrupts do do the same. Unfortunately, I have found that while I can get the performance I require on my six year old processor using a realtime kernel, it has come with a sacrifice of stability, that is to say real time on my hardware at least has not been terribly stable.

@nyankas @HiddenLayer555 Unfortunately I have to agree, I find Photoshop hands down much easier and more intuitive to use than Gimp even though I’ve been using Gimp ever since Adobe went to a subscription only model because I absolutely refuse the Klaus Schwab notion of you will own nothing and be happy, bullshit. I was more than willing to pay for Adobe software when I could buy it but fuck if I will rent it.

@Ulrich I have an android tablet with an termio on it, basically gives me an x-term with an ssh connection. Can also look around locally. Granted they’ve really screwed up the file system layout, much like Mac fucked up BSD, but it is recognizably Linux.

@Ulrich @Reygle There are Android televisions, Android uses a Linux kernel, some of them you can jailbreak, once you get access you can install whatever you like and remove what you don’t.

@marauding_gibberish142 I personally find the Intel ME a useful feature, it’s nice for example to be able to upgrade BIOS without a CPU and/or memory, this has allowed me for example to upgrade the BIOS to a version needed for a newer CPU on a board with a BIOS that didn’t initially support it without needing the older CPU to perform the upgrade. And from a security standpoint, if you do not enable and configure the network stack, and you don’t have a DHCP server available to it for it do so on it’s own, I really don’t see what it can do that is harmful.

@jeena I grant you that is true, but under Linux, the kernel talks to the hardware directly after boot, not through BIOS calls. About the only time you would talk to the BIOS after boot is for sleep/suspend, or in rare cases such as the server my friendica instance runs on, for temp/CPU speed control because Linux kernel has issues properly using the MSR on the i9-10980xe, oddly it does not seem to have the same issue on the i9-10900x which is a ten core CPU in the same family, so I am forced to depend upon ACPI since talking to the hardware directly in this specific case is problematic. If you were running Windows or if you had weird hardware that is somewhat broken under Linux like mine, I can see the need, or if a laptop and you wanted sleep/suspend functionality. But for what you describe it isn’t clear the benefits. And there are some risks like it probably isn’t going to do the extensive memory training of a more advanced UEFI bios like American Megatrends, so your memory access may not be as efficient as it could be, and you’re more limited in hardware selection.

I am curious why coreboot is important?

You can MANUALLY set the voltage on your motherboard lower, for me this is just part of installing a new system, I always use prime95 or mprime on Linux to fully load it and find the absolute minimal voltage the CPU is stable at. We did this with my sons i7-13900k and have never had an issue even though he beats the holy hell out of the machine with gaming and we got it early one right after the chips release. CPU’s are a silicon lottery game and if you just let it set things you’re going either give up efficiency or CPU life over what you get determining optimum settings manually. If you happen to get a chip near the center of the die it will run faster and at lower voltage than one near the outside, but since the manufacturer has to assume the worst, they will specify a voltage that is adequate to run the chip at the rated speed even if it is one of the poor quality chips from the outer edges of the die, the result is excessively cooking your CPU way more than you need to.

@ShortN0te @truthfultemporarily What does sudo have to do with ssh keys?

You can disasble passwords so ONLY keys work, and you can firewall ssh to ONLY IPs you originate from.

@danielquinn @Showroom7561 The differences between Ubuntu and Debian is trivial, however, Debian does do some things more securely, in a business environment that might be more of a consideration, things like requiring a signed kernel and modules, require that debian packages be signed, but if you’re learning, going to be compiling your own kernel, packages, Ubuntu is the better choice, as those things won’t get in the way and also the support for PPA’s is useful.

Yes. set your CD in the VM to a linux distro iso like Linux, set boot from the CD in the vm, then you can use all the tools on your ISO to do whatever you want to the vm.

Linux will run fine with secure boot you just have to have it set for other OS not Windows specifically, however, it is a pain in the ass and if you have physical control over your machine I see no good reason to enable it, it significantly compliciates things like building your own kernels.

If you’re going to install Linux, Dell and IBM are generally very compatible. I’ve got a Dell 1500 series that runs Linux beautifully except the battery has given up the ghost and I need to replace it, also going to swap out the hard drive for an ssd. But Mate runs well on it, even the touch screen features work.

Hasn’t been an issue for me. Perhaps you don’t have your system properly configured?

Control-D gives a hex value of 0x04, where as ENTER or CR gives a hex value of 0x0d,
they are not the same. Control D returns the carriage on old tty machines, on many modern linux platforms it is treated as CRLF, that is carriage return and a linefeed. Control-D indicates end of file or end of transmission.

I’ve had Fedora updates screw up so many times and spent way too many hours fixing mutually conflicting updates that I have really come to loath the OS. I keep a Fedora server running for my customers who are Redrat enthusiasts but Ubuntu is so much better behaved.