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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've seen that one before! ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That's the one I prefer - the game's public domain and has many variants. It was a fan game originally written in BASIC for the PDP-11, I believe, and has been ported many times.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think MPR goes beyond boring. I think it's an anti-masterpiece - designed to drive any viewer insane.

They systematically build you up with that Star Trek hope, only to knock you down and step on your head.

The only kind of redeeming moment is that sort of "We will go on" moment with the Areore at the end. Honestly, despite being a satirical Star Trek species in an otherwise terrible episode, the Areore were kind of fun and I wouldn't mind seeing them again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Smile, of course. I reach it, brother!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If ip a shows your NIC, I'd recommend checking your networking settings (you can do this via GUI in your DE's settings) to see if everything is set correctly e.g is automatic DHCP enabled? (It seems so, based on the error messages. That's just an example.)

I had a situation the other day where my laptop ethernet port was being assigned to an oddball subnet that had no network connection. As it turned out, I had set the port to share internet in order to set up a Google TV (my dorm network requires a MAC address, but the TV had an old version where you couldn't get the MAC address until after TV setup, which required a network connect) and had never reversed the setting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I somewhat agree. I don't hate Chakotay as a character. I guess what I mostly am complaining about are the faux-Native American lore ones where they failed spectacularly at representation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Definitely yes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's not necessarily the problem here.

Normally, Fedora would boot on both types of systems, too. However, OP wants to copy an already-existing UEFI install or at least the config to a legacy system, not (necessarily) to find a distro that could be installed from a normal live installer on both boot types.

Thus the Nix recommendations, as theoretically, one centralized config could be copied between systems to create a similar environment on different systems.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just discovered the source of all your problems by reading your previous post.

The Surface Go 1 is a UEFI system. The Acer Aspire 5737z is a legacy BIOS system and thus can't boot UEFI partitions. If your Aspire was a UEFI system, what you did probably would have worked just fine - no need for a special snazzy distro (no offense, NixOS users).

I'm actually extremely surprised no one noticed this before me.

From here, you have a few routes:

  • Flash the install to the drive, and try to downgrade it to a legacy BIOS system.
  • Reinstall Fedora and copy just your Gnome config over - from what I can tell, it's just a few directories.
  • Buy a slightly newer device (maybe 2012/2013-ish at the earlist, probably originally designed for Windows 8.x) that support UEFI so you could just use the image.
    • Honestly, I am a bit conflicted on this option, as I don't exactly like not reusing the Aspire. However, this may be the easiest way out, and maybe you could put the Aspire to use as a server in a home lab instead.
  • Try NixOS like others have been saying. Learning things is fun when you have the time - I don't, and so stick with Debian.
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What themes do you have installed, and which theme are you trying to switch to? Also, can you confirm what distro and DE you're using as well as any major customizations so I can try and replicate the problem in an Arch VM, please?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Before I continue, you should probably specify your budget explicitly.

With that said, almost anything older than a few years should do what you need to just fine. I have a Lenovo Yoga 710 from 2016 that works decent, and had an old Fujitsu Lifebook from 2010 that wasn't too shabby as well. Heck, I once booted Linux off a cheap piano black Toshiba laptop originally made for Vista.

Just choose a random old laptop and you'll most likely be good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Question: What are you developing?

With that said, NixOS would probably be fine, if not better than fine. From what I can tell, I don't think Guix would be a good idea - the packages appear out of date, according to their package manager. They're still on Python 3.10.

However, I might recommend Debian Testing to you for your purposes. Most of the time, packages are pretty recent, maybe a few months old at the most (sometimes just a few weeks), but you still get most of the stability of regular Debian. The only asterisk is when the freeze happens. I think apt may have gotten some updates as well.

I've been using it on my desktop PC for over two-and-a-half years. I will say I have grown a bit weary of it, as it gets so many updates and software changes so fast. On my laptop, I went with stable and plan to switch or stable on my desktop once Trixie gets stable.

In brief, Testing isn't bad. I'd almost recommend a development VM.

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