My 40th Thread...Linux Life

[jimbee]

Not the person you responded to but I did post about the lock-up problem (Linux Mint / Firefox) in this thread. This morning, having had enough, I installed uBlock Origin in my Firefox browser and I haven't had a lock-up since.

uBlock Origin is amazing. I've been using it for years and highly recommend it. It makes the web usable and filters out much of the cr@p.

 

[jim584672]

I had a scare on updating a laptop, I thought it was bricked for a while. I have backups on everything and was trying to go from Manjaro to CachyOS. Installed the Cachy and the machine doesn't boot. Could not get to the BIOS or setup or boot menu, it just hanged every time. Tried the old disk, no luck. I had to go back to the original Win 11 drive, it had to run through several repair cycles / boot ups and eventually booted as normal. Finally installed Cachy. I think the UFEI in the BIOS got corrupted and Windows somehow was able to fix it.

 

[target2019]

In my readings of late I have come across warnings (Claude) about UEFI, fast boot, etc. when installing dual boot with Win 11.

From memory, UEFI on, Fast Boot off, Disk Encryption off.

Be aware that I am not an expert.

 

[jim584672]

In my readings of late I have come across warnings (Claude) about UEFI, fast boot, etc. when installing dual boot with Win 11.

From memory, UEFI on, Fast Boot off, Disk Encryption off.

Be aware that I am not an expert.

I always avoid a dual boot on the same disk because Windows will mess with any other OS it sees, usually making it unbootable.

 

[ejman]

I always avoid a dual boot on the same disk because Windows will mess with any other OS it sees, usually making it unbootable.

Same here. I installed Linux in a separate HD and then select Windows HD in BIOS when booting up for the very rare occasions I want to use Windows for some reason. 99.9% of the time I use MX Linux with KDE as the desktop environment.

 

[target2019]

Finally got around to live-booting the 17" Dell to Linux.

I had created a Win 11 boot for emergency use, and decided to get linuxmint-22.3-xfce-64bit. Grabbed an old 2.0 flash drive and used Rufus for the burn.

Boot-up was about a minute, and I used the Task Manager to see 0-1% CPU useage, memory use 7% of 16 GB. That is a large contrast with windows 11, where the system seems occupied with a myriad of processes lighting up and settling down. The system also uses 8 GB (out of 16 GB), which is definitely excessive for a "modern" system.

I left the flash drive in and woke up the system from sleep with no problems. Installed Brave browser without a problem (used Software Manager).

One dissapointment was problems with my bluetooth Apple mouse disconnecting. After some tweaks, the problem remained, and I switched to a wired mouse.

I shut down last evening, and booted to flash. Only problem is that I need to learn more about persistence, so that Brave stays installed, and saved documents remain after a reboot. IOW I want everything on the flash drive, at least for now during these experiments.

I will eventually install linux to the notebook primary SSD. Just have not decided on a distro yet.

What else should I try live?

 

[jim584672]

CachyOS has a live iso, I believe the desktop environment is KDE Plasma. If you want to install you have 17 different desktop environments to choose from.

https://cachyos.org/download/

 

[ERD50]

.... Only problem is that I need to learn more about persistence, so that Brave stays installed, and saved documents remain after a reboot. IOW I want everything on the flash drive, at least for now during these experiments. ...

I can't add much, I don't play around with different distros much. But the persistence setting when booting from a USB stick has been hit-miss for me. I've had it work just as it should with no problems. All system settings are preserved, new programs downloaded and installed remain installed with preference changes, etc, and I can save and reload documents. Very handy to live boot from something like that for troubleshooting, or testing different hardware.

Other times, I just give up - can't get it working (but I never try very hard before giving up, because my needs aren't that great). Let us know if you find any reliable processes for persistence on a USB thumb drive.

 

[jim584672]

I've been testing CachyOS on various machines, cutting edge has a price, breakages. Recent update broke the Nvidia dkms driver so had to roll back updates until it gets fixed. Btrfs has snapshots that you can roll back to, when you start the machine the snapshots appear. Only the Nvidia machine had this problem. Other than that I really like the speed of this distro.