Grunkle Moose

Digital man going analog.

My automotive half can be found at https://weird.autos/@fxworks

Operating systems I'm "into" lately:

* Alpine Linux: https://alpinelinux.org
* Chimera Linux https://chimera-linux.org/

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2026-10-24 15:59:51 GMT

Hard life lessons...
#nevent1q…zxrc

2026-10-06 05:12:27 GMT

Finally turned attention to getting Immich up and running tonight. I like it, seems snappy enough with tens of thousands of photos imported.
The Immich website has a handy form driven page for generating a docker compose file so it took like 30 seconds to get it running once mutated to follow my way of doing things on my server (persistent storage, naming, cert proxy, etc).
I struggled a bit with using the Immich command line tool to import my photo collection and in the process of trying to figure out why --recursive didn't work, stumbled upon the immich-go project on github. It's also a command line tool and works very well; immediately was able to recursively import photos, etc. Compiles cleanly on Alpine Linux (ofc, it's just golang).
Immich-go has a migrate function that allows you to connect to one Immich server and copy the files to another Immich server (but no 'delete source' as far as I could tell).
I set up a second Immich instance on a different port and started to use the migrate function to finally start moving all the photos of my computer electronics and vehicle technical projects out of the whole household's photo collection. My wife will appreciate that. Ha. Managed to split out 2026-2025, only ~25 more years to go. Ugh.
Anyway, Immich (the server) and Immich-go (the CLI tool) are cool. Recommended.
Fun!
#immich #immichgo #AlpineLinux #cli #photography #photos #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

2026-10-05 17:26:27 GMT

Were any of the talks from the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference 2026 posted anywhere?
#nura #nuraeco #postmarketOS #AlpineLinux

2026-09-24 21:34:21 GMT

I guess I hadn't looked at photos since migrating to Alpine Linux lately.
Does anyone have HEIC (i.e. Apple) formatted images working correctly under Alpine?
I've installed libheif, kimageformats and anything remotely libheif related in the repo but Gwenview still doesn't display HEIC images. Neither does Shotwell.
I installed Ristretto to compare and it also doesn't display HEIC images.
GIMP works as does Darktable.
Dolphin displays the thumbnails properly but the preview pane doesn't work.
Ideas? Kinda pulling my hair out and out of options.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #AlpineLinuxEdge #KDE #Plasma #Gwenview #libheif #HEIC #Apple #Ristretto #GIMP

2026-09-22 13:02:44 GMT

Time to unmothball some old fvwm configs and tweak for cow it seems...
#cow #cowwm #wm #wayland #WaylandDesktop

2026-08-25 17:27:53 GMT

Was at the "local" computer store last night (Canada Computers Kanata) and while searching for what I was looking for I stumbled across the keyboard display.
The keyboard I've been using for couple of years has been an e-waste thingy lying around from an old Dell pre-built. It's serviceable and perfectly fine but...
The Logitech G-something-or-other that I had before that was too expensive given the short lifespan it had so I never got around to replacing it with like-for-like.
Anyway, I saw a really cool looking "cheap and cheerful" Chinese doo-hickey and rolled the dice (DAREU EK106 Pro).
It has a great feel and seems like decent build quality for C$66. It feels better than the Logitech too (materials, design). It comes in different colours also.
It's always hard to tell if brands you don't know in your local store are worth a damn but I give this brand and model a thumbs up. I really like it after pounding on it all morning.
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2026-08-21 12:37:44 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 Like minds and all that. Ha.

2026-07-27 13:37:05 GMT

Thinking about a new domain+project...
Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?
Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?
I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.
Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.
I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.
What's out there?
#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #web #selfHosting #SelfHosted

2026-07-23 18:07:43 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 We've got your back.

2026-07-21 13:55:37 GMT

Hey Gang...
Trying to do some damage control for a relative that is stuck on Windows.
What's a good Windows email client nowadays, something with good calendar integration, etc., multiple accounts?
That IS NOT Outlook.
Thanks.

2026-07-20 18:09:00 GMT

"Twasn't me..."
"Well... it was teh case's fault!!!11!!!"
🤡
If you ever wanted a good reason to keep around your failed hard drives, scavenging screwed up logic boards is a good reason. Ha!
#Linux #RunBSD #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Hardware #HDD
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2026-07-18 03:25:29 GMT

Spent a lot of time today playing with OPNSense (err, fighting - a while back my whining about not getting along with networking was no joke).
Eventually got what I wanted to work to actually work: OPNsense as an exposed node inside a Bell Giga Hub network and routing/NAT'ing to a dmz host hanging off said exposed node. But omfg, I suck at this stuff. It's painful - be glad you can't watch me work. Ha.
Aaannyyyywwwaaaayyyyyy...
If you haven't already upgraded to the latest OPNSense (26.7), you may be surprised by some of the quality of life GUI clean up and more impressively the sped up boot time. On my N150 based box it boots 'super fast' like a normal PC compared to the old fashioned, slow thing it was doing before. No hard data to share, just a seat of the pants anecdote.
#OPNSense #RunBSD #networking #PF

2026-07-17 08:33:50 GMT

It's infuriating that every USB A connector seems to have three sides and it only ever mates when attempted to connect on the third try.

2026-07-15 19:10:08 GMT

If one say wanted to move a ZFS root pool from a Linux host and re-install as a root pool on a FreeBSD host, is there anything "special" that needs to be done beyond the standard export/import type tutorials out there?
I mean, beyond mounting the rpool initially from the install media and deleting everything outside of /root and /home I mean?
Backups are verified; just trying to save the time involved for rebuilding ZFS under FreeBSD (vs import) and restoring TBs of data.
Anything special or considerations about the Linux -> FreeBSD movement of the pool?
#Linux #RunBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS

2026-07-12 13:51:44 GMT

Seems like it's been a busy week for the Alpine devs.
This weekend the repo upgrades linux-stable from 7.0.10 > 7.1.3; Plasma from 6.6.5 > 6.6.6. I'll be keeping an eye on the later. Ha.
Maybe I'll take a swipe at trying the 7800 XT (RDNA3) card in my main machine again to see if things have improved. It's too nice out to be screwing around in the lab today.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #AMDGPU

2026-07-11 15:10:49 GMT

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@nprofile…hth5 That's interesting.
I just "unmothballed" my old N100 based router (SZBox) and installed Alpine on it.
Pkg power use in btop says ~1.7W but the Kill-A-Watt says just under 13W. This is at idle.
The 6 x 2.5GB ports (one active) and dual nvme probably not helping.
You are getting much more compute / W bang for the buck. At least at idle. Ha

2026-07-11 15:01:15 GMT

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@nprofile…hth5 Any insights on power consumption with the 9700T?

2026-07-11 00:30:19 GMT

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@nprofile…h3v3 Got a different known, good usb stick to try to boot from? Monkey around in the bios usb settings - reset to start from oem perhaps? Secure boot off?

2026-07-09 15:36:48 GMT

Does anyone know of a tool that...
Takes an image of a line chart / graph and can turn it into an approximate data table?
If inclined, I could probably use some AI BS to do this but want to avoid fishing with nukes, and do it locally - without me firing up an image editor and manually picking off data points. Ha.
Suggestions?

2026-07-09 15:29:12 GMT

I'm now at the point that I resent^* having to occasionally log into and manipulate the remaining systems still running systemd based operating systems...
* Resent is too strong a word but you know what I mean.
#nevent1q…sr0t

2026-07-07 20:33:40 GMT

Oh, cool. Waterfox is in FreeBSD-ports.
#RunBSD #Waterfox #FreeBSD

2026-07-06 13:47:57 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 I had a similar experience when we got FTTF (to the farm 🙃 ) recently.
But what I was really surprised by was how some websites are still terribly slow even with effectively infinite bandwidth thrown at them. Ha.

2026-07-03 19:49:42 GMT

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@nprofile…cdd3 @nprofile…cpjz Keep it simple?
https://www.classicpress.net/

2026-07-03 15:51:03 GMT

This is cute.
https://distrofighter.com/
#Linux #Distro #DistroWars

2026-06-25 17:46:01 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 Lasagne...!

2026-06-25 01:10:27 GMT

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@nprofile…j9f5 I would be happy with a cifs/samba _client_ for FreeBSD.
In 2026 it's kinda ridiculous that a FreeBSD workstation can't mount samba shares. If it's possible with Linux emulation shenanigans... I don't care.

2026-06-16 23:39:47 GMT

I love that feeling you get when you finish tuning your Linux desktop box with everything optimized and "just so" and nothing left to mess with or install. Colours, wallpaper, apps, hardware acceleration, menus, widgets/plasmoids, filesystems backed up, etc.
Oh, that's just me?
Never mind. Carry on.
#Linux #AlpineLinux

2026-06-15 08:53:46 GMT

Alpine Linux Merchandise... Does it exist?
Quick search shows some random stuff around but no indication that any proceeds get back to the project.
Don't see anything called out on the website but I could be blind.
#Linux #AlpineLinux

2026-06-12 12:12:40 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 "I went to BSDCan 2025 and all I got was the stupid sunburn" T-shirts were available in the lobby?

2026-06-11 20:22:53 GMT

Anyone know why using sftp with Dolphin in Plasma is so slow in Alpine Linux?
Using Debian, doing the same thing is like greased lightning.
It's not network, ssh/scp/rsync/sftp command line works wicked fast between hosts with Alpine.
Something about Alpine and Plasma it seems. This has been an on-going thing.
Anyone know a workaround, beside using a different protocol I mean? This should "just work" like on other distros.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #Alpine #Plasma #KDE #KDEPlasma #Dolphin #sftp

2026-06-06 12:44:41 GMT

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@nprofile…33pr Is it Gigabyte? If yes let it sit a while powered on before giving up. I know it sounds weird but I have a mobo in one of my machines like this. If you touch anything on the phys board (video cards, ram) it does something with no indication for like 5 mins before it boots.

2026-06-02 15:16:06 GMT

The most annoying part of systemd?
"A start/stop job is running.... blah.. blah..." and wait for who knows how long in spite of what is on the screen.
I can _tolerate_ a lot but this type of thing getting in my way really pisses me off.
#Linux #systemd

2026-05-30 01:39:25 GMT

Anyone had success running Distrobox (Debian/Ubuntu vm) under Alpine Linux to get Blender with Cycles/HIP support working on an Alpine host? Something I gotta try...
#Linux #Alpine #AlpineLinux #Blender #ROCm #AMD #HIP #Distrobox #Podman #Docker

2026-05-25 22:51:37 GMT

I guess since the whole "Flatpak creating a dependency on systemd" bullshit has surfaced this week there has been some other conversations about systemd going on throughout the Fediverse.
I've seen some oblique references to Debian making an effort to make OpenRC more viable as an alternate init system. That's about all I've gathered on my hit-n-run timeline surfing the last several days. Not sure if this is an official Debian project or just someone's wish list.
Anyone have the skinny? Links to actual discussions?
#Linux #Debian #systemd #OpenRC #Flatpak

2026-05-22 16:48:05 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 I'm not as excited as my sons are - but am pretty excited! Ha.
Finally be able to do stuff like having my own navidrome<>car type stuff and vpn access and have it work properly all_the_time.

2026-05-22 14:13:04 GMT

Finally, fibre internet is available in my rural location. 1.5 Gbps is certainly much faster than the 25 Mbps LTE we have had the last several years.
Just think how fast Mastodon will load now! LOL

2026-05-20 14:33:03 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 So many auth keys improperly obscured now in the wild...

2026-05-15 18:49:39 GMT

Took the day off to get my MX-5 out of winter storage.
So far have been under a greasy tractor all afternoon replacing fuel lines and pump.
Should've gone to work. lol

2026-05-13 15:18:39 GMT

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Is there anyone out there running an AMD 5650GE based system running Linux or BSD?
Can you tell us your CPU and GPU idle power numbers as displayed in btop?
Maybe this is an "easy button" of sorts to reduce power on an existing AMD AM4 system without going through the machinations of new mobo, ram, etc., etc. Get most of the way there?
#Linux #RunBSD #AMD #5650GE #PowerConsumption #Power #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #SOHO

2026-05-13 08:10:03 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 @nprofile…mq2q I've got a Prusa Original XL and have been very happy. "Fire and forget" type of machine.

2026-05-12 16:57:34 GMT

Is there anyone out there running an AMD 5825U based system running Linux or BSD?
Can you tell us your CPU and GPU idle power numbers as displayed in btop?
#Linux #RunBSD #AMD #5825U #PowerConsumption #Power #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #SOHO

2026-05-07 13:03:45 GMT

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@nprofile…x8t7 As a Linux greyhair I'll say, for me, it's less about the age verification thing and more about how terrible systemd is in practice.
Systemd's latest BS is just a tipping point of sorts to say "enough" in spite of any old thing being put into the age fields if necessary. It's just bad.

2026-05-04 18:25:14 GMT

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@nprofile…h3v3 Great game - many, many hours...

2026-05-02 10:02:37 GMT

Anyone have recent experience with the PineTab2?
Usability when running pmos or some other distro?
#pine64 #pinetab #pinetab2 #linux #tablet #rk3566 #rockchip #pmos #postmarket #postmarketos

2026-05-02 09:47:43 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 All hail lasagna! We went vegan ~2.5 years ago and just in the last while my wife has perfected a good vegan lasagna. It was one of the few things I missed! Ha.

2026-05-02 09:44:36 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 Sorry to hear this. I wasn't aware of his 2020 accident. Sad news for certain.

2026-05-01 11:05:15 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 Get well, Dude. Stop and take the time.

2026-04-30 20:38:43 GMT

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@nprofile…33pr Virtualbox is slow/klunky, at least the last time I was running it on a work Mac (~2018, Intel).
But if you are only running SAP cpanels type crap and whatnot it probably won't matter.
I don't know if Winboat is available for macOS - iirc docker implementation on Mac is kinda dumb so maybe precludes?

2026-04-28 17:49:10 GMT

Blender re: tone-deafness re: taking money from Anthropic...
#Blender #Blender3D #AI #noAI
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2026-04-24 17:13:46 GMT

I'm running Plasma 6.6 on a box and I'm kind of struggling with the lack of adjustable window outline intensity. I really miss this... whined about it elsewhere.
Examples attached of with and without and where to set it in pre-6.6 and 6.6.
Anyone know how to get this setting back, either via command line or smoke signal or whatever?
#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #Plasma66 @nprofile…sjdl
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2026-04-13 17:16:21 GMT

I've been running two degraded ZFS arrays for the last few weeks (Debian host).
Yeah, I know. Whatevs.
One of the pools was basically "scratch" backup space and one of the spindles died (breaking the utility of the mirror). Pulled the drive, wiped the remaining, put back in service with minimum fuss as a single drive. I'll throw another spindle at it when drive prices drop again.
The other array had the SSD cache die and it's been chugging along fine ever since. Not a big deal, but from a "experience" point of view it "feels slow" like a working md array.
New SSD arrived in the mail so that'll get sorted sometime today/tomorrow.
So, what's this post about?
Linux peeps, if you are thinking about md arrays, just stop, take the time, and throw 'yer leg over the zfs horse. It's worth it.
#Linux #RunBSD #zfs #md #mdadm #raid #homelab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

2026-04-10 21:36:05 GMT

Is there a "trick" to getting Firefox/Waterfox/spin_of_choice to actually reload images from source when you press Shift-Reload / Shift-Ctrl-R ?
Sometimes it does it - most of the time it keeps reloading the same image from cache for a really long time regardless how many times you shift-reload. Closing the browser doesn't help most of the time.
What am I missing?
#Web #Firefox

2026-04-05 14:07:06 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 As a fairly "hard core" car dork I am finally prepared to buy an electric car as the next daily driver appliance.
But I don't know if I'll be able to bring myself to do it.
Modern cars are rage inducing due to the terrible infotainment systems and dangerous active safety supports.
If every time I get in the car the first step is to turn off all the nanny systems then I'm not sure I'll be able to do it.
The newest car we currently own is 2016 GTI (wife's toy summer daily and autocross car) and that car has a dangerous accident avoidance system that can be turned off and stays off between restarts. Thankfully, our 2016 Touareg is of the older generation and doesn't have any of that nonsense on it. All my 'fun' cars are much older but I don't drive them in the winter time since we are in the rust belt. Getting into my MR2 is like a breath of fresh air. At the moment doesn't even have a radio in the dashboard. Ha.
ABS and traction control were great additions to every day cars. Beyond that the systems are intrusive and sometimes dangerous if they actively affect a car's velocity IMO.
Looking at the number of responses in your thread I think you struck a nerve. Ha!

2026-04-03 01:06:22 GMT

This is the way.
#nevent1q…3ndz

2026-03-31 20:06:36 GMT

A tool that doesn't get enough love is the KDE "ISO Image Writer".
Sure there's dd and there's tools like Rufus, Etcher, and whatnot, but if it's effectively a tool meant for your platform then why not?
[ Currently writing Alpine v3.23 to a stick to wipe/replace my garage 'droid from Debian to Alpine after work ]
#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #AlpineLinux #iso #iso9660 #USBStick
https://apps.kde.org/isoimagewriter/

2026-03-30 17:19:09 GMT

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@nprofile…vf35 always enjoy nuking a fresh Windows install!

2026-03-30 16:30:35 GMT

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@nprofile…wslp I'm very much in the same boat - looking to reduce power, space, and brane pan requirements.

2026-03-27 08:40:05 GMT

There's one last thing I need to get my head around with respect to using FreeBSD jails as a replacement for docker/podman.
I generally configure containers as totally ephemeral. Any data or individual files that a container uses, and that I care to keep, resides outside the container. It is linked inside via volumes defined in the run shell script or compose file. In some cases even dumb things like root's .bashrc gets linked in so that nuking a container doesn't lose the shell history the next time something needs hand fettling (mediawiki, maintenance scripts, composer, bootstrap, and friends - yes, needs more automation).
Any time a container gets restarted, step one may be to delete the container (and associated volumes it creates), re-pull latest and instantiate fresh. This is pretty typical for Jellyfin for example.
Also, working this way means that the entire backup process can exist outside the container volumes and nothing redundant in /var/lib/docker needs to get backed up.
Anyway, I need to figure out how to achieve something similar under FreeBSD jails. I'm assuming there is something in ZFS that provides a similar type of functionality during jail startup but haven't dug into it yet.
Then there's the 'correct' and easy way on how to upgrade the software inside a jail (os components and services the container runs) that needs experimentation on my side. Some scripting to do.
Jails seem much more elegant but there is lot of old cruft and 'finger memory' to work around. Ha. A lot of stuff is pre-wired and ready to go for regular usage in Linux containers in comparison, I think.
The journey continues.
#FreeBSD #jails #docker #podman #RunBSD

2026-03-26 21:41:48 GMT

More monkeying around with OpenBSD. I spent a bunch of time getting LXQt working but the themeing was taking too much time so I threw more ram at the VM and installed KDE. The goal was to learn about OpenBSD, not LXQT. Ha.
Lots of the standard apps are there in OpenBSD but I need to find out how to get Librewolf and Waterfox going. Having done zero research, I'm assuming I need to compile from source.
I saw an article out using "Molly" as an alternate Signal Messenger client (xn--gckvb8fzb.com/if-you-must-use-signal-use-molly/). May try it in the future.
The KDE Plasma version is 6.4.5. IIRC KDE is stopping X11 support so I will need to figure out something else I guess. I've seen threads about Wayland on OpenBSD but didn't go down the rabbit hole yet. What little I read implied not ready for prime time.
The VM feels pretty snappy even though the QEMU agent doesn't really help with video options. This is using the VGA driver setup to get a decent resolution.
I really need to get this Jeep back on the road. I miss it.
#OpenBSD #KDE #KDEPlasma #LXQt #VM #QEMU #Librewolf #Waterfox #X11 #Wayland #Signal
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2026-03-24 10:56:02 GMT

Meme scene from Star Wars Rogue One where Krennic confronts Galen Erso on the plain before abducting him...
Krennic: What?! You don't have any distros running systemd? A man of your talents?
Galen: It's a peaceful life.
#systemd #Linux #RunBSD #meme
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2026-03-24 01:28:17 GMT

Sometime around 2017 (IIRC) I got nostalgic for a little "netbook" type computer and decided, for some reason, that an HP Stream 14 would scratch that itch.
These are really low spec machines, even for 2016-2017. It came with Windows 10 and the first Windows Update basically filled the disk and effectively bricked the device. LOL!
I installed Linux on it after that (ofc) but didn't really use it much. So slow....
I was digging around in my service manuals library this evening and stumbled over it in a drawer of files... for some unknown reason it was in the drawer.
I started it up thinking it was still running Arch from back before Covid and might be entertaining to try to get it to update to the present.
Hmm, Alpine 3.21 boots console but sway is installed. Weird, no recollection of doing anything with this machine 12-18 months ago. "I'm not saying it's aliens..."
Ok, Alpine updates to 3.23 without issues. I'm not much of a tiling window manager person so I installed Plasma. Bad idea! With 4GB of ram and an afterthought of a CPU and storage it doesn't run very well at all.
Installed LXQt with labwc and it runs great! Tweaking and themeing to come. (Hi @nprofile…2nsa 👋 )
Not sure what I'm going to do with this machine but currently it is pretty usable for simple stuff. Screen and keyboard sucks, pretty close to e-waste. Lesson: ~$200 (retail) laptop is about as good as you would expect a $200 laptop to be. Ha.
#Linux #AlpineLinux #LXQt #netbook #labwc #windows #Windows10
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2026-03-21 19:52:53 GMT

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@nprofile…65q8 Btw, if you are really thinking about getting an electric car, check out Jonny Smith's channel on Youtube (The Late Brake Show). He has done a lot of sensible reviews of electric cars over the years and is UK based.