Arching Vivaldifarians.

[guigirl]

Am just leaving this YT link here in case any random peep feels a need to Pop over to it & do some post-install stuff... [20 Things to Do After Installing Pop!_OS 22.04].

[TbGbe]

@guigirl

• Install Gnome Tweaks
• Install Gnome Extensions
• Install Google Chrome

I'm out!!

[guigirl]

@TbGbe

Yeah, that last one in particular is a real cracker; heehee

Sorry, i really should have included a health+safety warning with that link.

[TbGbe]

@guigirl said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

Sorry, i really should have included a health+safety warning with that link.

No need. It is automatic with YT links

[guigirl]

This arvo, i decided to do a little gardening.

i've now decided to be brutal, & to purge all the VMs that i feel are no longer offering "value-for-money", or "bang-for-buck".

DELETED:
Archie_|Arch_KDE_Clone_to_EOS
Archie|ArchLabs_Plasma_later
Archie|EndeavourOS_KDE(2021.04.17_ISO)
Archie_|EzArcherKDE_Calamares
Archie|Garuda_Linux_Barebones_KDE
Archie|Manjaro_KDE
Archie|Zen-Installer_Arch
Debian|Sparky_Linux_MATE
Dual-Boot|Mint+Maui
Fedora|Fedora_Workstation
Fedora|Fedora_Workstation_BtrFS
Other|haikur1beta3
Ubuntu|KDE_Neon_Unstable
Ubuntu|Lubuntu_LXQt
\
SURVIVORS:
Arch|Arch_KDE
Archie|Arch_Linux_GUI_Installer_TESTBED
Debian|debiantestingtosid_LXQt
Debian|SparkyLinux_KDE
Fedora|Fedora-Cinnamon
Fedora|Fedora_GNOME+KDE_Branched
Fedora|Fedora_KDE
Mint|Linux_Mint_Cinnamon
Mint|Linux_Mint_x64_17.3_Rosa_KDE [coz, sentimentality; my 1st Nix]
Ubuntu|PopOS [coz, know-thine-enemy, muhahahaha]
Ubuntu|_ZorinLinux

[TbGbe]

@guigirl Gooble Gobble

[guigirl]

@TbGbe Now, iirc, either you or i has shared that link before between us [years ago].

Over my life i've watched that film at least two, but possibly three, times... & felt ashamed of myself each time.

[TbGbe]

@guigirl Possibly both.

[guigirl]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear

Methinks, their download servers might need an exorcism, or at least a kick up the UEFI, in order to get a move-on!

[Pathduck]

@guigirl

$ wget https://ghostbsd.anduin.net/download/releases/amd64/22.06.18/GhostBSD-22.06.18-XFCE.iso
--2022-07-17 15:38:26--  https://ghostbsd.anduin.net/download/releases/amd64/22.06.18/GhostBSD-22.06.18-XFCE.iso
Resolving ghostbsd.anduin.net (ghostbsd.anduin.net)... 185.42.170.218
Connecting to ghostbsd.anduin.net (ghostbsd.anduin.net)|185.42.170.218|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2738921472 (2.6G) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘GhostBSD-22.06.18-XFCE.iso’

GhostBSD-22.06.18-XFCE.iso              100%[==============================================================================>]   2.55G  69.3MB/s    in 36s

2022-07-17 15:39:02 (72.3 MB/s) - ‘GhostBSD-22.06.18-XFCE.iso’ saved [2738921472/2738921472]

Must be aussie internets...

[guigirl]

@Pathduck said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

aussie internets

Two words rarely seen in one sentence together. In fact, we have string, but some hoity-toity types upgraded to fishing line.

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Last night / overnight i used the Canadian & South African mirrors. Curious about how/why wget could/should make any difference, a few minutes ago i initiated it, using this time their France mirror. As you can see, it remains hopeless:

guigirl@archlinuxTower[~] 10:06:41 Mon Jul 18 $> wget https://download.fr.ghostbsd.org/releases/amd64/latest/GhostBSD-22.07.16.iso
--2022-07-18 10:07:00--  https://download.fr.ghostbsd.org/releases/amd64/latest/GhostBSD-22.07.16.iso
Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
Resolving download.fr.ghostbsd.org (download.fr.ghostbsd.org)... 5.39.63.189
Connecting to download.fr.ghostbsd.org (download.fr.ghostbsd.org)|5.39.63.189|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2968027136 (2.8G) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: ‘GhostBSD-22.07.16.iso’

Sigh.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Downloads on fire off the shoulder of aussie internets... I watched aussie modems glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to upgrade.

[npro]

@Pathduck said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

69.3MB/s

[npro]

@guigirl said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

Time to upgrade

Time to return to mother Europe?

[Pathduck]

@npro It's only the Norwegian one that gives that absurd speed, makes sense - but it's actually located in NL from what I can tell it's located in Oslo.

@guigirl

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

That was beautiful

Oh and you might want to try Aria2. It should (in theory) be able to download a file from several locations at the same time with several threads running. But of course, it mostly helps if the bottleneck is server-side bandwidth/connections, not some ocean cable over the whole pacific

[guigirl]

Working-notes, fwiw.

18/7/22: Created from GhostBSD-22.06.18-XFCE.iso, using only BIOS not UEFI, & letting installer handle partitioning etc.

NB: Unlike ALL my Nix VMs, this one is hell for mouse-capture. Initially i simply could not get it to work, but then after forcing it to SPICE-redirect my mouse, the bugger was trapped inside the VM leaving my Host, ie, Towie's Arch KDE, mouseless -- fsckaduck. I could only recover by opening a terminal inside the VM, & executing poweroff. Eventually i found this better but still imperfect workaround; https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=f4e231a1f68ea6ebb896096cc5bb4d37&p=6189396#post6189396 ... "I had to remove the "tablet" device, either from virt-manager's hardware section of the VM... Then the VM would capture the mouse (and left CTRL+ALT to release) /// I had the same issue and this helped me - removing Tablet device from list of devices of the virtual machine definition. Disable "Tablet" device in VM definition". Thereafter, as soon as i clicked "Towie's mouse" anywhere within the VM, it did then auto-capture it ok ... & then to escape my mouse from the VM, per that search-result, pressing left CTRL+ALT did it, phew.

As for this VM itself, first impressions are unfavourable; it's laggy, its "best" screen resolution is only 1280x720, so everything is huge. I reduced font-size to 7pt, but now everything is fuzzy whilst all UI-elements still remain huge ofc. There's no BSD-compatible spice-vdagent afaict, so no Shared Clipboard or Folders. There's no DRM capability, so no "serious" streaming is possible. Sigh. Why have i bothered with this, again?

[Pathduck]

@guigirl said in Arching Vivaldifarians.:

fsckaduck

[guigirl]

A gift to a Pom from a Frog, via a Koala.

[TbGbe]

@guigirl Why not look at the current version? Is there something about only reviewing LTS versions?

[guigirl]

@TbGbe Yeah, i'm with you, but don't worry, he's a tight body-shirt-wearer, hence clearly harbours suspect opinions.

[guigirl]

Fixes for recent Windows issues

I presume that the literal answer to that putative question is something along the lines of

sudo pacman -Rns windozeshyte && sudo pacman -Sy penguinparadiselandia

Seems eminently sensible, & i applaud V on their unilateral proactivity incorporating that code in their downloaded executable.