Re: BunsenLabs Linux

On 2024-04-18, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 14:36 this Wednesday (GMT):

On 4/17/2024 9:03 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
 

I guess it is a common issue in OpenBox,
but there was a fix — I ran its compositor (Picom) with the option
"--experimental backend" and that fixed it.

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JHC.  Only in GuhNoo bizarro world.
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LibreOffice also puts half-baked "experimental" and "limited" code in
their production releases, labeled as such to excuse their lackadaisacal
efforts.
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No doubt "Picom" is still at version 0.13 after 10 years of "development".
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This!  Is!  Linux!

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$ pacman -Si picom
Name       : picom
Version    : 11.2-1
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Build Date : Tue 13 Feb 24

9.1 is the default for BunsenLabs Linux. (Probably the default for Debian 12
then?) Someone mentioned installing Picom with git, so maybe I'll look into
that. The Wyse 5070 ("Pentium Silver" quad core — just a new name for
Celeron? — has a newer Intel CPU chip) and I haven't noticed any screen
tearing on it so far.

The install went well on the 5070, using its built-in 16 GB EMCC drive.
Boots in about 20 seconds (which I think is pretty good considering its
limitations). No fan, 8 GBs of RAM, using a Pentium Silver J5005 CPU, three
display ports, plus a USB-C/Display Port combo. 5 USB 3.1 (or 3.2) ports,
plus 2 USB 2 ports. Headphone jack on front and back, plus a line out jack
on the front. Came with a GB Ethernet port, plus an Intel WiFi / BlueTooth
card (I believe dual channel). It uses about 6 GBs of disk space, but this
includes Firefox and LibreOffice and quite a few other applications
installed by default — I think the 2.1 GB figure I gave earlier was for a
very basic install.

My only issue was that it automatically took 8 GBs of my flash memory for a
swap file, so I had to turn off swap momentarily, decreases its size to 1.5
GBs and then increase the size of the my main partition in Gparted. So a
very nice, usable $30 basic computer, if don't need to install a lot of
extra applications. When the 128 GB M.2 2280 SATA SSD gets here, I'll
install Linux Mint on that, so I'll able to dual-boot Linuxes.

This computer can use up to 16 GBs of DDR4 RAM – maybe 32 GBs?

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