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I've also found out how to hide program icons for good and only show the docked windows, but it seems like it only works on certain applications and you have to do it for each and every one.
Which applications? I remember AIMP had a double icon issue because of the playlist but I was going to try see if I could disable the icon entirely for the playlist only and have one icon for AIMP. It'd be real annoying if I just couldn't do that for certain applications.

If your pinned dock is in the top right then setting icon positioning to the top right as well seems to work. Not the bottom right though, since it seems like when there's a dock anywhere on the screen it is commited to taking up that entire row/column. I couldn't find a way to make the pinned dock anchor to anywhere else other than either the far left or far right of the Xinerama canvas.
You could also just move your dock to the bottom (still vertical obviously). That is what I did and it has not reset so far.

I've gotten used to WM pretty fast. I'm trying to find out how to make my own dockapps though the documentation that's available is sparse these days.
I'm not sure but perhaps this might be a good starting point? Good luck with that though. I'd love to see a modern weather dockapp that doesn't look like shit and actually works. Also, while WindowMaker generally doesn't need to be configured much you might find this interesting as well.
 
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The person you responded to wanted to speed up I/O though which I don't believe is possible with MergerFS.
The speedup was for a different directory. I was looking at a large storage pool and a working directory pool. The large storage would be to maximize the space available whole being largely stable and simple.

The working directory pool would in theory have 4 m.2 SSDs in an adapter that can run them all at full speed simultaneously, with a raid that makes the read write as fast as possible. But that was rendered moot because a) a single 1tb drive is significantly cheaper then four 256gb+ drives, and b) a closer look at the motherboards specs revealed that the x16 PCIe slot I intended to plug the 4xm.2 adapter into only ran at x4 speed, so it would only run at the top speed of one m.2 anyways.
 
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b) a closer look at the motherboards specs revealed that the x16 PCIe slot I intended to plug the 4xm.2 adapter into only ran at x4 speed, so it would only run at the top speed of one m.2 anyways.
If you have USB 3.1 gen 2 ports you might still be able to do it.

I should point out that this is way overkill for torrents and shit though.
 
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I honestly don't care as much about specific distros. It is more that newcomers should be given Linux for Niggers instead of Linux for Whites/Trannies.
I think there is a specific type of person who will be happy to start with Arch. If you prefer to jump in the deep end to sink or swim and really want to learn it's a solid choice. However, the type of person who a adapts this way doesn't need someone to tell him to use Arch, he will discover it on its own. People looking for recommendations are often in need of more guidance, and are much better off with a more complete solution catered to their usecase.
 

I could be crazy. But I swear in that last video I linked from him where I said he was coping and seething. He scoffed at the idea of the duplication of work having to be done because of how things are currently being implemented. Because he didn't seem to like the person he was making the video about.

But seems to be agreeing that it's an issue here in this newer video.

I could be completely misunderstanding. But it seems like this is the case.
Brodie started hanging out with the tranny part of linux and started putting perception of him above his opinions. 8 months ago he still hanged out with persona non grata landuke

Now he ofc badtalks him on his mastodon.

While shilling for tranny software still he's a linux gamer and realizes importance of valve in the scene and complained a lot about wayland protocols taking a long time to get implemented in the past. So your observation about him not liking the person implementing it may be correct, I don't recall seeing the video you're mentioning.
 
How much am I missing out on by using the nearly stock configuration of Xfce4 in Xubuntu? The only significant changes I can really think of are changing the wallpaper (which I rarely see anyway) and letting me order windows in the taskbar manually.
 
How much am I missing out on by using the nearly stock configuration of Xfce4 in Xubuntu? The only significant changes I can really think of are changing the wallpaper (which I rarely see anyway) and letting me order windows in the taskbar manually.
I've used it pretty much stock. Turn off desktop icons since I never see them. Set focus follows mouse(personal) and maybe add a few things to the top bar.
 
i mainly heard it through the grapevine from sysadmins about this, i did last hear it 10 years ago so it's probably out of date for more modern devices.
Has nothing to do with it supposedly having issues with expansion cards
has nothing to do with the description of what ZFS is.
I've always wondered what ss13 does to a nigga. even though a good portion requires reading, you very obviously can't.
 
ZFS will install to a hardware RAID pool just fine. It's just a silly thing to do, letting ZFS manage the hardware itself is just better. It arranges read/writes in such an order that the drive heads can do them sequentially, and it will checksum blocks and stop bitrot dead rather than just blindly copy one disk over another whenever it encounters a failure.

Most RAID cards will have an HBA mode (sometimes called passthrough mode), where each drive is presented directly to the OS. Use that instead. Just about any software RAID solution will be better than hardware RAID these days, Mac (ZFS, Disk Utility), Windows (Storage Spaces) and Linux (ZFS, md, LVM, btrfs, Stratis) all have good options available.
 
I tried Wayland session because of more and more regressions appearing in X session of KDE by design, since it's legacy you chud and surprise surprise, clipboard is fucked. Copying from konsole to konsole is unreliable, and I thought that kate was being retarded, nope it's fucked.
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Mouse button rebinding is cool I guess.
 
I tried Wayland session
The only decent Wayland composer I've used in the past year was Hyprland. It's still not great, but it's miles ahead of Sway. It's still a tiling manager, so it's geared to developers and not for casual users.

Unfortunately, 0.43 and up require gcc14 (which is either unstable or non-existent on most Linux distributions) and 0.41 still has a ton of bugs in it, so I went back to i3/X11.
 
The only decent Wayland composer I've used in the past year was Hyprland. It's still not great, but it's miles ahead of Sway. It's still a tiling manager, so it's geared to developers and not for casual users.

Unfortunately, 0.43 and up require gcc14 (which is either unstable or non-existent on most Linux distributions) and 0.41 still has a ton of bugs in it, so I went back to i3/X11.
To be fair hyprland is very much form over function. Try sway, it's a lot more well-established (and i3 compatible).
 
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With Wine 9.0 dropping just a couple of days ago the instruction I wrote no longer works - the installer just crashes mid-install.
I downgraded to Office 2007 for now (because this bug affects already installed versions too), this one seems to work OK. Guess I'll just wait for fixes. Or maybe downgrade Wine itself.
This may sound stupid, but I only just now found out that there are WINE AppImages available out there.
So I tried installing Office 2010 with WINE AppImage (wine-stable_8.0.2), and sure enough it works! Whatever they broke in version 9.0 is no longer a problem.
 
I tried Wayland session because of more and more regressions appearing in X session of KDE by design, since it's legacy you chud and surprise surprise, clipboard is fucked. Copying from konsole to konsole is unreliable, and I thought that kate was being retarded, nope it's fucked.
Do you have wl-clipboard installed? Some console apps need it.

This is going to be a clusterfuck for quite a while considering there are several different clipboards that need to deal with Wayland apps and XWayland apps with no unifying solution. Don't give systemd ideas though.
 
To be fair hyprland is very much form over function. Try sway, it's a lot more well-established (and i3 compatible).
oh god! Sway is fucking terrible! It's way worse. Last time I tried Sway, it didn't even allow for correct XWayland Scaling. None of the system try icons worked at all (even with workarounds). The whole thing would crash if you disconnected a monitor. Hyprland has way better for even simple things, like support for floating things like copy/move dialogs from file managers.

No I mean Hyprland is far superior to Sway in every possible fucking way, not even getting into their communities (The Sway community is insufferable, bitch about everything and Drew DeVault can go die in a car wreck with his tranny, while the Hyperland community is super nice, helpful and Kino).
 
Do you have wl-clipboard installed? Some console apps need it.

This is going to be a clusterfuck for quite a while considering there are several different clipboards that need to deal with Wayland apps and XWayland apps with no unifying solution. Don't give systemd ideas though.
systemd-displayd isn't actually a bad idea, I'll pitch it to Lennart right away.
oh god! Sway is fucking terrible! It's way worse. Last time I tried Sway, it didn't even allow for correct XWayland Scaling. None of the system try icons worked at all (even with workarounds). The whole thing would crash if you disconnected a monitor. Hyprland has way better for even simple things, like support for floating things like copy/move dialogs from file managers.

No I mean Hyprland is far superior to Sway in every possible fucking way, not even getting into their communities (The Sway community is insufferable, bitch about everything and Drew DeVault can go die in a car wreck with his tranny, while the Hyperland community is super nice, helpful and Kino).
Oh, I guess things have changed since the last time I tried to get into tiling WMs.
 
Brodie started hanging out with the tranny part of linux and started putting perception of him above his opinions. 8 months ago he still hanged out with persona non grata landuke

Now he ofc badtalks him on his mastodon.

While shilling for tranny software still he's a linux gamer and realizes importance of valve in the scene and complained a lot about wayland protocols taking a long time to get implemented in the past. So your observation about him not liking the person implementing it may be correct, I don't recall seeing the video you're mentioning.
The one I'm talking about I linked further back in this thread. He was seething at this dude I'm talking about. He didn't like how he was criticizing Wayland, and the guy was giving the same criticisms as this person is giving. He just obviously didn't like the person he was making the video about.

He also brought up lunduke in a video he made a while back, essentially calling him irrelevant, or something along those lines. Because of the timing, I almost felt like the dude gets Google alerts when his. Name gets mentioned, because the timing of that was right after in this thread, it was brought up that he essentially covered something Brian lunduke covered, giving the same info, but not mentioning lundukes name at all.

It obviously could have been a coincidence, but the timing, and the tone he said that in almost seemed like he has seen it was brought up. (Or it could have been mentioned by someone in his comments also)

oh god! Sway is fucking terrible! It's way worse. Last time I tried Sway, it didn't even allow for correct XWayland Scaling. None of the system try icons worked at all (even with workarounds). The whole thing would crash if you disconnected a monitor. Hyprland has way better for even simple things, like support for floating things like copy/move dialogs from file managers.

No I mean Hyprland is far superior to Sway in every possible fucking way, not even getting into their communities (The Sway community is insufferable, bitch about everything and Drew DeVault can go die in a car wreck with his tranny, while the Hyperland community is super nice, helpful and Kino).
Yeah, sway is just worse i3 imo. Hyprland, sure it isn't perfect. But for Wayland compositors I haven't found something I like more.

On the community thing. It's honestly insane how these people act. It's hard to not believe the hate was being so heavily pushed because hyprland is sways top competitor, and is by far the better project. The guy who makes sway suddenly comes out with how heckin problematic the hyprland dev is. Then all the trannies go with it without even questioning it.

If you look at the act allegations made. The hyprland dev literally didn't even say or do anything to suggest he hates trans people. The proof he is a "transphobe" is him not automatically kicking people that said something mildly edgy. And some random out of context edgy jokes. Not even made by the guy himself. He basically just stayed neutral, and stuck his principles.

But that was enough to shun him from their projects, label him a Nazi, and then start making up more allegations to tarnish his reputation further.
 
Do you have wl-clipboard installed? Some console apps need it.
You would think that Konsole being native to KDE wouldn't require any workarounds. I have installed that package now, time will tell. It wasn't just terminal though, which is worrying to say the least.
The only decent Wayland composer I've used in the past year was Hyprland. It's still not great, but it's miles ahead of Sway. It's still a tiling manager, so it's geared to developers and not for casual users.

Unfortunately, 0.43 and up require gcc14 (which is either unstable or non-existent on most Linux distributions) and 0.41 still has a ton of bugs in it, so I went back to i3/X11.
I was never a fan of tiling window maangers, there's a mouse to the right of my keyboard for a reason.
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Are you on Debian or something?

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Does any of you have experience with DDC/CI? I heard rumors before that playing with brightness may wear out eeprom and kill screens. KDE 6.2 brings desktop brightness control for normies, before that it required some patches, and mess with brightness without asking like if it was a laptop.
 
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