(Jun 23, 2020, 08:09 am)Fant0men Wrote: [ -> ]The only real problem with Wayland is that desktop environments and window managers won't support it. Many people have this inaccurate idea that Wayland isn't ready or finished yet, but it's been ready for years.
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Right now I'm using MATE, as I like it better than GNOME. Sadly, MATE won't support Wayland anytime soon due to there not being many developers working on MATE to begin with, and they're focused on other things. That's the story with most of the less popular DEs.
Odd. Wayland installed by default on Debian 9, where I have Mate running (though now in 10). I disabled it as it was not needed, and also due to the fact that it decided I should not run as root.
That is something I determine, and usually kill or recompile something that decides to second guess my security policies.
KDE is not that bad on memory, but you should disable the akonadi PIM, the indexer and some other garbage that infests it. And pin it so it doesnt update it.
(Jun 28, 2020, 01:07 am)RobertX Wrote: [ -> ]waregim, you can try JLIVECD.
Get the Neurobin version; I believe that this version is more up-to-date than the other ones. Don't get the Github version.
JLIVECD is purported to work on Linux Mint, Ubuntu Derivatives, Debian, and Arch.
Don't know much beyond that.
EDIT: waregim, Cubic can work with any Ubuntu derivatives, like Linux Mint and Peppermint.
I am using Linux Mint and have been using Cubic to make respins of Linux Mint for more than two years.
I'll need to fire up the Ubuntu VM on the other machine to grab the Cube package. I should be able to install it manually, or edit the installer if necessary. Just remembered that my file manager has .xz support so I can edit the ubuntu .debs manually.
The Neurobin site seems interesting but still a *work in progress*. Some nice utils on it though.
Eventually I will be needing to migrate my Linux install to a larger drive, especially one with a larger /boot , so i can have the space to experiment with more varieties of kernel.
@FO
Personally, I regard the idiotic phobia about 'direct driver access' as nonsensical and pointless on single user systems and networks. Especially as the *hardware* drivers
are the current vectors for boogers. Graphics systems would be alot faster without the 'NT' method, which is what I presume Apple has done all along.
The 'newer' Win methods of security seem to be well designed to frustrate users attempts to gain actual control over their own systems, and certainly not prevent any 'hacker' type attempts. Which cannot, will not, and must not - occur in any system with a remote software controllable firewall. Better known as a honeypot.
The good news is that the propellorheads at m$ have permitted older versions of Win10 some leeway at least in better user control. Using an e-chainsaw it is possible to chop down a Win10 install to half its daemons, kill off alot of garbage like Defender, and effectively double the speed of the system.
Though long ignored, I've been looking at Powershell lately, and there are plenty of tools and scripts for it to give a much more finer grained control than would be normally assumed for m$. Its an interesting language that looks like the better parts of Python, Perl, and C mixed into one. The main annoyance was that I could not seem to get the .PS1 scripts to run from a normal command prompt, though after some putzing around it suddenly started to work. Possibly from installing the Nuget executable.
PS and .NET have already been ported to Linux. Something that may have some interesting consequences for Wine (and Darwin) developers....