Gah. I should have stated “I see what you did there.” instead. ;)

Like 65534 times.

So close to full 16-bit max. So close…

TIL: that exists.

I’ve always thought GOAT stands for Gentleman Of All Trades. I make a wild guess it’s Girl Of All Trades in this case?

That’s a really neat feature.

Well, yeah. Hard drive failure can force a reinstall. And with laptops there isn’t usually another place for a hard drive, from where to restore the system.

Yes. I agreed with you. But I made it sound like something else. Bad wording on my side.

As I’m too Gentoo openrc user. I also use seatd+greetd instead of (e)logind and replacing sysvinit with openrc-init. The availability of choices made me do it!

Yes.

Really the hardest part of desktop linux for a regular, so called “internet user”, in the installation.

They don’t have no clue how to install an operating system, even windows.

I once installed CentOS workstation for my father on his ThinkPad. Firefox and Libreoffice is all he needs. Automatic updates in the background make sure all the latest security patches are applied. There have been few time when, after the update, the laptop hangs at boot. I’ve since told him to choose the second-to-last boot option from the “start-up menu” until the fix for the bug has been deployed (usually in within a 24h).

So really using Linux isn’t the hard part. Back in 2004 (ish) I went the painful route of installing my first Linux - Gentoo. But boy I learned a lot from it. Yes, I had a helping friend to get me over the hardest parts.

because it’s actually designed modular

Oh? Try to use systemd without logind or journald. logind isn’t so bad, but journald was bad enough, that I gave up with systemd.

Rolling with Gentoo here. Reinstall is not performed even when complete hardware upgrade has been done.

Yeah.

At maximum a bug/issue tracker is needed.

“server”

Oh, I’m familiar with ip command. I’ve just completely missed ss.

Wait? ss? why haven’t I heard of this?

Good bot.

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virt-manager uses QEMU/KVM by default. Some distros do work in containers too.

Xen turn your PC into a hypervisor. Where you can switch your OS without much hassle.

Making each OS boot on bare metal will make you cry if you want to be able to boot several different OSes.

Choose one:

• XEN
• virt-manager

Yes. I stand corrected.

So the kernel memory management system wants to free up some RAM… it’ll either kick stuff out of the page cache (this is the disk cache), or write some stuff out to swap. vm.swappiness determines “relative I/O cost” of swapping something out versus dropping some disk cache (i.e. how much you think it’ll slow the system down.) Total value is 200, so default vm.swappiness=60 means page cache is 140 (200-60). 140/60=2.33, so it considers regular disk I/o to be about 2.33 times the speed of swap. Settings vm.swappiness=100 means swap and disk I/O are equally fast; on modern kernels, in case you had a fast swap system (like some auxillary RAM disk or optane ssds or something) you can even set vm.swappiness over 100 to say 150 to say swap is faster than your regular disk.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72544562/what-is-vm-swappiness-a-percentage-of

vm.swappiness value should be between 0 and 100 IIRC.