they probably already bought too many of Boeing planes before these accidents happened. So what are they gonna do, put a bunch of Boeing planes in the back room and use Airbus? Still when i fly, I avoid Boeing like a plague. The problem is there are very limited Airbus flights for my route.

oh the yuge biggie gold card

Now imagine all these protesters marching toward the capital…

gonna be a bloodshed with thousands of National Guard arresting people right?

Right?

For any modern laptops, it is very rare to find one with dual SSD. I guess for your case it is different, my old 2012 Thinkpad can take dual drive too but it is slow.

On laptop?

If you’re a complete newbie, go Ubuntu. Yes, it’s boring but the community is huge. You can find a lot of answers about problems on reddit/ stack over flow…etc. Literally any Linux problem you have, a Google search of that will show many answers from Ubuntu community.

Sway is fine. I still prefer i3 because I still use many X applications.

Now for this meme specifically, sway and i3wm are actually easy to understand once you know the basic key chords. Sway in particular can also allow drag and drop to tile manually without shortcuts.

Dwm though is a nightmare for Linux beginners let alone those who never use Linux before. I3 needs a .config file, so newbies can read it and figure out the key bindings. On Dwm? It doesnt need one because the system can just run the compiled dwm executable. So if you really want to make it more secure: configure dwm to your likings => compile it => delete the source folder. Nobody will know wtf is going on, except you.

–What distro did you install?–

Nvm, I searched and it is Ubuntu 25.04 lol. I kept thinking there was a distro names “GNU Linus OS” that I never know about. So you’re purely on Linux now, congrats. Was the majority of the installation time on transferring data?

Ubuntu is a great distro, everything should work till forever if you dont mess around with system configs. Even if you like to tinker with system, Linux is easier to fix than Windows. Command lines can be scary at first but they really help.

yeh… this works 100% if you are single booting Linux. As soon as Windows enter the equation, things get fucked up because of stupid Windows update. Say you have an update and it fails to install because the message “Windows is wotking on updates. Don’t turn off the PC. This will take a while” appears for like 6 hrs. Try to press F2/Del to enter Bios? Tough luck, I smashed the shit out of those keys and still… booted straight into Windows.

You then need to go do some convoluted shits like the Shift + Restart combo to go the Diagnostic screen and restart into Setup page (the Bios).

Wasnt a Republican controlled house propose the one who propose the 22nd ammendment? So after FDR won the 3rd term?

It’s laughable now how a Republicunt President would want to go around this.

That shortcut to switch between different virtual consoles is very useful. If somehow your desktop crashes, this can be used to login and fix.

Any software in Linux can be used in education, as long as the schools invest the time:

• LibreOffice can create really nice documents and presentations too. Heck, some tasks are more straightforward in LibreOffice than MS. 99% of schoolwork is done in Office suite, so this is nice. Win for Linux

• For stuff like coding in C or Python, it is even easier in Linux: download a compiler, open a text editor, type some codes then use terminal to run the codes in 10 minutes. In Windows, you need to download the stupid Cygwin and mess around with environmental variables to get Cygwin to recognize the libraries… Or if you want to automate things, MS Visual Studio will do that. The only downside is you will lose > 10 GB of space. Linux wins here again.

• Anything more advanced will unfortunately Windows land. I’m talking about advanced image programs like Photoshop or professional video apps. But again, if you need them then might as well get a Mac. Another hiccup would be in CAD software: Linux just doesnt have a good app.

Hmm let’s try to isolate the bug to know if it’s sway or gdm messing up:

Try to disable gdm: sudo systemctl disable gdm.service

Logout/restart. You should be at the TTY, enter username and password to login. Then simply type sway

Now, test your sudo commands within this sway session. Do you still get the same bug?

CLI partioning tools are fine, just print the layout before finalizing the changes to make sure.

You know what is scary? Back in like 2009, the graphic drivers are not well supported and so you rum into weird glitches even during a live environment. For my particular case, a live Ubuntu install couldnt display the check boxes correctly. These checkboxes are pretty darn important:

• where you want to install

• do you want to delete your existing partitions? Very bad if you dual boot. …etc…

Cant see shit due to gliches so i just YOLO and hope for the best.

At first, I thought it was 3 point 521 percent because we use “comma” for decimal points and “period” for thousand separators.

Nvm it is over 3000 percents !! Might as try 9999 % and make a meme out of it.

FFS which world lines are we on?

Yeh I started with Fedora 41 on i3 and then did the upgrade to 42. Maybe there are issues during the upgrades? Idk

I just wiped my drive and reinstalled 42 because the issue is so annoying - you cant do shit unless you logout and log back in.

I tried Fedora KDE 42 - very nice but it hang on bootup (30 seconds after login) and randomly on suspend.

Guess I’ll just stick with the official Gnome - Fedora Workstation.

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You literally kill/xkill/killall the program.

So when lid is closed, OS doesnt suspend or takes long to suspend? The best way is to use journalctl. Close the lid, wait 2 - 5 mins, then open it up and check most recent journalctl messages. Hopefully that gives you some clues.

Now, are you dual booting Windows? Try to check Bios if your laptop has any funny settings for power. On Lenovo, there used to be something like “Power scheme for both Linux and Window” button…

Lastly, xfce4-power-manager app really is just a GUI for your core systemd services. So… as a test, can you not autostart it? Xfce has a setting for that. Or just remove it, you can easily install it back later.
Once youre done, reboot back and check:

1. Does closing the lid make the laptop to go into suspend mode? If yes, great. Test again to see if behavior is erratic, i.e. sometimes it takes 5 sec to suspend, sometimes it does not suspend at all…etc.

2. If above fail, try to run “systemctl suspend” to check if suspend really works on your system.

3. if 1) and 2) fail, you can play around with /etc/systemd/sleep.conf script. Maybe uncomment “AllowSuspend” or something similar…

Good ! Good !

I see I have inspired an apprentice: https://lemmy.world/comment/15349991

The only thing missing now is to ditch the desktop environment and run EXWM. Or just run emacs from tty.