So... what's #ArchLinux's "official" tool to get a graphical boot with a nice password prompt for luks devices?
And what's #Manjaro using?
I'm tired of seeing a mostly empty black screen when booting #ArchLinux, but Plymouth is in AUR, and I don't want to depend on AUR for something as critical as, you know, booting the system!
The #Tor network needs some form of distributed consensus, but it's not a blockchain.
Could someone please ELI5 how it works, and particularly how it avoids being subverted by a single actor who owns many IPs?
Looks like traffic on the #Tor network has been growing...
https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html?start=2010-05-17&end=2022-08-15
Desktop Environments preferred by various distributions, over time:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/wmkxqy/desktop_environments_preferred_by_various/
#KDE #GNOME #Xfce
I now use the latest nvmutil, to set *random* MAC addresses on every laptop I sell!
I sell ThinkPads with coreboot and Debian Linux on my store: https://minifree.org
Coreboot replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI boot firmware giving you more secure control of your boot experience.
I wrote nvmutil myself, recently, to replace an older tool that I wrote before. One of its main benefits is that it can set random MAC addresses, hardcoded in the flash. This is the "default" MAC address, for your NIC.
@codewiz another good information: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Deep-Color-30-bit-August
If you have to compile C++ code, do it on a desktop with lots of fast cores. Keep in mind that modern Intel CPUs come with two kinds of cores: P (performance) and E (efficient, but slower).
My #System76 Lemur Pro has 10 cores, but only two of them are P 😅
The older Thinkpad X1 had a 10th generation Intel CPU with 6 cores (12 threads), but they're evidently much slower, at least when compiling LLVM.
Meanwhile, my benchmark results are ready to analyze:
https://tinyurl.com/lemp11-vs-x1g7
It's a compute benchmark between 3 Linux machines:
#System76 lemp11
Lemur Pro i7-1255U
Pop!_OS 22.04
Giskard, my old laptop
Thinkpad X1G7 i7-10710U
Fedora 36
Goreboot, a mid-end desktop
MSI Z690-A DDR5 i7-12700F
Radeon RX Vega 64
Arch Linux, btw