The /dev/sda3 Partion Mystery

[abarbarian]

12 hours ago, wa4chq said:

Hey, I'm retired, so what's the rush, right?

 

No rush at all. I moved five years ago and still have to get one room finished

 

Mind you I have got the horse box(mobile garage) on a solid cemented drive now. So the Royal is now residing undercover. An some of the garden looks very nice indeed.

[wa4chq]

4 hours ago, abarbarian said:

 

No rush at all. I moved five years ago and still have to get one room finished

 

Mind you I have got the horse box(mobile garage) on a solid cemented drive now. So the Royal is now residing undercover. An some of the garden looks very nice indeed.

Excellent!  Happy for the Royal!  I need to plan a garden.  Also the locked door leading out from my kitchen goes to the imaginary deck.  That is one of the projects on the list.   

[wa4chq]

OK...I know this will hard to believe, but I decided mess around again and delete Endeavour and go with Arch.  At some point, I'll switch back to i3wm, but for now I give MATE a go.  Beautiful day down here in Southeast Virginia.  All the best everyone!

Edited December 18, 2024 by wa4chq

[crp]

8 hours ago, wa4chq said:

OK...I know this will hard to believe, but I decided mess around again and delete Endeavour and go with Arch. 

  (one thing i miss from the old, old forum software - it had much better emojis.)

 

[securitybreach]

5 hours ago, crp said:

  (one thing i miss from the old, old forum software - it had much better emojis.)

 

 

Actually the old ones are still all there. I have yet to use one of the newer ones. You have to scroll down to the bottom to get to them.

 

[abarbarian]

16 hours ago, wa4chq said:

OK...I know this will hard to believe, but I decided mess around again and delete Endeavour and go with Arch.  At some point, I'll switch back to i3wm, but for now I give MATE a go.  Beautiful day down here in Southeast Virginia.  All the best everyone!

 

Yeah it is always best to be a purist. Arch all the way.

 

Nice looking mates you have there. Window Maker would be preferred.

[abarbarian]

1 hour ago, securitybreach said:

 

Actually the old ones are still all there. I have yet to use one of the newer ones. You have to scroll down to the bottom to get to them.

 

 

I can only see half of them, the rest are just text and things.

[securitybreach]

3 minutes ago, abarbarian said:

 

I can only see half of them, the rest are just text and things.

 

That's odd. Perhaps its one of your extensions blocking them.

[securitybreach]

Odd, it takes a second for the bottom ones to render.

[securitybreach]

6 minutes ago, abarbarian said:

 

Yeah it is always best to be a purist. Arch all the way.

 

Yup, always best...

[wa4chq]

7 hours ago, crp said:

  (one thing i miss from the old, old forum software - it had much better emojis.)

 

Was that back in the '40's?        

Edited December 19, 2024 by wa4chq

[wa4chq]

37 minutes ago, abarbarian said:

 

Yeah it is always best to be a purist. Arch all the way.

 

Nice looking mates you have there. Window Maker would be preferred.

Thanks AB.  The Arch install reminded me of when I installed and used Slack back in the day, except Arch is much easier...lol.  I like the fact that you configure it the way you want, without all of the extra sh*te that you never use.  Regarding WindowMaker....I'm more into window shopping...lol.  The three ladies are from the Mexican band "The Warning".  Pretty good musicians....and I'm definitely keeping my eyes on them 

Edited December 19, 2024 by wa4chq

[securitybreach]

58 minutes ago, wa4chq said:

The Arch install reminded me of when I installed and used Slack back in the day, except Arch is much easier...lol.  

 

So I actually used Slackware for 10 years before Arch. I switched to Arch originally as it was basically like Slackware but with binaries. I fought deps for a decade prior almost daily trying to build Slackware packages. At the time, Slackware didn't offer any other ways to update/install packages. That was back when Arch used rc.conf file for services and such before SystemD 5 years later. That was the one transition that broke most people's installations.

[wa4chq]

3 minutes ago, securitybreach said:

 

So I actually used Slackware for 10 years before Arch. I switched to Arch originally as it was basically like Slackware but with binaries. I fought deps for a decade prior almost daily trying to build Slackware packages. At the time, Slackware didn't offer any other ways to update/install packages. That was back when Arch used rc.conf file for services and such before SystemD 5 years later. That was the one transition that broke most people's installations.

I just remember 'xf86config' and spending hours setting it up....and then on to 'pppsetup'... I basically started my Linux adventure using Slack....I loaded it onto an ancient Toshiba Satellite laptop. 

I ended up really getting into it.  I think the first serious Slack install to a destop was on a tower I put together and that was with Slack 9.  Used it for years.  I don't use that tower now...have an issue with the graphix card but I have the old HD's.  

[securitybreach]

Nice

 

I had to recompile the kernel to get wifi back in the day. It was a pain in the arse.

[securitybreach]

Funny enough, mine was also on a Toshiba Satellite 1000 something.

[securitybreach]

Here was mine (on the left)

 

[wa4chq]

1 minute ago, securitybreach said:

Nice

 

I had to recompile the kernel to get wifi back in the day. It was a pain in the arse.

The only time I recompiled a kernel was when I tried Debian Woody.  Someone gave me the disks.....for some reason I had read about how a custom kernel would run faster, so I gave it a go.  I'm not sure how long it took but when I got to the end and hit the last "OK", nothing broke.  I'm not sure if it was faster, but after spending all that time I convinced myself that it was blazing fast...lol

[wa4chq]

Just now, securitybreach said:

Here was mine (on the left)

 

Sweet!  Modern lappy there on the left!  Arch screensaver in the middle?  Cmatrix on the right?...

[securitybreach]

16 minutes ago, wa4chq said:

Sweet!  Modern lappy there on the left!  Arch screensaver in the middle?  Cmatrix on the right?...

 

Those have all bitten the dust. I do have the middle one still but I do not use it as I have much newer laptops.

 

[securitybreach]

53 minutes ago, wa4chq said:

Sweet!  Modern lappy there on the left!  Arch screensaver in the middle?  Cmatrix on the right?...

 

Yup

[securitybreach]

Actually the middle one is showing the wallpaper

[abarbarian]

4 hours ago, securitybreach said:

 

That's odd. Perhaps its one of your extensions blocking them.

 

I get the same thing no matter which browser I use so I doubt it is an extension. 

[securitybreach]

7 hours ago, abarbarian said:

 

I get the same thing no matter which browser I use so I doubt it is an extension. 

 

Don't know then