I tested installing some web browers, kdenlive, yuzu and libreoffice and without knowing I ended up with 3 different runtimes and the total storage usage (with deduplication) was 4.79 GIB.

Meanwhile with 33 appimages that I have (which includes same flatpak apps I mentioned) are using 2.2 GiB.

It doesn't matter if they share if in the end they end up using several times more storage than the appimage equivalent.

Isn't the gnome runtime alone 2GiB? You know how many appimages that is?

Not to mention you are unlikely to only use one runtime.

I want to know what conky did to get in this list lol

I'm pretty sure sbin originally meant static binaries and not system binaries lol

it may have the same problem.

It actually doesn't! it works thank you!

Btw when I have multiple tabs on the vomnibar, if I scroll down the list using the arrow keys it doesn't change to the next page, I instead have to use the mouse wheel to move to the next page, is there a way I can fix that?

Is there an easy way to migrate my vimium conf to it?

Also are you sure that it displays the page icon in the active tabs menu?

posix sh + awk for manipulating data?

It makes me mad to see the current state sway is in, I even bought an AMD GPU for nothing.

Test adding the preferences page to "excluded URLs" in the settings of vimium.

Vimium.

PWA ffs

I really don't know lol

Increasing the max_map_count is needed for some Steam games, iirc Arch is now dong this by default.

iirc the dirty_bytes settings prevent the system from hanging if there is too much disk IO

And setting transparent_hugepages to madvise was something I did when archlinux had this bug in the kernel: https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1atueo0/higher_ram_usage_since_kernel_67_and_the_solution/

It was eventually fixed but I later ran into the issue again and I decided to keep it on madvise.

Here is what I ended up using for my sysctl conf, iirc I got some of these from popos default config:

vm.swappiness = 180
vm.page-cluster = 0
vm.watermark_boost_factor = 0
vm.watermark_scale_factor = 125
vm.dirty_bytes = 268435456
vm.dirty_background_bytes = 134217728
vm.max_map_count = 2147483642
vm.dirtytime_expire_seconds = 1800
vm.transparent_hugepages = madvise

nvm I just noticed that the issue is that I had the gcompat package installed in alpine, which fixes that issue you just had, I don't know if chimera has something similar to it.

That's interesting that it doesn't work, iirc the biggest difference of chimera is that it uses musl like alpine does.

Can you extract the appimage with --appimage-extract flag and run the AppRun that's inside of it directly? Or that also fails?

Isn't lite-xl in your distro repo?

Manjaro: Lots of criticism from others, ironically ran 2 years without major issues. But I wanted to switch to btrfs and EOS was hyped up to be a better version of a simple Arch installation.

I had a similar story, in fact EOS has a problem that they use dracut by default and is set to overwrite the kernel parameters every time you update the system lol.

I'm very sorry you had to deal with some users from here btw, specially the nixos people.

You likely saw this already, but if you haven't: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/mzun99/new_zram_tuning_benchmarks/

I use lite-xl, it has been very good, but I'm not a Go developer though.

They also release an appimage and I just did a quick test on a alpine container and it works, so it should work on Chimera as well.

Venezuela has been a target of US diplomatic aggression since they nationalized their oil.

Since 1976? Venezuela's oil was nationalized by Rafael Caldera in that year.

And yes that Rafael Caldera, the guy Chavez tried to overthrow lmao.

I will just leave mine here as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhZ_HnqkJoo

would you suggest XDG or creating Symlinks?

You can do both, and both are easy.

The user-dirs.dirs file contains something like this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

For example if you mount the disk in /media/dirname, it would be something like this, I'm giving it a external-drive name in this example:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/media/external-drive/Desktop"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/media/external-drive/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/media/external-drive/Downloads"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/media/external-drive/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/media/external-drive/Pictures"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="/media/external-drive/Public"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="/media/external-drive/Templates"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/media/external-drive/Videos"

And for the symlinks, if the drive already has the Desktop, Documents, etc directories. It is as simple as this:

ln -s /media/external-drive/* $HOME

That will symlink all the files in the drive to your $HOME

I suggest you do both because you might run into a program that doesn't follow XDG user directories.

If you want my answer, this video sums it up pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qCqRTEVz0

More recently fedora pulled this move which causes headaches to everyone: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/issues/661

To this day I notice that there is some skepticism with Btrfs, and I think it is because fedora also pushed it early.

Btrfs snapshots made me stop using ext4 all together.

Folders? you mean directories 👀

Mount the disk (if you ask me at /media/nameofdir) and configure ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs (99% of that time that would be the .config dir in your home lol) and define each XDG_***_DIR= to the respective directory in the path of the mounted disk, no need to make symlinks, though you might need to because there is likely many apps that don't follow xdg specs.

I would really appreciate a GUI way

I know gnome-disks has a GUI way to change the mount options, I don't know how good it is though.

Introducing openSUSA

A month ago or so to be able to use zramen without root password.

I have /tmp in my fstab with these mount options.

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,noatime,size=20G 0 0

And the rest of the setup is done in my zprofile

It's empty lol, it's a directory on tmpfs that i use to build programs and similar stuff to not be hammering my ssd with unnecessary writes.

I have $XDG_CACHE_HOME in tmp as well and I moved the mesa sharer caches to $XDG_STATE_HOME as that's really the only thing so far I've needed to preserve.

thunar (and the smaller window is the xfce4-terminal).

zsh is actually easy and it is detailed in the archwiki

You have to set $ZDOTDIR in /etc/zsh/zshenv and iirc that was the only location that required root to edit.

For the rest of stuff, here is how I fix steam for example and you can check the rest of my dotfiles for how I configured zsh and all of that.

Although I haven't updated them, I still had a .local directory back then, it was 1 week ago that I changed .local for Local and that let to an issue with distrobox which I made a PR fixing it that's still open though.

ls -A | grep "^\."

I had to make a dummy .dotfile to test because I don't have hidden files in my home.

Shameless flex

Speaking of doas, is there any advantage of using it when… sudo is still available to be used?

I like that its configuration file is very very simple.

Thank you for posting this @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net

I will later see if I can convince the gearlever dev to add aisap support, since that app targets flatpak users.

Also during testing Ivan discovered something interesting in fedora, sometimes some of the xdg-user-dirs variable for some reason were being defined as $HOME/ with a trailing slash instead of $HOME/Scrivania (desktop) for example, even though they were clearly defined in the conf file of xdg-user-dirs.

am has a check in the sandbox script that unsets these variables and makes aisap use their default location when that happens to prevent giving full access to $HOME, I don't know if flatpak has similar measures in place.

Yeah I meant this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin

Alpine still keeps /bin and /usr/bin separated.

And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.

https://github.com/mgord9518/aisap/blob/main/profiles/profile_database.json

Very interesting tool. So this is for appimages but also binaries?

Anything portable.

Thats not a sandbox, its a nice wrapper for firejail,

aisap uses bwrap it is mentioned in both links I gave you.

appman used to have firejail sandbox but it was dropped in favor of aisap because of that.

Are all Appimages using that, if not what percentage of the ones you know?

Usually if the appimage has a github release with a zsync you have that verification.

And are tools like Gearlever enforcing or using that signature check?

I don't use gearlever, as far as I know gearlever doesn't even let you sandbox the appimage like AM does. I don't think any of those forces signature verification besides AppImageUpdateTool and that's because that's part of the zsync update process.