You know, I really hate updates. What I really hate is how the Linux world thinks a major (&)(&*ing change should go in a minor update. Not long ago I wrote this post on getting Manjaro to work with NAS and all was beautiful. Manjaro worked much like other mainstream Linux distros when it came to NAS. Well we can’t have that! One of the more annoying things about Manjaro KDE and NAS is the … Manjaro KDE and NASRead more
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A Faster Hard Drive Makes Your Computer Slower
It sounds like the most counter intuitive statement one could make. A faster hard drive makes your computer slower. If you understand how and why you will understand it is a fact. A faster hard drive really can make your computer slower. This is more fallout from my Manjaro experiments. You really should read the previous post about the resume error on boot to get a full background no how we got here. I’ve always … A Faster Hard Drive Makes Your Computer SlowerRead more
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ERROR: resume: hibernation device not found
You gotta love a cryptic error message during boot like: “ERROR: resume: hibernation device ‘UUID=long number here’ not found.” Love even more the fact you need roughly ten minutes of patience to get past it. The thing about having quite a few machines you experiment with is you stumble across the really stupid stuff. I had stuck a 6Gb/s 1TB drive in this i5 to experiment with Manjaro. Eventually I was going to be building … ERROR: resume: hibernation device not foundRead more
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How to Make Manjaro 20.2 work with NAS
You installed Manjaro because you wanted a modern Linux without Ubuntu bloat. Now you can’t find your NAS.
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Boinc on Majaro
Historically, Boinc on Majaro has been a trail of tears for most users. Most other distros do a fine job of packaging Boinc for their flavor of Linux, but Majaro, not so much. There is always a bunch of manual tasks one has to do to make things actually work. Most of these are cloaked in mystery and most of the Websites you find will have out of date information. Search engines – the last … Boinc on MajaroRead more