Manjaro and BOINC have had a troubled relationship over the years. Perhaps you read my previous post on this matter. The machine I’m using today is an HP EliteDesk G2. You will notice I’m using the built in Intel graphics so we won’t have any NVIDIA issues to deal with. Later I may stick in a NVIDIA NVS 310 Quadro and experiment with the Hybrid driver. It’s an interesting concept, but a diversion for this … Manjaro 5.15 LTS and BOINCRead more
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Manjaro XFCE Desktop Goes Away
Don’t you just hate it when your desktop goes away? You are toggling between the three-twelve systems you have hooked up to your dual monitor KVM and the one system you really need to use decides to turn off the desktop and displays. I ran into this in issue with Manjaro XFCE. Really annoying. Did some digging. Found out this problem is really tied to Linux kernels 5.10 LTS and beyond. Lots of reports 5.13 … Manjaro XFCE Desktop Goes AwayRead more
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Why Manjaro is Taking Over
I’ve written about Manjaro many times on this blog. Other than a lack of testing with NVidia cards/drivers, it’s hard to find fault with this distro. They are definitely doing a better job than Canonical with Ubuntu. I had made my peace with the poor performance of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, believing it a price worth paying for the embedded systems development support. Testing out 22.04 changed all of that. Granted my machines are a long … Why Manjaro is Taking OverRead more
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PageEdit – BlueGriffin
PageEdit is a true pleasure for editing html files that will be use for things like online documentation or even in-app help. For many years I used BlueGriffon but the last update of that was 2019 and some Linux distros have dropped inclusion. Technically they only supported Ubuntu, but AUR had a build as did other places. Given Ubuntu’s massive bloat and sluggish performance since the 20.04 release (getting far worse with 22.04) people are … PageEdit – BlueGriffinRead more
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So, Did Manjaro Quit Working for You Today?
Manjaro quit working today, but it is Friday. Did I deploy my tried and true embedded systems root cause analysis skills? Hell no! It’s Friday and it was working before I turned it off to connect it to a KVM. All I was doing was bringing one other machine back on-line because that client had more work for me. I dutifully powered off the 6-core AMD and cabled everything up through the dual monitor KVM. … So, Did Manjaro Quit Working for You Today?Read more