It’s like people are just now noticing that they have zero ability to control their own digital lives because they traded it all away in order to not have to take the time to learn how to do things for themselves.
not trying to be rude, but it’s easy to get tunnel vision especially with tech spaces. before becoming involved in tech i had no idea that linux was even a thing. most of these people need education, they just didn’t know their options. they didn’t “choose” to throw away their rights because they didn’t know they had a choice.
I have been offering 1:1 chats on signal to anyone who wants help switching to Linux.
Asking questions in forums and social media is intimidating. I despise the snobbery that often represents this community. I just want to help people regain some control over their digital lives.
Or raising the polling rate of USB mice above 10 Hz (as in ten - that’s not a typo).
I don’t know the answer, but I’m interested, what do you use that for?
Fortunately, copying or moving more than 1 GB to or from USB sticks without crashing the entire machine (no matter if NTFS or ExFAT) was solved last year, probably because of a kernel update.
I believe it has a lot to do with the default amount of dirty memory. dirty memory is mostly the write cache, which is unnecessary to have a lot of, as that does not improve anything after a certain point, but at best it can mislead you to believe that a copy opetation started with 200 MB/s and that it finished when it actually did not yet.
you can fix these limits with sysctl files. they are loaded on boot on typical systemd systems. suggestions are in the manjaro post, relevant for any desktop linux system.
maybe it’s worth to set these up even if you are good for now. It’s good to hear a kernel change could have fixed it though. maybe they have finally revised the defaults, they wanted to do that for a few years now…
I will have a look, didn’t even know about kernel.org, nobody before you mentioned it.
its mostly developer documentation about programming APIs, but there’s also admin docs, not only at the admin-guide pages.
if the script would get executed whenever I start the machine or go out of standby. Which is not the case, sometimes it just doesn’t happen and I have to do it manually.
what is its current trigger?
if yours is a systemd based system, it’s often recommended to make a service unit file for the script, like this:
[Unit]Name=restore gamma on resume
WantedBy=sleep.target
[Service]After=sleep.target
Exec=/usr/local/bin/yourscript.sh
save this in /etc/systemd/system/gammasleep.service (runs services as root), and run systemctl daemon-reload for it to notice the new file. systemctl enable --now to start it and make it autostarted on boot.
I have written this from memory on phone, so it might need corrections, but this is basically it, plus edit the exec line.
docs is in man systemd.service, man systemd.unit. man systemd.directives tells you which man page documents a specific key.
you can check logs with journalctl -u gammasleep.service. an f gives you a running log with shorter history.
probably I could have written all of this after you confirmed you did not use a systemd service yet…
It’s all those little inconvenient and unreliable things that keep me from using Linux for anything that goes beyond browsing the web or doing office stuff
oh I felt the same when I first tried to switch to linux on my main desktop. everything was inconvenient without my usual tools and the system was breaking down from time to time. I got burned out, 2 years later I retried and now I haven’t gone back to the windows install for months, and there’s not much problems now. probably I was being clumsy and doing things the wrong way 2 years ago, but it’s hard to tell because I don’t remember.
Up until now, we’ve been hiding it in wikis and books, where we know nobody will look. 😂
There are some user friendly distributions, but even they will be uncomfortable and frustrating to use when you’re new.
Having to relearn how to use a computer is daunting for people. It’s a lot easier to just touch an app and have the instant gratification.
The point of all of these apps and services is to get people dependent on them so that they’re unwilling to leave because the alternative requires effort. I don’t know that Linux, as a whole, can ever be that user friendly. But, eventually some people will be tired of being squeezed for cash and spyed on just to save a few weeks of reading and learning.
You can on Linux just saying
It’s like people are just now noticing that they have zero ability to control their own digital lives because they traded it all away in order to not have to take the time to learn how to do things for themselves.
not trying to be rude, but it’s easy to get tunnel vision especially with tech spaces. before becoming involved in tech i had no idea that linux was even a thing. most of these people need education, they just didn’t know their options. they didn’t “choose” to throw away their rights because they didn’t know they had a choice.
We all need to make what we know freely available in a friendly manner to make the path to Linux easier and more fun.
I have been offering 1:1 chats on signal to anyone who wants help switching to Linux.
Asking questions in forums and social media is intimidating. I despise the snobbery that often represents this community. I just want to help people regain some control over their digital lives.
Man you are doing <insert deity>'s work there
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Sent you a DM, Interested to hear more about these problems!
I don’t know the answer, but I’m interested, what do you use that for?
I believe it has a lot to do with the default amount of dirty memory. dirty memory is mostly the write cache, which is unnecessary to have a lot of, as that does not improve anything after a certain point, but at best it can mislead you to believe that a copy opetation started with 200 MB/s and that it finished when it actually did not yet.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220828115647/https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/decrease-dirty-bytes-for-more-reliable-usb-transfer/62513
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.html
you can fix these limits with sysctl files. they are loaded on boot on typical systemd systems. suggestions are in the manjaro post, relevant for any desktop linux system.
maybe it’s worth to set these up even if you are good for now. It’s good to hear a kernel change could have fixed it though. maybe they have finally revised the defaults, they wanted to do that for a few years now…
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its mostly developer documentation about programming APIs, but there’s also admin docs, not only at the admin-guide pages.
what is its current trigger?
if yours is a systemd based system, it’s often recommended to make a service unit file for the script, like this:
[Unit] Name=restore gamma on resume WantedBy=sleep.target [Service] After=sleep.target Exec=/usr/local/bin/yourscript.shsave this in /etc/systemd/system/gammasleep.service (runs services as root), and run systemctl daemon-reload for it to notice the new file. systemctl enable --now to start it and make it autostarted on boot.
I have written this from memory on phone, so it might need corrections, but this is basically it, plus edit the exec line. docs is in man systemd.service, man systemd.unit. man systemd.directives tells you which man page documents a specific key.
you can check logs with journalctl -u gammasleep.service. an f gives you a running log with shorter history.
probably I could have written all of this after you confirmed you did not use a systemd service yet…
oh I felt the same when I first tried to switch to linux on my main desktop. everything was inconvenient without my usual tools and the system was breaking down from time to time. I got burned out, 2 years later I retried and now I haven’t gone back to the windows install for months, and there’s not much problems now. probably I was being clumsy and doing things the wrong way 2 years ago, but it’s hard to tell because I don’t remember.
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Up until now, we’ve been hiding it in wikis and books, where we know nobody will look. 😂
There are some user friendly distributions, but even they will be uncomfortable and frustrating to use when you’re new.
Having to relearn how to use a computer is daunting for people. It’s a lot easier to just touch an app and have the instant gratification.
The point of all of these apps and services is to get people dependent on them so that they’re unwilling to leave because the alternative requires effort. I don’t know that Linux, as a whole, can ever be that user friendly. But, eventually some people will be tired of being squeezed for cash and spyed on just to save a few weeks of reading and learning.