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Several days without full focus, much, much more researching on new problems I wasn't even aware of, multiplied by having an atomic distro, and having the blasted thing bite me again, on my wrist vein, as well as discovering that I'm missing display and storage cables — but my computer is finally built.

...now I have to do the same to my old PC lying in pieces to turn it into a NAS

..aaAAH-

Mmk, a few days later with Kinoite and I'm starting to sour

The provided environment to install non-sandboxed packages seems to be a Fedora/RHEL specific...worse version of distrobox, without a viable option to change hardcoded links to your $HOME directory.

...shit, am I really going to try to install valve-style immutable Arch??

https://pawb.fun/@LiquidParasyte/113738700008490901

I got a Huion Kamvas 13 for a drawing tablet

• + included drivers in the kernel + KDE management baked in
• - the driver only controls 7 keys when then tablet has 8
• --- the tablet doesn't have multitouch

I didn't realize how much I needed multitouch to manipulate drawing tools and canvases

reads articles

"Distrobox is a tool that allows you to create and manage container-based development environments without root privileges."

...

"As a project, it is inspired by Container Toolbx (all the props to them!),"

"inspired by Container Toolbx"

...so distrobox came after toolbx, but toolbox remains as the more limited Fedora flavor of the container manager

Procrastination, thou foul demon

This is not the time for me to be finding so many nits to pick with my Linux distro, and yet

- Filelight, the very nice drive data visualizer, doesn't work on my root partition in this install of Fedora Atomic, only /home and lower. Which is kind of a problem as my home is only like 5-10 GB and there's nearly 100GB used on this encrypted volume already

- apparently as of 2 or 3 versions ago, hibernate on #Fedora is just ...broken, because it does not play well with Secure Boot, especially with encrypted volumes. You can effectively pick either Secure Boot and encrypted boot drives, or working hibernate, or a secret third way that may or may not work if you do it manually. Ugh.

- apparently Virt-Manager Flatpak isn't sufficient enough to make VMs, which I suddenly need to finish moving my Windows data over/handle my transition. There's apparently like 3-4 different ways to install virtualization utils but I just YOLO'd and used RPM-ostree, the thing many people say to avoid

finally, I got Virt-Manager to get the virtualization libraries up

ooh, I can add my physical GPU directly to the VM config. Let's see how this works

plasma crashes as I've done the virtual equivalent of ripping my GPU out of the running computer

woops

Well, it kinda works! Kinda

Still has the windows generic display driver, so I gotta install the amd drivers ... but adrenalin doesn't want to work

Gave it roughly half my ram and the whole original drive....but the VM is basically choking (and sending my fans into overdrive...)

Ok, finally, we have wifi

500 notifications and updates later

Oh hey, windows finally found the display driver

Ok, I have my Windows install working again, time to crack at those TikTok links before—

reads timeline

...the app gets banned

Something to look into later — how exactly does CPU topology in KVM work? I want to crave out 8 of my physical processor's threads to put in the VM, but after booting it up it only sees 4.

If I try to mimic a physical 4 core/8 thread chip with in manual topology, it demands I feed it 32 vCPU cores.

So uh

GPU passthrough isn't as simple as I thought it might be

Even though sending the PCIe bus my discrete card is attached to through QEMU removes it from my Linux session... That doesn't mean Windows actually properly accepts it (lots of code 35 and 28s)

Turning off the VM also doesn't magically make the card come back either

Also sometimes the card freaks out and spins all its fans at full throttle

So yeah
Work in progress

Bleh

I'm trying to write a custom CPU config for KVM that will be subtle enough to not give away that I'm using a VM but also close enough that my install won't freak out when booting baremetal

But

AMD didn't make any 4c/8t chips in the same Zen 4 family that they did for all the dedicated desktop chips

Those are all in Raphael, what I'd have to go to for 8 threads is a Phoenix APU
So even if nosy ass anticheat software didn't freak out in QEMU mode
They sure as hell will when they see my CPU change so rapidly

ah, an actual sign of good news for once

just giving Steam flatpak permissions to the external drive and restarting works perfectly fine
now my NTFS drive i dedicated entirely to demos is ready to go, like nothing ever happened

It's going to be a bit annoying if I have to do this with every drive I want to plug into steam, but it's nice to know that once that happens, it should be great

...which means this post a month or so back about it not working just means that the Steam Deck client is broken for some reason (probably mounting permissions)

https://pawb.fun/@LiquidParasyte/113625529906806616

More good news: Vivaldi fixed the 'Send tab to devices' sync that was in Chromium but broke for some reason a while ago

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-1/#:~:text=Seamless%20Sharing%20with,on%20January%2030.

Something that would be really nice to add to #KDE and Kinoite is a section in Application Permissions for managing #AppImages

Basically everything they do for #Flatpak but in AppImage terms. Gear Level essentially. They already have a (imo superfluous) subsection for X11, let's expand it while we're at it

No they aren't exactly sandboxed the way Flatpaks are so the perms might not work the same, but an integrated menu to manage them would go a long way.
More integrations for managing packages of all types would be good actually

I want to right click a desktop shortcut to a flatpak, appimage or snap and get a menu that links to the Permissions page

I want to open the Permissions page and get an About info screen and a 1-click uninstall button instead of sending me to Discover. Why are you sending me to Discover? What if its not listed in Discover?

I want to double click an RPM, DEB or .desktop and have that give me options for installing that to my native package store, distro/toolbox or rpm-ostree

eheh

Well

I may have an answer to why my top menus were vanishing

Y'see, I completely forgor that I added a Global Menu to my desktop panels, which will tell all applications that respect its presence (likely to be native and AppImages, but less often Flatpaks) to smack its menu bars up there.

The thing is, since I set that panel up on a third monitor and now I just have two, I forgot all about it. ...But KDE didn't. Kinda wish there was an indicator that KDE was doing that.

Something to keep in mind if you're wondering why your menu's are missing!

https://pawb.fun/@LiquidParasyte/113879147725398693

A link explaining how I realized this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=268786

If you have an unexplained janky behavior, check the panels that your Plasma has in reserve - it saves the settings for monitors you've previously had set up, even if they're disconnected.

Go to Edit Mode > Panels and Desktop Management and see what's going on in there, and maybe delete old desktops if they're causing problems.

has problems with rpm-ostree
Weird issues with drives auto mounting
Eventually gives up immutable Fedora and switched to Arch

this is almost beat for beat my gripes with my distro

ughhhhhhhhhh I don't wanna switch to Arch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbvmtnWe2cw

Me: rpm-ostree, where's my application?
rpm: it's in opt where I left it
Me: but your .desktop file doesn't work
rpm: you can even -ql me, that's where I put everything, i don't know anything else
goes to /opt/app_name
Me: ...
Me: There's only a single folder here with a random file from some other hairbrained scheme I did
rpm: that's not a me problem
Me:
Me: ok, whatever, plese just reinstall the thing
rpm: you're gonna have to uninstall and relayer that first bud
Me: aAA-