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- Comment on Debian /boot is full - LVM complicating resizing the partition 2 days ago:
It doesn’t, moving it to the end of the disk is a fairly common workaround for this specific issue. UEFI only looks for a GPT partition table and a partition within it with the UUID that corresponds to the EFI System Partition (ESP) type with a supported filesystem on it. The filesystem in question is implementation dependent, but FAT32 is guaranteed to be supported so most go with that. Apple’s firmwares can also do HFS+ (and APFS?). More advanced firmwares also let the user add their own drivers, in which case as long as you can find a driver for it you can use whatever filesystem you want.
It is common however to do so, out of convenience. Usually it’s other partitions you want to resize, and when imagine to a new bigger disk (or cloud environments where the disk can be any size and the OS resizes itself to fit on boot), then growing the OS partition is a lot easier. But the UEFI spec doesn’t care at all, some firmwares will even accept multiple ESPs on the same disk.
- Comment on Debian /boot is full - LVM complicating resizing the partition 2 days ago:
It’s the boot partition, it needs to be a plain partition formatted as FAT32.
That said you could also just make a new one, copy the data over and delete the old one once verified the data’s all good.
I wouldn’t do it with a larger partition but these days moving a 500MB partition takes a couple seconds top even on spinning rust, and it’s a boot partition so it’s kind of whatever. Very low risk overall, and everything on it can be reinstalled and regenerated easily.
- Comment on Debian /boot is full - LVM complicating resizing the partition 2 days ago:
You can move the partition at the end of the disk where OP has 1.5 GB of free space. It’ll leave a 500MB gap before the LVM but it is what it is.
- Comment on Does anybody know how to change scroll speed? 4 months ago:
I found this AUR package based on this discussion
- Comment on Does anybody know how to change scroll speed? 4 months ago:
You can’t configure it but there’s patches around where you can hardcode a modifier with very minor side effects.
The thing with Wayland, and things like libinput, is that it wants to give the compositor a lot of power and hopefully enable more things, so there’s not one implementation like Xorg that you’re just stuck with what it provides. The compositor knows more about what’s going on, and the application even more so. So in theory you can have all sorts of inertia curves. But in the meantime we have this silly situation, where you can’t even adjust it at all.
- Comment on Does anybody know how to change scroll speed? 4 months ago:
It’s right there in the settings in KDE, so I imagine it’s one of those type settings Gnome deems not worthy of being configurable and you should use it at the speed they deemed is correct.
Unfortunately that’s something the compositor has to handle, so unless there’s a hidden setting with
gsettingssomewhere you’re out of luck. - Comment on Why install other Linux ISOs on Steam Deck? 7 months ago:
Because you can, pretty much.
That’s the nice thing with an open platform like that, everyone can make another just as good. Valve did a great job making it good and reliable for the average gamer, but it’s also just a PC. A PC made to run Linux. There’s no reason you can’t… just install another distro, replicate some of the configurations, and run your favorite distro on it!
And it’s good, people experiment and make cool mods and tweaks. Valve has taken a lot of things the community did to their deck and made it an official feature because it’s cool and fun. People make cool themes, they figure out how to make some games work.
It’s just like any other Linux distro choice: which one do you vibe the best with for what you want to do on it. For some people that’s a handheld console that just works and plays your games and runs SteamOS.
- Comment on Debating a GPU upgrade. Looking for input from those running an Arc A770/ 8 months ago:
For the driver quality issues, make sure to filter out Windows vs Linux reviews. Intel has historically been way better under Linux than Windows, and they use translation layers under the hood on Windows which is something we’re used to on Linux. I heard it’s a bit better on Linux.
Kinda like Windows vs Linux for AMD cards, sometimes it’s just better on Linux. Only NVIDIA have mostly identical drivers for both platforms and thus is about on-par with performance and stability.
- Comment on looking for a dock that let's me connect my DVI monitor 8 months ago:
Simple passive HDMI to DVI-D single link should work for this monitor.
HDMI 1.0 and DVI-D Single Link are electrically identical, so they just work.
It starts getting messy when literally everything else. HDMI to DVI-I (analog) is a no go without an active adapter, because HDMI simply doesn’t have analog signals so it’s got to be converted. Similarly, 1440p over DVI requires DVI-D Dual-Link which is also a no go without an active adapter.
My experience with my expensive DP to DVI-D DL has been poor and full of desyncs. DisplayPort is a packet-based protocol and apparently my Vega 64 has its timings just ever so slightly off and I get rolling black lines and artifacts. Fine on NVIDIA though, but my 1060 had native DVI so useless. I would avoid going through DP if you’re going to DVI.
Another thing with DisplayPort to HDMI: passive cables rely entirely on the source to be smart and be able to switch the wire protocol to HDMI. Not all devices and GPUs support that.
But, for your use case a simple passive HDMI to DVI-D SL should work fine.
- Comment on i just bought a steam deck lcd, and now there's an oled model? wtf valve. 1 year ago:
That’s kind of the point. It’s a refresh not a Steam Deck v2. Their intention is not to have everyone replace their deck or make existing users feel like they got the old, bad ones.
It’s a refresh, shows that Valve is still committed to the Deck, and also sets some expectations for when the Deck 2 comes. And some perks for those that really want a nicer screen and faster WiFi.
- Comment on Are there any fixes for the USB dropout on high load? 1 year ago:
Is it a powered hub? I don’t have a Deck yet, but it sounds like it might hit some power limits and disconnect USB devices as a result.
Have you tried limiting the power the CPU/GPU can use and see if the disconnects still occur?
