Wait. Should you really do pacman -Sy for all of those? Won’t that cause problems? Shouldn’t it just be pacman -S <packages> or go -Syu?
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Wait. Should you really do pacman -Sy for all of those? Won’t that cause problems? Shouldn’t it just be pacman -S <packages> or go -Syu?
Alright, thanks for that. I’ll take a closer look later today when I’m at the PC, but the plan today is to try out different minimal environments to see what I like. And this time I actually remembered to make a Timeshift snapshot ahead of time (my latest one was like a couple of weeks ago)
I’ve been hearing good things about it, makes me wanna try it.
This laptop does have a dedicated GPU and was quite decent for the time. It was my only gaming machine for quite some years. Now I want to keep it alive with Linux for other general uses or work. Said dedicated GPU has been the source of many issues even when it still was under issues. The setup of Intel i5 with integrated graphics + an AMD Radeon GPU is uh… shaky under most driver circumstances and applications never know which of the two to use (usually defaulting to the wrong one)
I’ve been running Wayland to “get used to” the newer technology, and I don’t think that in itself has much impact on performance… Even if I do turn off the effects on KDE, I still feel like it’s doing way way more than I need or want it to do, and it does have a very noticeable impact on the speed things happen. Slightly slower than Cinnamon was, although both are also still way faster than it’s last Windows install… lol
Right now the main “problem” I have is that KDE is handling a few things I want it to handle, and that there’s a lot of applications I installed alongside it that I’d have to remove to swap fully to another DE. Almost makes me think it’d be easier to do another clean Arch install, but that took me almost a week to fully set up. (as I’d start to find the things that I hadn’t yet configured or installed gradually)
I did like the Openbox part of LXQt. Might re-install that.
Yeah I checked it out, it was extremely lightweight, but I didn’t really like how it looked. I know it could be customized but if I was going to take that effort I might as well do it on an Openbox setup.
I’m on XFCE now, really enjoying it, as I should have done from the beginning.