Gnome / XFCE adventures

[guybrush]

Hi, I just wanted to share my latest Garuda Gnome / XFCE adventures.

I had been using my work laptop during the weekend and, as usual, I updated all packages through garuda-update. When I booted my laptop this morning, GDM was misbehaving a bit (it showed me a gray screen with volume control and the possibility to shutdown/restart, but no login prompt) and to make matters worse, I was unable to start another TTY in order to investigate or fix the issue.

After a while I decided to use one of the latest ISOs for live boot / rescue purposes. Unfortunately, the largest USB drive I had laying around was a 2GB one, so most ISOs turned out to be too big. XFCE fitted nicely, though. I had to wrestle my BIOS in order to get it to boot from USB, but eventually I succeeded. I must say, I’m impressed with the XFCE edition so far, even though I’ve mainly used it to select an older snapshot through the Snapper tool.

This has been the third time in more than three years that I really needed to rollback, and just like the previous times, it worked like charm. So I’m a happy camper again, and will wait a bit before running garuda-update. I suspect this issue is related to the Gnome 48 update. However, I’m also running the Garuda Gnome edition on my private laptop, and that one is still fine. Perhaps it’s some sort of driver issue, and Asus Zenbooks are a better match than HP ZBooks?

This concludes my Ted Talk, thanks for listening .

[Fenris]

@guybrush

After a while I decided to use one of the latest ISOs for live boot / rescue purposes. Unfortunately, the largest USB drive I had laying around was a 2GB one, so most ISOs turned out to be too big. XFCE fitted nicely, though. I had to wrestle my BIOS in order to get it to boot from USB, but eventually I succeeded. I must say, I’m impressed with the XFCE edition so far, even though I’ve mainly used it to select an older snapshot through the Snapper tool.

XFCE has been around since Linux was first released and you have made the right choice to use it. Its bloat free, can’t be easily defeated, and rarely anything ever seems to go wrong with it. The world would be a better place if it were the only desktop manager everyone ever uses. That or looking into CRT monitors of the late 70ies with retina burning black and green text for everything…programming, emails, games, bulletin board services, Usenet, IRC, and web browsing. Come to think about it, there should only be 1 programming language in the world as well and that’s assembly language