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Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!

Anyways: I primarily use Gentoo Linux.

I have two headless servers: a Raspberry Pi 4B and a Oracle cloud VM (free tier). Both running OpenRC, and both were running mainline kernel with custom config (I recently switched the Pi to PiFoundation kernel due to some issues). The raspberry pi boots from SSD and has no sd card inserted.

Both servers were running musl libc instead of glibc for a while. This gave me a couple of random issues, but eventually I got tired and switched back to glibc.

I have a desktop running gentoo and a laptop running arch, but hoping to switch the laptop to gentoo soon.

Both are daily driving wayland (the desktop had nvidia card and used for gaming). The desktop is running a kernel with a minimal config that compiles in 2-3 minutes.

What's your unusual setup like?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nixos with xmonad and with xfce in no-desktop mode. Xfce gives me monitor positioning since I have two monitors and one is vertical. On a desktop, and on two laptops. Oh and I swapped my esc and capslock keys. Crazy I know.

Also I have nixos on my pinephone, ha. But I don't use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was unaware of no desktop mode, I'm using dwm but I find occasionally if a monitor gets jostled it will lose the input. Going back to login screen on my work PC fixes the problem but on dwm only it's a reboot. I suppose this allows fixing that problem...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My old procedure with the monitors, pre xfce, was an xrandr script. But I didn't bother with positioning so the mouse goes straight across going from one monitor to another... you can probably do it but that was enough xrandr for me.

xfce-no-desktop also gives me media keys, although the audio keys are broken in pipewire now. At least screen dimming keys work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah I run an xrandr profile generated by arandr. It just seems really brittle. My monitor is also my kvm switch between machines so there's a lot of input swapping and it doesn't always behave.