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I’m running XFCE (but you could do KDE) on my intel Mac, you can get best of both worlds. I heard silicon is more difficult with Linux tho.

So good. the vatican while loop one was a lot of fun too

A month sounds nice lol.

I think it comes down to use case a lot. I use it (aside for regular reading) for PDFs from school, I can’t risk not having fast transfer of anything they send me or having to use USB to transfer would be tedious. I could use a tablet, but I like reading with a normal lamp and never use backlight. Enough screen time already really.

Also for anyone reading manga having an app means new releases quick!

Battery for a week is pretty good to me. The UI is fine, but as you say that is personal preference. I agree that it is worth mentioning that it is chinese. It is not heavy at all, it is very light.

Android is useful if you don’t want to be tied to a specific store, for being able to read documentation and articles as well as easily getting new books. It is not meant to be used for web browsing or any serious app use, but I disagree that having Android is pointless, as it allows for alternate readers (like Mihon) and getting books from the web.

Onyx Boox are the best imo. I am not sure exactlyabout which the latest model is, mine is a few years old.

Android, has a web browser, file transfer over network. Getting books is very easy and you can even put a library app on there, or any store that is on an app store. But also of course just download from the browser is fine. You should be able to strip drm from current purchases with calibre and then just use the network file transfer and get them on there, for example. There is support for any mayor format, epub, mobi, pdf, cbz…

Battery lasts very long time. Has backlight. Newer models have color but I have not tried those myself.

The reader is awesome and has built in dictionary and translation for individual words. Some basic reading tracking statistics as well. You can of course install any other reader you want from app store or apk.

Thanks that is real helpful! A lot easier than what I had fuzzily in mind

One thing about the thumbdrives, a LOT of features did not work for me when running live bootable, and it almost put me off. Then I made the actuall full install and a lot of the stuff that had not worked now did. Just so people understand the live bootables are very much just a demo, and doesn’t say much about compatibility really.

Nice I didn’t know that ^^ should probably learn at least the basic bash operators, I am just hacking together the different commands I happen to know at the moment really

Edit: why echo instead of printf?

This was causing a lot of issues with newlines, like when I fetched the log to view it my $ was right after the log entry so I switched it back. But it is probably useful in the future to use >> instead :)

Haha thank you. It was hell for a while but eventually it became fun :p learned a lot as well that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise…

Idk if it is normal, maybe not. I do k ow the broadcom issue is tho. And the crashing installers one for example was something I saw a “solution” for by random, when just watching random linux on mba 2012 setup videos to see what I was doing wrong. No other mention anywhere but right in the middle of this video was someone else with the same problem… So it obviously wasn’t just me.

The broadcom chips are largely a goddamn mess apparently. See this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers

But know that this info is not working for me, and I had to use this instead: https://www.thetestspecimen.com/posts/broadcom-wifi-modules-fedora/

I don’t think you will be running into any other issues really but these are INFURIATING when you don’t know where to start. If you decide to go for an intel mac then spend some time looking up the drivers and issues beforehand I think. Also, I went down many rabbitholes because I am new to linux, if you have some experience this probably isn’t that bad idk…

That does sound nice, thank you for the suggestion

Yeah it is like my own small blog and it really helps remembering for me :)

I will look up rsync, I have no proper backup yet except a script that just copies some folders and files that are important…

It is not as cryptic as it sounded I just explained it badly.

Log everything you do in human readable text, because realistically as a beginner going through machine generated logs is not very fun, and .bash_history will be filled with stuff that isn’t relevant always.

It is just a bash script that logs a message with the current date to a file I can access from MacOS as well (on the shared partition) so that I can see what I did if I mess up too bad…

Edit:

Here it is:

# Log argument to changelog.txt with current date and time.

function log()
{
	local changelog="/run/media/jamie/DUAL/changelog"
	local text="$(cat $changelog)" 
	if [ "$1" == "--view" ]; then
		cat $changelog
	else
		printf "$text\n$(date +%D:%H:%M): $1\n" > $changelog
	fi
}

Each line looks like this: 03/16/25:11:49: Running dnf upgrade

I will probably add some stuff so I can get the last 5 lines or something if I want, but at the moment this is really fine.

XFCE is really fast for me as well! I thought I was fine with how slow Catalina was running, and I was but now it is kind of painful when I have to boot back into MacOS and it feels slooow…

Sure like dystopian scifi, but less the 1984-kind and more the Homefront or Hunger Games-kind (the Academy thing gives me real YA novel vibes specifically that whole wave of Hunger Games like scifi).

Hey man, I can quit whenever I like… Just one more draft and I’ll hit the big leagues

MTGA. Lots of fun.