Best bet when installing a second OS is to MANUALLY partition, select the existing fat-32 efi partition for efi, write the boot block to the drive you’re going to boot off of, and choose free space for the remaining required partitions.
Put them wherever you want, don’t let Poettering dictate what you do with YOUR system. It is better NOT to put them in system directories since those will get overwritten by upgrades.
By the way, no different for Linux, if you boot off of USB you can mount partitions and access anything if not encrypted and linux windows, encryption is not the default.
A secure future proof Whenblows 11 is akin to a healthy wealthy fentynal addict.
I don’t like it, too much desk space wasted on useless crapola. I use Mate, a nice clean desktop with a simple pull-down menu leaving the majority of the space free for work.
@DigDoug @sparkle_matrix_x0x I have differing partition schemes on different machines depending upon their function. On my workstation I have four partitions, a root partition which is on SSD and all the system binaries and files reside there, a /home partition which is on rotary media because speed is less critical space more so, and a backup drive which keeps compressed copies of the /home and /root partitions. On my servers mostly everything is RAID and it’s much more complex and varies according to the function of a particular server.
@Aatube @LordKitsuna @Tea There are some things I’d like pacman to do automagically that it doesn’t, like update the list of archives when they change. Tried to install a package the other day and it kept throwing 404 errors because I had a stale list of archive sites. It didn’t tell me that, it didn’t fix it automatically.
What Linux distro are you using? To make it not erase the Windows boot manager from the EFI partition simply manually partition, and do NOT mark the EFI partition for formatting, then Linux will add it’s own but NOT erase Windows.
I’ve had Windows and Linux installed on the SAME drive for decades and don’t have this issue. Install Windows first because it WILL fuck up the EFI boot partition, that’s inevitable because Windows sucks, then install Linux, use the manual partition option and simply select the existing EFI System partition for the EFI and DO NOT mark format, Linux will then install and leave the Windows boot loader in the EFI partition undisturbed.
Linux WILL overwrite the boot block to start grub instead of the Windows boot loader, but most Linux distros will automatically add a chain boot loader entry to the grub menu to allow you to boot Windows, at least Debian and Redhat derived distros will do this, probably a more manual process in Arch derived distros.
If it does become necessary to install Whendoze after Linux, you can use boot-repair to automatically fix the EFI System partition Windows fucked up or you can boot off of a flash drive, and fix it manually.
One of the things you run into with audio production software is that in order to maintain accuracy with respect to phasing between channels, they require very accurate timing, this usually comes at the expense of very high interrupt rates and context switching and under the best of circumstances this is hardware intensive, more so with older processors that don’t have single instructions for storing the entire register set or restoring the entire register set to the stack with one instruction as many modern CPUs do. So hate to say it but you may need to upgrade to something less geriatric. You might also try a real-time kernel, it might allow the application to keep things sync’d up with less hardware interrupts though it will rely more on software interrupts do do the same. Unfortunately, I have found that while I can get the performance I require on my six year old processor using a realtime kernel, it has come with a sacrifice of stability, that is to say real time on my hardware at least has not been terribly stable.
@nyankas @HiddenLayer555 Unfortunately I have to agree, I find Photoshop hands down much easier and more intuitive to use than Gimp even though I’ve been using Gimp ever since Adobe went to a subscription only model because I absolutely refuse the Klaus Schwab notion of you will own nothing and be happy, bullshit. I was more than willing to pay for Adobe software when I could buy it but fuck if I will rent it.
@Ulrich I have an android tablet with an termio on it, basically gives me an x-term with an ssh connection. Can also look around locally. Granted they’ve really screwed up the file system layout, much like Mac fucked up BSD, but it is recognizably Linux.
@marauding_gibberish142 I personally find the Intel ME a useful feature, it’s nice for example to be able to upgrade BIOS without a CPU and/or memory, this has allowed me for example to upgrade the BIOS to a version needed for a newer CPU on a board with a BIOS that didn’t initially support it without needing the older CPU to perform the upgrade. And from a security standpoint, if you do not enable and configure the network stack, and you don’t have a DHCP server available to it for it do so on it’s own, I really don’t see what it can do that is harmful.
@jeena I grant you that is true, but under Linux, the kernel talks to the hardware directly after boot, not through BIOS calls. About the only time you would talk to the BIOS after boot is for sleep/suspend, or in rare cases such as the server my friendica instance runs on, for temp/CPU speed control because Linux kernel has issues properly using the MSR on the i9-10980xe, oddly it does not seem to have the same issue on the i9-10900x which is a ten core CPU in the same family, so I am forced to depend upon ACPI since talking to the hardware directly in this specific case is problematic. If you were running Windows or if you had weird hardware that is somewhat broken under Linux like mine, I can see the need, or if a laptop and you wanted sleep/suspend functionality. But for what you describe it isn’t clear the benefits. And there are some risks like it probably isn’t going to do the extensive memory training of a more advanced UEFI bios like American Megatrends, so your memory access may not be as efficient as it could be, and you’re more limited in hardware selection.
I am curious why coreboot is important?
You can MANUALLY set the voltage on your motherboard lower, for me this is just part of installing a new system, I always use prime95 or mprime on Linux to fully load it and find the absolute minimal voltage the CPU is stable at. We did this with my sons i7-13900k and have never had an issue even though he beats the holy hell out of the machine with gaming and we got it early one right after the chips release. CPU’s are a silicon lottery game and if you just let it set things you’re going either give up efficiency or CPU life over what you get determining optimum settings manually. If you happen to get a chip near the center of the die it will run faster and at lower voltage than one near the outside, but since the manufacturer has to assume the worst, they will specify a voltage that is adequate to run the chip at the rated speed even if it is one of the poor quality chips from the outer edges of the die, the result is excessively cooking your CPU way more than you need to.
@ShortN0te @truthfultemporarily What does sudo have to do with ssh keys?
You can disasble passwords so ONLY keys work, and you can firewall ssh to ONLY IPs you originate from.
@warmaster @apt_install_coffee No it is also possible with Intel, it was in fact possible with Intel BEFORE nVidia.