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  • fl42v@lemmy.mltoUnixporn@lemmy.mlBedrock rice
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    2 months ago

    A so-called “meta distribution”, allows you to mix and match packages from some other distros. Kinda like distrobox, but older (AFAIK) and low level-er.

    That said, I didn’t find it exactly useful a few years ago, since pretty much everything i needed was in the aur or the official repos (should be better if the base was smth like Ubuntu)







  • fl42v@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlThinkpad recs?
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    3 months ago

    CPUs are also somewhat choked. I had to use throttled to make mine run above 2.4 GHz under load. (You need HWP_MODE and possibly Disable_BDPROCHOT, if anyone’s interested).

    But other than that, waaaay better compared to …70 laptops, and some models seem to beat maxed out t440p-s. Also quicksync massively speeds up video decoding/encoding, so I’m overall happy with mine so far.




  • fl42v@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldbtw
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    4 months ago

    Although, it’s possible to bloat it unknowingly: networkmanager, for example, depends on a few VPNs noone would ever need, and one of them depends on webkitgtk, so you actually have to mkForce modules to include only the necessary stuff. Not like that’s a huge issue, but I wasn’t amused when I saw “building webkitgtk” while cross-compiling 😆