Thanks for clarifying, and I can appreciate your overall concerns as I face the same dilemma with my aging relatives.
Just to confirm, have you opened these files in Word yourself (or witnessed them being opened), to verify they are in fact valid documents? if valid, are they meant to be in English?
It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen “other” files renamed with an incorrect file extension.
Assuming you meant “.docx files”, those should open without issue in LibreOffice. As others have said, OnlyOffice is another popular option if format preservation is a goal.
What do you mean when you say the files are “not supported” by the tools you’ve tried? What, exactly, is happening and what are you trying to accomplish? The end goal wasn’t clear to me from your post.
Getting Word to run under wine will require much more effort than copying the Word binary.
I think I’ve tried nearly every monospace typeface over the years and I’ve finally settled on JetBrains Mono for more than 2 years now, though IBM Plex Mono is a close second.
Looks great! I’ll definitely give this a try!
If you’re now getting I/O errors that won’t even get you booted, it sounds to me like drive failure is imminent.
For what it’s worth, I’ve never had to change my io scheduler in the nearly twenty years I’ve used Linux. You can check your current scheduler with the following command: cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler (change the block device to whatever yours is…sda, nvme0n1, etc.).
In my case, it was already bfq: one mq-deadline kyber [bfq]
Distrobox will resolve your issue with VSCode and then some. Run archlinux, debian or whatever you want as a container. Then, install VSCode/VSCodium (and any other apps that Chimera lacks) inside the container OS. This will keep your development environment containerized and safely away from your host OS.
Thank you, sebastinas and gang!
It definitely sounds like a hardware issue since it has survived multiple disk wipes and distro changes.
I’ve been very happy with both Silverblue and Kinoite. I’ve installed it to all of my workstations now and can’t imagine ever going back to a traditional distro.
Your comments suggest that you’re already aware of distros like Silverblue so, if I may ask, how are these different than what you’re looking for? Silverblue comes with several flatpaks installed, but you can easily remove these and you’ll be left with a pretty barebones ostree image.
We swapped our 2080s for 6800 XTs last year and couldn’t be happier…a 7900 GRE should be great for gaming, but I can’t speak to LLM performance.
I was able to extract the img from the ISO using geteltorito as described in section 5 of this ArchWiki article. Once you mount the resulting img file, you’ll end up with the same file contents achieved by running their Windows BIOS Utility through wine.
The relevant binaries appear to be under the folders, N24ET76P and N24ET76W. Both scan clean for me, for whatever that’s worth:
curl -X POST -F'file=@N24ET76P/$0AN2400.FL1' https://pk.fail
{"details":{"analysis-time":"1.395106993s","hashes":{"md5":"ba73792a5fc831ca84b4cd3a21c03247","sha1":"24a5bb42d670c7705aed06588f0092ec11a32564","sha256":"b9510c73657460ae24c550b71d217a543b0fc3c30a3e081eff31d9d8f1a2bdda","sha512":"8ef6f0dcffbca05b79710b8599b1b1c926ee59185a675bc7eeede6da040c751097303ada523611271de6aaf190a597cdd6e9d5cf564d06987abcf712f61227c6"}},"status":"not-vulnerable"}
curl -X POST -F'file=@N24ET76W/$0AN2400.FL1' https://pk.fail
{"details":{"analysis-time":"1.438471526s","hashes":{"md5":"de1551b0bcc73e19375f7111def72278","sha1":"cd41f36d018f940c308a7be25a20e81bdb7e4cf2","sha256":"b3f646095e47bb94f04390c756cb4133201b1231a8b224174f10bb06bd3835f2","sha512":"55143f4903f92d88057bc9d4232b0d328e9ace36330f35fafdf0485d8bebb3f79b9fedc88ab1dec7fc04a8a3e0890887c1dd7632a2ffa397fb0917be90e3f93f"}},"status":"not-vulnerable"}
The linux command mentioned in the Ars Technica article elsewhere here is efi-readvar -v PK. For Fedora and Arch users, efi-readvar is available in the efitools package.
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An ISO is just another archive format, similar to zip, tarballs, and rar files. Most modern archive tools can open and/or extract its contents like any other archive.
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It looks like Lenovo releases their ISOs formatted as a CD image. See: https://workaround.org/article/updating-the-bios-on-lenovo-laptops-from-linux-using-a-usb-flash-stick/
I can’t say for certain, but I think you just have to grab the last firmware binary released for your T480 from the Lenovo website and run it through the online validator: https://pk.fail/
You should be able to layer the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome package, which will also pull any dependencies.
To answer your general question though, yes I believe you can easily install at least minimal versions of each DE with little impact to rpm-ostree performance. They don’t need to be separate images, though that’s possible too by rebasing and pinning. I would just layer the necessary packages to load a GNOME environment (start with rpm-ostree install gnome-shell). This way everything stays up to date with the active image. For example, I’m running GDM under Kinoite simply because I was having unresolvable issues with SDDM and LightDM.
Pinning separate images would require you to rebase with each image update and then unpin/pin the old/new images…too much work.
NUC 8i5, 32GB, 500GB NVMe (host), 8TB SSD (data), Akasa Turing fanless case, running Proxmox:
I also have a Pi 4 running LibreElec for Kodi on the home theater. Nothing fancy yet and it more than meets our current needs. Most maintenance done over SSH.
Would like to eventually get a proper web and email server going (yes, I know).
Haha, oh I know and I’m all for trying things for the fun of it! Just wondered if there was a practical benefit of such a setup.
Interesting endeavor…any practical benefits? I would think that even a slow USB 2.0 drive would provide better performance than a cloud-based file system.
Not mutually exclusive, but it’s highly probable that if you’re running a mainstream distro, the default kernel is in lockdown mode, preventing hibernation while secure boot is enabled.