[TK] Trainzkid

When I’m confused about commands, I find checking the man page for the command a good start to understand what the flags do. Once you’ve got man-pages installed on your Linux system, you can do “man grub-install” (or any other command) from a terminal to see information about that command and it’s flags.

I’m not sure if it says it in the Arch wiki, I think it might, but “esp” is often shorthand for whatever directory you’re using as an EFI boot directory, I don’t think it’s a literal directory. On my Arch system, my esp is “/boot/EFI” I’m pretty sure.

As for why Gentoo doesn’t include the --target flag, it could be that “x86_64-efi” is either the default on gentoo’s version of grub, or just the default for every version of grub, meaning if the latter is the case, that flag could be safely omitted for your arch installation.

I’m pretty sure the --bootloader-id flag is just a friendly name for the bootloader that you can see from the terminal when booted into a Linux system and probably also from the bios menu. I’m not 100% though, a check through the man page would tell you more about that specific flag. Gentoo may omit it, leaving it either blank, or as some sort of default.

To answer your original question, the system boots up, does some basic checking of hardware to make sure everything can run okay and that there are no obvious faults or incompatibilities, then tries to load a program called a “bootloader” (such as grub), which will then hand off execution to whichever operating system you select. If you’re not fond of grub, good news! There are plenty of other good bootloaders available. I’m a big fan of rEFInd (UEFI only) or systemd-boot.

I don’t know grub SUPER well, but I’m pretty sure it gets installed in that --efi-directory location that you provide when you run the command. It might be nested a few directories down though, not sure.

That’s absurd! hides oil barrel

Heaven forbid I have an opinion that goes against the majority! #oneofus #oneofus #oneofus

Could you give me a link or two? I’d love to do some reading. Finding trustworthy sources is hard

OnePlus 5T + Brave Asus ROG Phone 6 + Brave

Brave blocks ads without any annoying plugin, it’s chromium based (I’ve always been a bit of a fan of chrome), and it allows me to use duckduckgo for search.

Do you use your cell connection on the 6T + PMOS? I’ve got an old 5T I’d love to flash Linux onto as a primary phone but not sure how support is on the OnePlus phones

“we notice everyone is having trouble getting our previous model due to scalpers, so we released a new version at double the price!”

/s

Every 2 weeks is the hottest 2 weeks because the media loves to create new tragedies. We’ve had plenty of hot summers and cold winters before, as well as plenty of cold summers and hot winters. Inb4 I’m a dirty commie for being skeptical

I’ve got an Arch server that I update monthly (and have been for 2+ years now), and a desktop that I update maybe 2-3 times a week. I’ve not had any issues, so long as I update the keyring first. Good luck!!

Can women please stop trying to be OnlyFans models we need mothers and emotional support I’m begging you

Also +1 for those who pointed out how weirdly gendered this post was

Yes, next question

This sounds awesome, how did you get into it?

Pages not loading or error’ing out, general usability stuff, like pictures in the feed snapping back to small/icon size causing the feed to jump around, posts opening in the same window and going back takes me all the way to the top/start of my feed, the confusion around interoperability between instances (can I just log in with my account on another instance? Do i need a new account?), etc.

I’m on mobile, so maybe that’s a large part of my complaint, but when ya come from Reddit, it’s hard to not see things Reddit does well that you miss.

It’s also very likely some of this is simply user error, I am not an expert, but I feel like if it’s confusing or not intuitive for me, then it’s probably room for improvement.

Edit: Idk what changes were made in the most recent update to Lemmy but a lot of my complaints here no longer appear to me occurring, so that’s great news!!

I don’t mean to be a Debbie downer but even I have trouble enjoying Lemmy because of some of it’s problems/quirks. I don’t think it’ll be anywhere near as popular as alternatives with those problems present. I hate it but that’s how I feel. I hope it gets better

I try to make a habit of using the terminal for as much as I can, which honestly is a lot. I’ve even found a way to use it at work.

One day, I plan to run Linux without a window manager, maybe even without xorg entirely, using the tty’s exclusively.