I have a youtube channel where I post up videos of a game our whole family plays, put to music.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSrCwyF4Wzxwb1vAPScL-kqS-l3JooZV_
Tuishimi's Star Stable Youtube Channel
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Fedora, Fuel and KaOS
Well you know me by now... can't settle down for anything. I have been back on Fedora (I have been flipping back and forth between Pop_OS! and Fedora for awhile now) for a couple of weeks. The terrible GNOME visual eye candy performance drove me crazy and, as I have noted in a previous web log entry, Fedora is vastly superior in that regard.
So I installed and configured Fedora 29, using a grey theme, easy on the eyes (similar to MX Linux greybird theme), got Nvidia going, got PlayOnLinux, Steam and other tools that I like to use up and running. But... I am always looking at odd new distros. Today my three choices were Slackware, SolydK and KaOS.
I've run all of these for at least a day at some point in time. A LONG time ago I ran Slackware on a machine with Gnome 2 or something like that. But, Slackware is nice, but it is work and I am lazy, but it was nice to see it booted fine off my thumb drive! Solyd might be a solid distro, but it did not work very well on my hardware. KaOS...
Well I had tried KaOS over a year ago and thought "this is a nice distro!" My problem with it then was its come-hell-or-high-water-we-will-only-be-64-bits mantra. And honestly I get it, the keeper/developer worked HARD to make a gorgeous, usable KDE distro unlike any other. When I say gorgeous I mean GORGEOUS! Very nice to look at. But even better than that... it supports flatpak. Yes, you can install flatpak on KaOS and (if you are not familiar with flatpak) because of that you can now use any application in the flatpak library. STEAM is one of those. In fact in a previous incarnation of Fedora I ran a flatpak version of Steam! Not only that, Wine 64 runs on KaOS and really, my favorite game runs on 64 bit Wine... so, while I might not have PlayOnLinux to install it on KaOS, I should be able to figure out how to manually install my game through Wine.
This means that if I WANT to switch over to KaOS, nothing is really holding me back. I need to think about it though as Fedora is a very good Gnome/Gtk based linux distribution.
Ahhh the FUEL part. Nothing to do with Linux really. I ordered some gasoline additive that is supposed to raise your octane points over 10! And I mean 10 Octane as you read it at the pump, not octane points... it raises over 100 of them.
My gas tank is down to about 1/2. I figure I will use a little more up tomorrow and add this to my tank and fill it with regular unleaded. That should get me over 95 octane easily. I am curious to see how my engine tuner responds to that. I thought about going with 91 octane + the additive but, that seems like overkill++.
Also, I have narrowed down my "hesitation" issue. It happens usually when accelerating half-heartedly between 40 and 50 miles per hour... I believe the tuner I have on confuses the transmission somehow... so unless I am mashing it or just driving plain-jane style around that speed the engine starts up-down-up-down shifting, or just stops shifting and almost seems to get stuck in neutral. It is a bizarre thing.
Good night!
So I installed and configured Fedora 29, using a grey theme, easy on the eyes (similar to MX Linux greybird theme), got Nvidia going, got PlayOnLinux, Steam and other tools that I like to use up and running. But... I am always looking at odd new distros. Today my three choices were Slackware, SolydK and KaOS.
I've run all of these for at least a day at some point in time. A LONG time ago I ran Slackware on a machine with Gnome 2 or something like that. But, Slackware is nice, but it is work and I am lazy, but it was nice to see it booted fine off my thumb drive! Solyd might be a solid distro, but it did not work very well on my hardware. KaOS...
Well I had tried KaOS over a year ago and thought "this is a nice distro!" My problem with it then was its come-hell-or-high-water-we-will-only-be-64-bits mantra. And honestly I get it, the keeper/developer worked HARD to make a gorgeous, usable KDE distro unlike any other. When I say gorgeous I mean GORGEOUS! Very nice to look at. But even better than that... it supports flatpak. Yes, you can install flatpak on KaOS and (if you are not familiar with flatpak) because of that you can now use any application in the flatpak library. STEAM is one of those. In fact in a previous incarnation of Fedora I ran a flatpak version of Steam! Not only that, Wine 64 runs on KaOS and really, my favorite game runs on 64 bit Wine... so, while I might not have PlayOnLinux to install it on KaOS, I should be able to figure out how to manually install my game through Wine.
This means that if I WANT to switch over to KaOS, nothing is really holding me back. I need to think about it though as Fedora is a very good Gnome/Gtk based linux distribution.
Ahhh the FUEL part. Nothing to do with Linux really. I ordered some gasoline additive that is supposed to raise your octane points over 10! And I mean 10 Octane as you read it at the pump, not octane points... it raises over 100 of them.
My gas tank is down to about 1/2. I figure I will use a little more up tomorrow and add this to my tank and fill it with regular unleaded. That should get me over 95 octane easily. I am curious to see how my engine tuner responds to that. I thought about going with 91 octane + the additive but, that seems like overkill++.
Also, I have narrowed down my "hesitation" issue. It happens usually when accelerating half-heartedly between 40 and 50 miles per hour... I believe the tuner I have on confuses the transmission somehow... so unless I am mashing it or just driving plain-jane style around that speed the engine starts up-down-up-down shifting, or just stops shifting and almost seems to get stuck in neutral. It is a bizarre thing.
Good night!
Sunday, February 24, 2019
I am not much of a mechanic but...
...I do manage to perform some maintenance on my vehicles. Tonight I replaced the spark plugs in my R59 mini S, and boy the old plugs looked bad. I got the old ones out easily, put some anti-seize on the new ones and they went right in. Took the mini around the block for a test drive and, call me crazy but I think the exhaust smelled a lot cleaner.
It will be interesting to see how she performs over the next week.
I am also... such a dork... I am also back on Fedora. Love Pop, but the gnome performance is terribly sketchy. I can get Nvidia drivers and non-free audio drivers installed on Fedora, AND gnome runs like butter. So ... here I am.
Other than that, not too much to report. Gotta go to bed soon. Have a 6:30 AM meeting in the office tomorrow. :)
It will be interesting to see how she performs over the next week.
I am also... such a dork... I am also back on Fedora. Love Pop, but the gnome performance is terribly sketchy. I can get Nvidia drivers and non-free audio drivers installed on Fedora, AND gnome runs like butter. So ... here I am.
Other than that, not too much to report. Gotta go to bed soon. Have a 6:30 AM meeting in the office tomorrow. :)
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Welllll you know me...
Fedora was fun. But I am back to Pop. Could not help it. It just feels better for some reason.
Different theme for me... a little bright though.
So any linux users out there who have successfully installed and run Lollypop? Any tips, because I just wanted to try it but... when I kick it off to scan my music folder it hangs my system.
I don't have to use Lollypop, I can use one of a myriad of music apps but... I had heard good things about it so I wanted to take it out for a spin.
I could try building it from scratch.
Different theme for me... a little bright though.
So any linux users out there who have successfully installed and run Lollypop? Any tips, because I just wanted to try it but... when I kick it off to scan my music folder it hangs my system.
I don't have to use Lollypop, I can use one of a myriad of music apps but... I had heard good things about it so I wanted to take it out for a spin.
I could try building it from scratch.
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Fedora 29 So Far
Been pretty darn good.
I had noted previously that it is work to get the NVIDIA drivers working, which I did get done, but because of the order of installing drivers PRIOR to installing Steam I ran into issues.
I installed the Flatpak version of Steam instead and got around the issue of starting. But then found that the Flatpak version of steam does not quite run as well as the installed version. But it works and I can game so... I am happy enough at the moment!
One thing I will say is that Fedora holds onto a surprising amount of RAM, more than I expected. It is not "lean and mean." On the other hand GNOME on Fedora is even smoother than it is on Pop!_OS. So perhaps the high memory usage is for good reason. I don't know.
Not complaining, I have plenty of RAM. More than I should ever need.
Although, that being said, I plan on doubling that with my next build. :)
I had noted previously that it is work to get the NVIDIA drivers working, which I did get done, but because of the order of installing drivers PRIOR to installing Steam I ran into issues.
I installed the Flatpak version of Steam instead and got around the issue of starting. But then found that the Flatpak version of steam does not quite run as well as the installed version. But it works and I can game so... I am happy enough at the moment!
One thing I will say is that Fedora holds onto a surprising amount of RAM, more than I expected. It is not "lean and mean." On the other hand GNOME on Fedora is even smoother than it is on Pop!_OS. So perhaps the high memory usage is for good reason. I don't know.
Not complaining, I have plenty of RAM. More than I should ever need.
Although, that being said, I plan on doubling that with my next build. :)
Rainy night, Rainy Day
Rain is so great in Arizona.
Rained all night, drizzly today, everything around us is covered in a blanket of fog. Warming up too, as this storm is sucking in some hotter air mass.
Anyway, hope everyone out there is having a wonderful day!
Rained all night, drizzly today, everything around us is covered in a blanket of fog. Warming up too, as this storm is sucking in some hotter air mass.
Anyway, hope everyone out there is having a wonderful day!
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