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Yeah, for you guys who change your grub config several times a day, that totally makes sense. You save a lot of time with that.

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Of course - here is the REAL timesaver! :grin:

Time saver

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true

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The os-prober is possible to bypass (=uninstall) by creating a file similar to grub.cfg.
It is /boot/grub/custom.cfg.

In that file you can write your own grub menu entries.
For example, if you are multi-booting, simply copy the grub menu entries from the other systems, between lines

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
...
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

and write them into your main (EndeavourOS) /boot/grub/custom.cfg.

Note that some parts of the copied entries might need a small modification.
If so, please ask here for more info.

If needed, a Windows entry can be added easily too.
:sweat_smile:

I guess that’s another way but just putting that line in /etc/default/grub kills it off quite well too! Then the uninstalll is irrelevant :grin:

Wiindows entry? I guess I could title one that way, and have it boot a BSD of some sort? That’s pretty close to BSOD, right? :rofl:

I have btrfs-snapshots and I am not using timeshift-autosnap . It does make unnecessary snapshots ( one snapshot per AUR package ) and sometimes create snapshot when many packages are installed .

A simple upg before shutdown is peace of mind .

Bauh is a bit known, especially for older Manjaro users, but I love using Bauh. It works really good at the moment.
You can manage snaps, flatpaks, web apps, appimages, aur and arch repos in this program:

You also have App Oulet, but I prefer bauh over this one.

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I agree about Bauh. I usually prefer to use yay in terminal to manage aur and flatpak updates, but recently I had twice an issue when I could not update with yay because of missing dependency or a file not found… and it’s not clear for me why or how, but Bauh did the trick.
So I keep Bauh in the background, just to use it when the terminal fails (which again, is quite strange, but…) :thinking:

Yay doesn’t update flatpak right? I always ran a script that did yay & flatpak update haha :slight_smile:

Yeah I prefer bauh over pamac because it offers more. I use the bauh tray for the update notifications, then I do sudo pacman -Syu and other stuff with bauh, works great.

Right, I don’t use yay in fact to update Flatpak. I use the Flatpak command in Terminal. I need to think twice before I write a post (and take the time to read what I just wrote) … :rofl:

Tograde is go to. Pamac GUI to see what updates there are, and the Konsole and Topgrade to update everything.

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I love Bauh. Pamac-all was giving me trouble on Plasma, so I switched to Octopi the other day, which in the past was buggy, but it has come a long way. However, I always seem to pull up Bauh in the end. It also comes with a good system tray notifier, with a very unfortunate icon (which I replaced :wink:.)

What icon do you use? The icon indeed is a bit ugly, but for me Pamac-all was also giving me trouble on Plasma. Bauh works faster for me too.

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I think I found a symbolic icon in the Korla icon theme package that seemed to work, that didn’t look like the treasure chest you put in fish tanks that bubble :rofl:, and just renamed it to bauh.svg and placed it in my current icon theme.

The only issue I have with topgrade is a lot of time I’ll update and walk away to find that the air updates failed because I was asked to every my password again. So I have used it and like it, but I don’t use it much anymore

I really start to like the lite editor. Pretty simple editor with great customization.

Here is a new app that is in development and out as beta, called Hypnotix.

Another way to watch live TV is by using IPTV. There are a number of TV channels available via IPTV so that viewers can use internet to watch the live broadcast. Some channels are available for free while some might require subscription.

The article above says that it is not available in Arch yet, but it is in AUR. Free TV, yah! :tv:

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There was this thread in the forum some time ago about Hypnotix. Looks like a nice app! Kudos to Mint development team!

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In my book you should never walk away while doing updates, and yes depending on what you are doing in Konsole you will be asked for your password again, unless you change the timeout length.

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Why? If I’ve looked over the packages and approved, what’s there to supervise?

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How do you change the font size?