It doesn’t make me any less interested though. I’d still love to know. People rarely sway so much so quickly, especially after making such a decision. It’s fascinating
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Gnome3 still?? Debian based?
What is it that they actually manage to have troubles with AMD graphics? Weird… 
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Let’s get back to sharing the desktop then!
I pulled the SSD back in early Sept to setup a bare metal test computer.
I reinstalled it yesterday. I had to reinstall grub completely. Updated arch-keyring and mirrors, and gave it the first update since 8/26/2021. 6 months no updates - and other than grub and keyring. . . No other problems. I then stripped it down in a TTY, removed Cinnamon, removed lightdm upgraded to pipewire, added GNOME/gdm. I still have to comb through some config files still, BUT my 22 month old install is back in business and lives on!
Goodbye Cinnamon, hello GNOME.
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Nice!
Just a note though - for future reference…
To avoid the possible stress from a long-overdue update, use eos-shifttime (or the simpler version from our ‘Share aliases and scripts’ thread) - to step through the upgrade in smaller doses - maybe 1 month each? Less knowledge required, and fewer things to sort as the upgrades stay sync’ed better…
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I don’t know anything about shift time. I’ll look into it. The drive physically wasn’t in computer so it wasn’t possible to update. I can’t imaging I would ever really need to worry about it honestly, it’s pretty rare and I don’t really recommend going 6 months between updates.
That is really. I was looking it the other day. Seems interesting the fact that should work with Linux and Fucsia. Will see how it will shape in the future
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It can happen easily enough - whether the drive is plugged in or not! Anyway - here’s the wiki on eos-shifttime. It is basically the Arch archive being made easily accessible - you choose your date and the system is updated to the packages that were current on that date…
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So I can set it up update a couple weeks at a time until the current date? So I hadn’t updated since sorry September 1. . . I can set it up “update” to October 1 even though it’s Match 1??
How? Where does it pull the packages from?
Arch maintains an archive by date of all updates (see Archwiki) - what I did was to ‘automate’ the process with a GUI. I also use this to keep my mirror server updated - to a week in the past (to give time to solve any issues before it takes down the server!). Very handy little capability - and why I don’t bother with btrfs and snapper/timeshift etc.
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Yes, pretty interesting concept. I’ll be keeping an eye on it to see how it evolves.
No kidding. Well, maybe next time.
Now that I have installed LXDE desktop over the top then removed Xfce along with its baggage and any toy-town packages; I am once again running fast, lean, efficient, eco friendly - saving power and money too. Not quite able to get back to the efficiency of Trisquel-mini LXDE at 143 MiB RAM but still happy with EnOS at 239 MiB RAM. ( If you examine screenshot you will see that I’m connected to internet with data in and outgoing.)
So time for a new look desktop reflecting those core ArchLinux principles of lightweight and KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid - Hence total absence of toy-town gizmos.
Dull grey image hopefully requires less illumination and power…?
Have been playing with my own artwork using 3D Realview Graphics which lets you specify materials such as Gold, Chrome Plate, wood, water etc and control a studio with adjustable ambient and spot lighting but still fall back to this grey image.
You can see the real level of detail in the screenshot below…
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As a mini lover I felt this was needed
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A touch of added elegance with ClearClock 
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At least the Mini is as REAL one A bit hard to tell the year, though…
Based off a late 60’s early 70’s Australian Morris mini… I’m not sure if the bumper arms came standard back then though… Australia stopped making the round nose minis in the early 70’s and switched the the clubman’s sadly
But yeah no BMW minis for me 
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Ahh - most of my (ownership) experiences were with North American LHD models - and I have no clue as to the bumper overriders! They look good though.
I was more trying to guess from the external seam, but apparent wind-up windows - sort of in the middle range I guess. Amazing what you could do (get away with) on corners with good Michelins on those little wheels - even fully loaded (4 people). I would buy another if they were around - though I might want a brake upgrade! Lost use of a throttle cable once (overheat melted its casing, locking it solid) but drove it home with the choke knob and cable substituting - needed three hands for shifts though!
Australian models had the wind up windows except the early 850s… they were manufactured here in Australia for our market the price has jumped massively in the last few years… most fun I’ve ever had diving that’s for sure…
I’ll have another one one day 
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