Did ya miss me?
Don't worry, I'm not dead. It's just this month has been quite the busy one.
I practically spend half the month tinkering with my Linux setup, and the other half on vacation in Quebec (which I just got back from).
I didn't really doodle while I was away, but I did take a ton of photos!
So tough to pick a few pics out of all my 350 pictures I took throughout my vacation around Gaspé.
Had so much fun seeing the ocean for the first time, and learning about a part of Canada I never really knew about! So much so that I almost forgot I still need to continue building my new Linux setup when I got back home.
Which reminds me, here's how my setup looks like right now
[Showing-off a bunch of apps that may or may not look cool. So hard to show-off on such a tiny resolution]
[The app searcher. Basically my version of the start menu. I've been tinkering a bunch with File Managers, so those ended-up on the top]
[Logout screen. Need to make custom icons for these options]
Pretty much everything from the wallpaper, to the toolbar up-top, to the search menu, and the logout menu were customized by yours truly. The only things that aren't are basically the terminal applications, but those are all pretty barebones with customization anyways.
Is the flair really necessary? No, but I'm going to look at this for days on end, so I might as well make it as pretty as possible.
I still need to do more tweaking to get it in a usable state. Stuff like shortcut scripts for commonly used actions (mounting USBs, networking, and multi-monitor stuff), as well as making custom drawings and animations for the wallpapers and even a screensaver, but those can wait.
Some of you might have noticed I moved away from Arch Linux as well. That's because Arch broke one time too many, so I moved to Debian which doesn't break as easily but doesn't have as many "fun" packages.
Afterwards when all this testing is done, I'll be transferring everything to my main PCs, and then I can start the main event: The Vectorizer!
[That's right! My hiatus still isn't over! It only just the beginning!]
Now before this gets too buried, here the comic of the month
Oh these two...anyways, that's all for this month news update. Does anyone like my tech stuff? Feels like I'm making people's brains explode the moment I say "Linux"-oh, there goes another one.
Well without further ado, I bid you farewell and hope you'll come back to another technobabblery update next month if your brains can take it!
See you next post!
UnculturedMutt
What's the difference between suspend and hibernate?
NothanyTPM
Suspend (AKA: the Linux version of sleep mode) still needs power while suspended, meanwhile hibernate doesn't.
[Suspend/sleep save to RAM while hibernate saves to your hard-drive to be more technical]
The main difference is that suspend wakes-up faster than hibernate, but hibernate is safer if you're in a situation where you have a power-outage, or are low on battery.
It's good to have both, or even set it up where your PC can go from suspend to hibernate after a while.
Hope that answers your question!