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linux·LinuxbyLibra00

The Terminal Question

I know this probably comes up a lot and is liable to spark some debate, but I'm curious what the good options are for terminals. I've skimmed some reddit/lemmy posts about it and looked at a few options and I dunno how to decide between them because they all seem like they're too narrowly focused on some particular use case. I'm just using it for general terminal stuff, nothing terribly fancy. I'm aware that there's not one terminal to rule them all or anything, so I'm curious: what do you folks use, and more importantly, why do you use that over the (many) other options available?

Personally I've just been using konsole since it's what came with kde and it seems nice and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on features I don't even know about. One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such where i'm doing the tinkering instead of constantly tabbing out to duck.ai or w/e.

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kde·KDE & Plasma usersbyLibra00

Plasma 6 calendar agenda widget

I'm looking for a desktop widget that will just display the day's agenda from google calendar (I know google is not ideal, but I need reminders on my phone for events and haven't found a better solution that works on both desktop and android.) I have the Digital Clock widget which I've configured to display a calendar that pops up and shows the dates and upcoming events, but I'd like something that just shows the events for the day on my desktop all the time. I've done a fair bit of searching around and the best I've found so far is Event Calendar, but it's not updated for Plasma 6 and the various p6 forks people have posted about either seem very bare bones/incomplete or to just not work. On android I have this widget on my home screen and something simple and easy to see like that would be ideal.

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linux·LinuxbyLibra00

[Nobara] Help fixing boot situation

So I have a weird situation that I'm not sure how to fix, and it's going to require some background.

I have 4 drives in my machine:

  1. A ~15 year old 128GB SATA SSD (windows, ntfs)
  2. An ~8 year old 512GB SATA SSD (libraries, ntfs)
  3. A ~5 year old 1TB NVMe SSD (nobara, btrfs)
  4. A ~1 year old 2TB NVMe SSD (games, ntfs)

I've gone a month now without booting into windows so I figure it's time to clean up my windows install and reclaim/retire those drives, but my boot situation is kinda weird. #1 is my current default boot drive in bios, and it has both the boot loader for windows and for a previous ubuntu install I also had on the current-nobara install, and then #3 has another one (but won't boot when I select it in bios for whatever reason), so what I really need to do is clean up all these extraneous boot-loaders and set one up on drive #3 to be my main boot from now on. But I'm very nervous about messing with that sort of thing and rendering my system unbootable (I know, I still have the install USB I could use, but still.) I've tried reading guides and such on how to do bootloader stuff in general, but I am not confident in my ability to not fuck it up.

Although now that I think about it if I don't care about the windows boot drive I can just pull it, I just need to make sure I can boot off drive #3 before I do do that and I have no idea how to go about setting that up with my current situation.

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linux·LinuxbyLibra00

Nobara 42 bootloader install issues?

The full error for anyone having issues with the screenshot is: Installation Failed Bootloader installation error The bootloader could not be installed. The installationc ommand grub2-install -target=i386-pc -recheck -force /dev/nvme0n1 returned error code 1.

Context: I've had a hell of a rough time trying to install linux on my system, I've tried Pop, 2 versions of Ubuntu, Mint, and now I'm trying Nobara, and it's the first one that failed to install (I've mostly had video driver issues with the others.) My current disk situation is kind of a mess, I have 4 in the system:

  1. ~15 year old OCZ SATA 128GB SSD (windows/boot)
  2. ~10 year old WD SATA 512GB SSD (windows libraries like pictures, documents, downloads, etc)
  3. ~6 month old Samsung 990 EVO 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD (games installed from windows)
  4. ~5 year old BPXPro 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (previous Ubuntu install that I had other issues with)

#1 is my boot drive and has the bootloader on it (when I want to boot ubuntu I hit F11 and select the second entry for that drive in the menu.) Previous distro installs have had no problem installing right over top of that and disk #4, but for whatever reason Nobara has failed to install the boot loader and I have no idea how to even begin to resolve this. I've done some searching and only found results with similar situations that aren't quite the same, it seems this is commonly an issue with linux installs into partitions of a drive that is shared with windows, but that's not what I'm doing (at least not for the main install, I guess that is kind of what it's doing with the bootloader?)

I can manually erase disk #4 if that would help, but is there some way I can manually go in and clear out the old bootloader (without messing up the windows install/boot)?

Other specs in case it's relevant:

  • Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9GHz 8-core CPU
  • 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM
  • Gigabite Vision OC 12 RTX3060 GPU
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