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    Easiest version of Linux for seniors ?

    The advice here is what I'd give too, Debian Stable, Ubuntu long term support (LTS), Mint. For one main reason, my overly extensive experience with what makes people leave Linux is upgrade failures, so don't use a rolling release distribution, and don't use a version of a frozen pool...
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    Today's article has us finding out which display-manager we're using.

    Testing is a huge part. Learning how to test effectively, how to spot missing or wrong data, having multiple machines to test on, all helpful. The bug in 3.3.17 for example happened because all my local systems, and all my remote systems, did not trigger that bug. But it did trigger for other...
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    Today's article has us finding out which display-manager we're using.

    @wizardfromoz the best thing to do is to run pinixi with -U, and get used to the output enough to see when something is wrong or missing. Email is good, github issues is ok. inxi / smxi sub forums on techpatterns.com are fine too.
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    Today's article has us finding out which display-manager we're using.

    Got most of the data, Unit193, the debian/ubuntu packager, came through. inxi 3.3.18, out tomorrow, will feature slimski full support, including version info.
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    Today's article has us finding out which display-manager we're using.

    The more inxi is used, the harder it seems to be to get people to actually contribute in any active way. I find this worrying to be honest. I'm trying to create more tools and release them as FOSS for backend stuff, but that's also work, but the idea is, lower the bar to entry to help, but it's...
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    Today's article has us finding out which display-manager we're using.

    It's hard to keep up with new dms or window managers, they pop up constantly, same with compositors etc. This is particularly the case when people make new dms out of old ones, this is the second slim based one I've heard of recently, the other one was covered partially, but not completely...
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    New feature: nvidia graphics info in inxi/pinxi -Gx -Ga --nvidia - testers?

    I extended this feature post 3.3.16 to also include AMD gpu data, that took a while to collect/collate because amd doesn't publish lists like nvidia does. Since it's not nvidia only, I got rid of --nvidia and replaced it with --gpu: pinxi --gpu Graphics: Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD...
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    New feature: nvidia graphics info in inxi/pinxi -Gx -Ga --nvidia - testers?

    While I wanted to get the nvidia feature out, after I did 3.3.16 I ended up finding an ok data source for amd pci ids, not perfect, but ok, so maybe next month this feature will be extended in next inxi to support amd gfx devices too.
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    New feature: nvidia graphics info in inxi/pinxi -Gx -Ga --nvidia - testers?

    dos2unix, you'll be able to test the new alpha kernel driver on your nvidia devices, turing/ampere are supported for desktops but only in alpha state. Not the display driver though, just the kernel driver. I initially had just thought of doing this feature only to show legacy nvidia devices, but...
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    New feature: nvidia graphics info in inxi/pinxi -Gx -Ga --nvidia - testers?

    wow, 256 views and not a single response.... inxi 3.3.16 is out now, so enjoy.
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    Can I outupt a .sh script to a file?

    Technically speaking, this output redirection is a unix/linux feature, that windows eventually implemented, so the more correct way to say it is, oh, windows does a standard unix/linux thing, that's surprising! There's a ton of stuff you can do with redirection, it's a common way to do simple...
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    New feature: nvidia graphics info in inxi/pinxi -Gx -Ga --nvidia - testers?

    Running live now in pinxi pinxi -U if you have it installed sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/pinxi pinxi smxi.org/pinxi && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pinxi if you don't. This will show information that will get more important now that Nvidia has taken the first steps to opensourcing it's driver...
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    Handy scripts for Debian distros --inxi, smxi, sgfxi and others

    smxi is barely maintained anymore, stuff that works in it still, works, and stuff that doesn't, has small issues, nothing major, but it's largely dormant, still useful if you like what it does, but I have no plans of spending much time on it anymore. sgfxi still gets basic updates, mainly...
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    Help interpreting lshw and inxi outputs

    NorthWest's response was very good. One addition I'd make, due pretty much exactly to the slight confusion between what the Device driver (i915 in this case) and the X.org driver (modesetting in this case) refer to, current inxi now shows in the Display line: drivers: X: modesetting gpu: i915...
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    Does zeroing out a hard drive guarantee total file elimination?

    I have a faint memory that a lot of the stuff about sure erasing of drives was sort of a lingering myth from the days that the 'tracks' of the spinning disk drives were relatively large in terms of their molecular size, and you could actually get a sort of 'shadow' at the edges of each track of...
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