Océane
2 years ago

tech - trying out GNU/Linux distributions on my new laptop

Solus seems to work great, the only issues I went through were related to the command line interface (vim wasn’t installed, and only available through eopkg, not through the GUI packages installer, and doas isn’t ported yet), which isn’t a problem given its graphical focus (conversely to Alpine Linux which focuses on the CLI experience first).texstudio and rstudio are both available through the graphical packages installer so let’s see how this turns out…

Océane
2 years ago

tech - trying out GNU/Linux distributions on my new laptop - bug report

So far, the Solus installer stays on a Qwerty layout, but does perform the mkinitcpio hooks that turn the keyboard at the FDE password time into an alternative layout (e.g. Dvorak) on the second boot, which means that instead of not working on the first boot, it doesn’t on the later ones (which isn’t ideal if you use a YubiKey, or at all really).As usual I’ve worked around this problem by setting a Qwerty layout at install time, and changing it after rebooting.When I need to enter my password to unlock my session, the layout stays on Qwerty, which isn’t elegant… Because there’s FDE anyway, I’ll just try to remove this prompt.