hi ralsei,

[edgy marsh]

hi

okay

now try sudo pacman -Syu

[sullen mantle]

okay that worked

It didn't flip out now

[edgy marsh]

okay now reboot since it probably updated some core packages

[sullen mantle]

Ok im back from reboot

[edgy marsh]

okay

now try to reinstall vmware-workstation from the aur so yay -S vmware-workstation

[pine temple]

@edgy marsh @sullen mantle what's the problem?

[sullen mantle]

VMware

[edgy marsh]

he needs to get a vm working to make a windows 10 usb with rufus

[sullen mantle]

ye

[edgy marsh]

bc woeusb just corrupts his usb drive

and ventoy doesnt work

[pine temple]

you don't need to do that to make the usb

[sullen mantle]

and Ventoy fucked up my iso

[sullen mantle]

dd doesn't work either

[edgy marsh]

yeah

[pine temple]

also w10 is eol

don't use it

[edgy marsh]

we know

[sullen mantle]

I used Windows XP for a while and had no issues. Win10 will be fine

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle don't use vmware use virt-manager

[edgy marsh]

qemu wasn't working well

[sullen mantle]

my system is very fucked

[edgy marsh]

yeah

[sullen mantle]

my system must be fucked then

[pine temple]

did you enable virt-manager?

[sullen mantle]

Plus, with Arch I keep getting graphical bugs despite having the correct drivers installed and Windows doesn't do that. I just need something very lightweight on my computer that isn't going to fuck it

[sullen mantle]

si

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle photo please

[edgy marsh]

is your internet unstable

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle remove all of that

[edgy marsh]

you entered the wrong one, select 7

[pine temple]

pacman -S qemu-base virt-manager

[sullen mantle]

No it's very stable. I get 50MB/S

[edgy marsh]

okay

[edgy marsh]

qemu literally doesnt wrok for him

[pine temple]

sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd.service libvirtd.socket

[sullen mantle]

I have qemu enabled in virtmanager

[pine temple]

then open vm-manager

[edgy marsh]

yay -S vmware-workstation and select 7

[pine temple]

that won't work either

[sullen mantle]

I mean, QEMU loads the iso but there was a weird image at the start

I think I downloaded a fake iso, from microsoft.com

[edgy marsh]

that aint possible

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle you needed to install a few packages and configure the vm before pressing install

@sullen mantle why are you making the rufus iso?

[edgy marsh]

his system is fucked and he needs an os thatll work

[pine temple]

hold on, I can help fix it

[sullen mantle]

uh

so

my pc just crashed

[edgy marsh]

uhhh is it booting

[sullen mantle]

and i had to restart it

well yea

because that's how im talking to you

[edgy marsh]

oh good

[sullen mantle]

When I ran the ISO in QEMU my computer lagged out then it crashed instantly after

[edgy marsh]

what is ur pc specs?

[pine temple]

@edgy marsh how is your computer unstable?

[edgy marsh]

wrong person

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle how is your computer unstable?

[edgy marsh]

yea idk if thats adequate for vms

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle

[sullen mantle]

it's old

[pine temple]

so?

[sullen mantle]

It's a Dell OptiPlex 7010 SFF from 13 years ago meant for Windows 7

[edgy marsh]

arch or a lightweight distro is gonna be the best on that hardware

[pine temple]

so?

[sullen mantle]

the fuck u mean "so?"?

its old

[pine temple]

why does that matter?

[edgy marsh]

bc it makes it slow?

[pine temple]

I can make it faster

[sullen mantle]

That's like asking a dead man why he can't work

"Why can't you work?"
no response
"Well why does it matter he's dead?"

[pine temple]

I can revive them

[sullen mantle]

no comment

My computer just has very specific needs but also needs the right drivers

[pine temple]

just install mesa-amber

[sullen mantle]

It's Intel, not AMD

[pine temple]

intel uses mesa

[sullen mantle]

Well at least i don't have screen tearing anymore

[pine temple]

now we can fix the bigger problem

[sullen mantle]

With 4 GB of DDR3 doing anything on this is hard

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle pacman -Qm | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

pacman -Q | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

[sullen mantle]

i don't trust that command

[pine temple]

this tells me what packages you have installed

[sullen mantle]

i swear if my pc borks

[pine temple]

this is mine https://0x0.st/87QK.txt

[sullen mantle]

http://0x0.st/87QP.txt

[pine temple]

and the other one please

[sullen mantle]

http://0x0.st/87QZ.txt

[pine temple]

I can make it lighter

remove the debug packages

[sullen mantle]

the what?

[pine temple]

add a ! to debug packages in your makepkg.conf https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/blob/main/makepkg.conf#L100

this makes it so you can't install debug packages

[sullen mantle]

what're debug packages?

[pine temple]

you have debug packages installed

maltego-debug is a debug package

you don't need those debug packages

[sullen mantle]

i did vim makepkg.conf and it did nothing

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle photo please

why do you need recon-ng?

[sullen mantle]

I dunno it probably came with something

[pine temple]

remove it

also spiderfoot

[pine temple]

nano /etc/makepkg.conf

remove woeusb-ng

[sullen mantle]

command not found

[pine temple]

and don't use the git version of yay

[sullen mantle]

I don't have nano

[pine temple]

pacman -S nano

[pine temple]

then do this

[sullen mantle]

ok im there

[pine temple]

go to line 98

and add a ! to debug

then save and quit

then sudo pacman -Qttdq | sudo pacman -Rns -

this removes orphan packages

as those debug packages or orphans

[sullen mantle]

it wont let me write it

[pine temple]

you need to sudo nano it

also I can make it even lighter by moving from a de to a wm

[sullen mantle]

I hate the window managers, they're a lot of work

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle this one is simple and easy to use

it's not hyprland

it's Enlightenment

@sullen mantle

[sullen mantle]

cngbfxj
xdrtfc

i'm tired right now

give me a minute

[pine temple]

ok

[sullen mantle]

arch is taking up over 300MB idle, and antiX uses ~250MB idle w/ everything installed, and a bit lower with nothing but the essentials. It's Debian based, but good enough and doesn't get security issues because of the AUR.

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle hold on

using a wm with the bare minimal packages can fix that on arch

[sullen mantle]

Look, I either reinstall Arch to get the bare minimum with a shitty WM or go to another distro

[pine temple]

you don't need to reinstall to fix it

just pacman -Rns xfce4

and pacman -S enlightenment

[sullen mantle]

I'm using XFCE right now, so it doens't let me

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle photo please

[high jacinth]

ralsei cube

[sullen mantle]

Well, I'm in the enlightenment thing

all of the text is really fucking small tho

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle now pacman -Rns xfce4

[pine temple]

you can change that in the settings

did you pick the x11 or wayland version?

[sullen mantle]

it didn't give me an option for either

[pine temple]

how did you login into enlightenment?

[sullen mantle]

How?

[sullen mantle]

I typed in my user password, went through set up and done

[pine temple]

settings -> fonts

[sullen mantle]

yeah

the font it bigger but the damn discord stuff in miniscule

uh huh

i did that

i made it bigger

I can't see what i'm typnig

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle reboot discord in order for it to take effect

[sullen mantle]

how

[pine temple]

close and reopen it

[sullen mantle]

Do you see how tiny it is?! I even rebooted Discord

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle pick a new font to make big

[sullen mantle]

yeah i'm not fucking using this. My CPU is dying

I'm back in XFCE and it's no lag at all

[pine temple]

@sullen mantle remove those packages you don't need