If you have 0B’s total enabled, not to be confused with used, then I’d recommend either enabling zswap or zram. zram compresses only ram and zswap compresses ram and then moves it to the drive as needed. Enabling one will improve your experience in general as currently your system just will try to shove everything in ram until it is full and need hard reset.

See [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#Swap_file](Arch Wiki Swap) and [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap](Arch Wiki zSwap)

It will still be faster than hitting the drives, whether that is a hard drive or nvme ssd. The compression code is highly optimized.

What “background services” breaks down to is things like the desktop. In the system monitor you can see a breakdown of what that is if you click on “show details sidebar” in top right. On my system for instance, plasmashell and kwin combined(the interface) is taking 700mb. Without the info from the sidebar it is harder to give advice.

Baloo is used for searching you system for files including contents. You can disable it if it isn’t something you’d use, limit it to certain directories or limit it to file names only. It will be under search in settings.

Edit: Also check how much swap you have enabled in the system monitor overview. You might look into turning on zram support if it isn’t already enabled which will compress ram as needed which might improve your experience.

Do you have any usb devices or other hardware attached? Do you have any background scripts running? Try running without those installed. if possible. If you copied your home directory, try a clean user.

For example, I have an external light meter I made from instructions online and the script for it was accessing the brightness of the monitor with ddcutil and causing a similar spike. I rewrote it to use kscreen-doctor.

I installed Linux on a G5 quad. I would expect the iMac to work as well. I think I installed Alpine, but I haven’t started it up in a while. Produces a lot of heat. You’ll need the big endian PPC version btw.

Edit: That screen is not a G5. Linux will run just fine on the Intel macs which that screen is showing.

The drives should work fine, for standard blurays and self wrote disks. There are a mature cli utilities and often the gui version is just a frontend for the cli tools. It is just an optical drive otherwise.

Arch Linux Wiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray

Check out makemkv, which has a cli option, and their forum for compatibility for 4K blurays. Newer bluray drives have additional protection for 4K if I understood correctly.

Yeah and you’d think GNU would like the recognition too.

I’d rather have a little demon than a simp

Couldn’t they just call it IMP(Image Manipulation Program)?

I have heard it used that way in the last decade I think

The feature you are going to want to look for is USB Attached SCSI (UAS) or USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP) support.

Try opening a new terminal. If the commands don’t work, type “export PATH=/usr/bin” not quotes and try again and fix what you did.

I must have been tired when I did that math. I’d be happy with the year as well. Just don’t use the firefox/chrome model.

If semantic versioning is:

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes

then I think that would be on like 3.77.0 or something right now. Not terrible, but honestly prefer it to be like the major upped in the new year every year. It is about 43 years old,so 43.x in 2026. Would be easier to know how old a kernel release is without looking it up.

I’d rather have screws than those clip-in covers that break or having to pry the device open like some brands of devices, ie most of the tech industry. Somewhere in the middle. Quickly being able to replace a battery easily a plus don’t get me wrong, but I don’t want it getting torn up in the process one either extreme. I am ok with it may take several minutes, but not with “can I buff this out” or “where is the tape/glue”.

dead.letter is email draft in some clients when they crash.

I don’t know. Most of the increase above appears to be win 10 users. Win 10 lost 1.09% and the percentage gain was close to evenly split between linux and win11 with a little going to MacOS.

I could see a bunch of people paying $15 to keep win 10 going , but not that much.

Awesome. Will be interesting to see the November December numbers with unpaid Win10 support ending.

I wonder why colorizing manpages like this is not default in most distros. That seems like an obvious thing to configure for end user’s quality of life.

My best guess would be that each terminal could display differently or be buggy and a “lowest common denominator” approach where it work everywhere. I know blue tends to be to dark unless I change the color to a lighter shade and the font could make a difference as well.

No

I wasn’t intending to come off confrontational, I apologize for that. I was looking at this from it sounding like you wanted any command on a system. I did find that you can colorize man. see script below for an example. As for busybox, it is a small project, so colorizing just it would be relatively easy and easy to add as a patch to a system. Not sure if that would upstream though as it is intended to work well on low memory systems among others.

#!/bin/bash

export PAGER="less -r"
export GROFF_NO_SGR=1
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'

man ls

Edit: it does seem that this man colorization is disabled by default.

Edit2: “export MANROFFOPT=-c” can replace “export GROFF_NO_SGR=1” to limit just man.

Edit3: source Arch Linux bbs