What system configurations do you change?
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Hi, I've tried to learn as much as I can to make my experience with GNU/Linux the best. So there are a few things I change in my system to make it go faster.
For example I always change swappiness to 1 in SSD and to 10 in HDD.
Swappiness value controls the Linux kernel’s tendency to swap – that is, move information out of RAM and onto the swap file on the disk. It accepts a value between 0 and 100.
0: The kernel will avoid swapping process out of physical memory and onto the swap partition for as long as possible.
100: The kernel will aggressively swap processes out of physical memory and onto the swap partition as soon as possible.
As RAM is much faster than drives I prefer to have the less so my experience is faster. This doesn't apply to servers or computers with little RAM.
But in general it makes my experience faster.
I also tweak Firefox (or libre version as Iceweasel, Icecat or Abrowser) to don't save cache.
I've always installed preload but I don't really know if I have a real boost. But I still think it works better than nothing.
On my laptop I always install TLP.
You can read a bit more about how to do those things here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks
https://www.howtogeek.com/115797/6-ways-to-speed-up-ubuntu/
https://itsfoss.com/speed-up-ubuntu-1310/
This are a few things I change in my system, what things do you do?
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>What system configurations do you change?
I run Debian Xfce, which by itself, meaning by default, is very frugal and looking like crap and the amount of 'things' I need to change is very long indeed. Let's say it used to take an hour when I first started with debianino but now it would take me minimum 4 hrs.. But that again is exactly one of the main reasons I love Debian so much, the philosophy of 'we give you the bare system with no bloat or customization and you make it as you better like it' :)
Also in this process of customization you get to know a lot about you distro, it's entertaining.
noice tread, but let's have some porn too. Me, same old, I know I'm boring, but it's so sweet :P
Could you tell me what the clock/RAM/CPU/net thing in the top-right corner of the screen is called?
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Sure. The package is 'conky'. It requires a .conkyrc file in your /home. I'll attach mine so you can modify it to your liking.
cheers
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Thanks, Supertramp.
>'we give you the bare system with no bloat or customization and you make it as you better like it' :)
I didn't know Debian was using Parabola as it's base :') :D
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Hmm, I was distracted and I think I missed the point, I thought it was more about system customization, not about 'preload' and so on.
I like my Debian as it is by default as far as RAM, cache, swap (it never gets used, always at 0).. The developers seem to do a pretty nice work out of it. The system is snappy and smooth on a 10 yr old laptop :P
Also wanted to point out that the above mentioned long customization time is something you do only once and then backup your /home, so it's definitely worth it, especially putting some time to secure a little bit more your distro. Do it once and forget it.
You really like Debian my friend :)
Your wallpaper is beautiful.
Is not necessarily about preload or swappiness, those are just the things I do :)
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tx :)
I made it using an image that unfortunately has no license attached (hence disgustingly proprietary :/ ) but if u want to use it I posted it on diaspora a few months ago, you will easily find it under #wallpaper
I use a german keyboard layout and always map the "escape" key on the "capslock" key, since I use vim and this comes very handy. The rest of my tuning goes basically to my vimrc and the related plugins, also I make my i3 wm behave more like vim, I install zsh configure it, I set a nice wallpaper and then i'm about done.
Ps: I'm using Debian stable with only free repos enabled and carefully selected browser plugins.
Many people claim "optionally free is not enough", but I disagree.
Ohhh
I forgot about those :) I use a Dvorak Latin american keyboard.
I use i3wm automatic configuration to set keys.
As I use Emacs I shift Ctrl and Mayus.
In my .bashrc I just change for "history" to be 10,000 entries and recently I posted about “ls” but I've had this for a couple days.
I don't know any more ways to improve bash I don't use the terminal that much. I do as much as I can from Emacs.
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