So my Windows 10 installation has somehow began to take multiple attempts to boot, possibly because of a failing card reader or the fact that it left the bootloader on the old drive with a previous broken Windows XP installation and now it can't cope with the consequences of such decision I had no opportunity to overturn. So I now use Manjaro Cinnamon which I recently installed on a long unused M.2 nVME SSD, reserved for this exact purpose. After those 2 years at CTU and countless Linux videos on YouTube, I observe my knowledge about *NIX systems is way better than it used to be way back when I only used Knoppix 6 as a game library and wondered why I can't get anything cool on openSUSE 11 (infamous RPM dependency hell), to the extent I distro-hopped to LXLE since CTU uses Debianoids. Since Arch-based distros have overtaken RPM-based distros and UE is full of Windows boomers anyway, I decided to try a distro with the praised Arch package system, and I found that Manjaro has a community Cinnamon edition, which looks just like Linux Mint, a perfect distro for when another family member wants to borrow my PC. Cinnamon is by no means a lightweight DE, even though it makes the system consume only 800 MB on boot, whereas Win10 immediately "nationalizes" 2 GB. Not that it would really matter with my 32 GB in 4-channel.
So far the main source of annoyance is that some AUR packages are built from source and some just don't, including my childhood arithmetic practice game tuxmath, often due to linkage errors. Also due to soystemd most of old system-level tutorials don't work.
There are quite some alias tips on the internet, so I'll put here only those of my own devising, which are reasonably complex.
# MS-DOS habits
alias dir="lsd -la"
There are quite some alias tips on the internet, so I'll put here only those of my own devising, which are reasonably complex.
# MS-DOS habits
alias dir="lsd -la"
alias md="mkdir -p"
alias rd="rmdir -p"
alias rd="rmdir -p"
alias cls="clear"
# directories
alias lols="ls -laF | lolcat"
alias yeet="rm -rf"
# package management
alias pas="pacaur -S"
alias pms="sudo pacman -S"
alias update="sudo pacaur -Syu && sudo pacaur -Rcc $(pacaur -Qdtq) && yes | sudo pacaur -Scc"
alias bigpack="pacman -Qi | awk '/^Name/{name=\$3} /^Installed Size/{print \$4\$5, name}' | sort -hr | head -25 | lolcat"
alias yeet="rm -rf"
function cl {
cd '$@' && lsd
}
cd '$@' && lsd
}
# package management
alias pas="pacaur -S"
alias pms="sudo pacman -S"
alias update="sudo pacaur -Syu && sudo pacaur -Rcc $(pacaur -Qdtq) && yes | sudo pacaur -Scc"
alias bigpack="pacman -Qi | awk '/^Name/{name=\$3} /^Installed Size/{print \$4\$5, name}' | sort -hr | head -25 | lolcat"
# rainbow fun gadgets
alias pslol="watch -p -n 1 'ps aux | sort -nr -k 6' | lolcat"
alias loltop="top -d 1 | lolcat"
alias pslol="watch -p -n 1 'ps aux | sort -nr -k 6' | lolcat"
alias loltop="top -d 1 | lolcat"
alias clock="watch -t -p -n 1 'date +%T\ %y-%m-%d | figlet -w 81 -f bigmono12 | sed '1,2d' | sed '14,16d'' | lolcat"
alias clock2="watch -c -t -p -n 1 'date +%T%y-%m-%d | toilet -w 81 -f bigmono12 --gay | sed '1,2d' | sed '14,16d''"
alias loltrix="cmatrix -a | lolcat"
alias loltrix="cmatrix -a | lolcat"
bigpack
Originally found in a comment section of a DistoTube "let's share your .bashrc" video, albeit with a useless heading and padding. Now for a hall of shame of the most bloated packages on my system:
5,00GiB cuda 3,46GiB thedarkmod-bin 1924,87MiB nerd-fonts-complete 1324,82MiB texlive-fontsextra 1055,07MiB redeclipse-bin 951,86MiB wine 803,62MiB rstudio-desktop-bin 686,44MiB netbeans 638,85MiB pioneer 621,01MiB sauerbraten-data 561,95MiB linux-firmware 537,27MiB radium 460,07MiB racket 453,54MiB widelands-git 411,62MiB texlive-core 409,85MiB libreoffice-still 403,51MiB pycharm-community-edition 402,80MiB openarena 397,29MiB rust 371,15MiB vulkan-validation-layers 361,35MiB unknown-horizons-git 321,93MiB noto-fonts-extra 321,64MiB valgrind 294,43MiB noto-fonts-cjk 292,40MiB nvidia-440xx-utils
pslol
So I was wondering whether all the *tops are bloat, so I synthesized a very minimalist version of top with watch and ps. While I was at it, I also added some rainbow. Any section that was updated will be in a different color, which unexpectedly adds to readability. One could possibly prepend output from free to give the overall memory stats. I would consider this to be on the same level as replacing head with sed '11q'.
Every 1,0s: ps aux | sort -nr -k 6 Zetor: Thu Aug 20 20:08:00 2020
j637man 125071 86.9 9.5 16590500 3134436 ? Sl 16:33 186:46 /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/jre/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/hom
j637man 6971 3.4 1.9 1050976 626956 ? Sl 12:19 16:01 /usr/bin/pamac-manager --gapplication-service
j637man 6714 3.2 1.2 3782600 393844 ? Sl 12:17 15:15 /opt/minecraft-launcher/minecraft-launcher
j637man 1591 7.9 1.1 3913264 386004 ? Sl 11:24 41:48 cinnamon --replace
j637man 441231 9.6 0.8 5075424 289884 ? Sl 18:35 8:57 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1
j637man 390342 1.9 0.7 795380 255420 ? SLl 18:28 1:53 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --ppapi-flash-version=32.0.0.403 --ppa
root 1007 2.5 0.7 600372 239984 tty7 Ss+ 11:24 13:08 /usr/lib/Xorg :0 -seat seat0 -auth /run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten
j637man 390449 2.2 0.6 677752 197792 ? Sl 18:28 2:16 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handl
j637man 6708 0.0 0.4 453700 157876 ? Sl 12:17 0:26 krusader -qwindowtitle Krusader
j637man 125061 0.4 0.4 2706832 146512 ? Sl 16:33 1:01 /opt/minecraft-launcher/minecraft-launcher --type=renderer --no-s
j637man 6741 0.0 0.4 1100748 140096 ? Sl 12:17 0:27 /opt/minecraft-launcher/minecraft-launcher --type=gpu-process --n
j637man 390546 0.1 0.4 15306488 139256 ? Sl 18:28 0:08 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1
j637man 390451 0.1 0.4 443472 134256 ? SLl 18:28 0:08 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=utility --utility-sub-type=netw
j637man 6805 0.2 0.3 2667416 129236 ? Sl 12:17 1:01 /opt/minecraft-launcher/minecraft-launcher --type=renderer --no-s
j637man 663905 0.1 0.3 4735916 114568 ? Sl 19:48 0:02 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1
j637man 390363 0.0 0.3 363280 112952 ? S 18:28 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=zygote --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/
j637man 390362 0.0 0.3 363280 112532 ? S 18:28 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=zygote --no-zygote-sandbox --pp
j637man 487384 0.0 0.3 4717624 107060 ? Sl 18:41 0:03 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1
j637man 110390 0.2 0.3 935012 105004 ? Sl 16:28 0:32 /usr/bin/qmmp /run/media/j637man/AUDIO/MUSIC/_OGG/ALESTORM - Mexi
j637man 112093 0.0 0.3 628040 100596 ? Sl 16:30 0:09 xed
j637man 390584 0.0 0.2 4701656 97864 ? Sl 18:28 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1
j637man 1634 0.0 0.2 180232 87612 ? Sl 11:24 0:11 fcitx5
j637man 1395 0.0 0.2 561672 86964 ? Sl 11:24 0:00 /usr/lib/cinnamon-settings-daemon/csd-background
root 6978 0.0 0.2 781488 72212 ? Ssl 12:19 0:17 /usr/bin/pamac-daemon
j637man 322713 0.3 0.2 712524 69976 ? Sl 18:16 0:26 nemo /home/j637man
j637man 1625 0.0 0.1 496132 64468 ? Sl 11:24 0:06 nemo-desktop
j637man 325304 0.2 0.1 488392 60824 ? Ssl 18:17 0:16 /usr/lib/gnome-terminal-server
j637man 1633 0.0 0.1 480812 56956 ? Sl 11:24 0:02 nm-applet
j637man 664016 0.0 0.1 4668616 56040 ? Sl 19:49 0:00 /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --type=renderer --field-trial-handle=1
j637man 1642 0.0 0.1 400120 55556 ? Sl 11:24 0:01 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
j637man 1628 0.0 0.1 261276 54440 ? Sl 11:24 0:01 pamac-tray
j637man 6722 0.0 0.1 248088 53748 ? S 12:17 0:00 /opt/minecraft-launcher/minecraft-launcher --type=zygote --no-san
j637man 1612 0.0 0.1 395904 52080 ? Sl 11:24 0:01 /usr/lib/xapps/sn-watcher/xapp-sn-watcher
j637man 1788 0.0 0.1 466248 48868 ? Sl 11:24 0:03 cinnamon-screensaver
j637man 1636 0.0 0.1 257504 46828 ? Sl 11:24 0:06 msm_notifier
j637man 1632 0.5 0.1 351256 40768 ? Sl 11:24 3:01 /usr/lib/caribou/caribou
j637man 1400 0.0 0.1 571424 39364 ? Sl 11:24 0:00 /usr/lib/cinnamon-settings-daemon/csd-power
j637man 1281 0.0 0.1 408984 36872 ? Ssl 11:24 0:00 cinnamon-session --session cinnamon
j637man 1637 0.0 0.1 277168 36768 ? Sl 11:24 0:00 cinnamon-killer-daemon
j637man 1387 0.0 0.1 276028 35980 ? Sl 11:24 0:00 /usr/lib/cinnamon-settings-daemon/csd-xsettings
j637man 1588 0.0 0.1 202164 35292 ? Sl 11:24 0:00 cinnamon-launcher
clock
Very awesome on the fullscreen terminals, which you can invoke by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 to F6. F7 is your graphical desktop and F1 is the by default silenced boot log. The default dimensions are 80x30, so I had to delete some padding lines with sed. Also you may not agree with my choice of YY-MM-DD date format, maybe you use DD.MM.YY or MM/DD/YY, so feel free to shuffle the fields around to fit your customs.
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